How to use calmly in a sentence

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• There was a fire drill this morning. We had to leave the building calmly and go to the birch tree, our meeting point.From the entry fire drill
• Some prefer a double action because it seems more foolproof in the heat of the moment when someone might not be thinking calmly.From the entry double action
• Some prefer a double action gun because it seems more foolproof in the heat of the moment when someone might not be thinking calmly.From the entry in the heat of the moment
• “We'll let the experts decide that, shall we?” he said calmly.2021, Tracey Drew, Knitted and Knifed: (A Humorous & Heart-warming Cozy Mystery), Icon Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry knifed
• The Gopniks smiled calmly: this was all par for the course for them.2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The…. From the entry par for the course
• In bodyfulness, the psychosomatic organism becomes calmly alert without the intentionality of the conscious mind.2017, Jorge N. Ferrer, Participation and the Mystery: Transpersonal Essays in Psychology, Education, and Religion, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry bodyfulness
• “The dude's got a rainbow Mohawk with frosted tips,” my brother said calmly.2016, Haleigh Lovell, The Slam (A Romance). From the entry frosted tips
• She hopped out of the van, and waited calmly as Mr Gray approached.2013, Grace Banks, Sheena Blackhall, Aberdeenshire Folk Tales, The History Press, →ISBN. From the entry chucky
• They'd be screaming for offside and she'd say calmly, 'He couldn't have been.2012, Tony Bradman, Football Fever 3, →ISBN. From the entry on-side
• He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.2008 June 20, David Brooks, “The Two Obamas”, in New York Times. From the entry polysyllabically
• Howard watched his wife calmly pour herself a third glass of clamato juice.2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 10. From the entry clamato
• Kevin, one of the first buddies in Boston lies calmly, very thin in the casket.1988 February 14, Marea Murray, “Friction Between The Factions”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 11. From the entry flash
• Suddenly, God inserts a "Selah," a rest, that we might pause and calmly think of Him.1981, Millie Stamm, Be Still and Know, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry selah
• "That's a witch in the shape of a cat, isn't it?" "Ay," said Catweazle calmly.1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 80. From the entry fetch
• To my surprise he took our caustic remarks about the climate very calmly, even cheerfully.1952, Ursula Venables, Tempestuous Eden, page 147. From the entry ree
• “I am not of the neighbourhood,” said Mallow, calmly, “but the matter is irrelevant.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 11, page 163, ¶¶ 2–4. From the entry gewgaw
• (Kitty unpins her hat and sets it down calmly, patting her henna hair.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 489. From the entry whip off
• I urge you to weigh calmly, deliberately, as cool, level-headed Canadians, the evidence produced by the prosecution.1909, Ralph Connor, The Foreigner, chapter 7. From the entry level-headed
• Calmly, and again undismayed, the spider was industriously respinning in repair.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry undismayed
• She spoke in a consultant's sound byte fashion, which translates text into your head holistically, calmly, slowly, and full of quotations.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry holistically
• Shirley calmly looked into the trolley and said, “Oh for Christ’s sake – it’s just a pair of ginch!”2012 July 14, Sandi Bezanson-Chan, “Summer Jobs Series: Learning to handle 'ginch' in the hotel laundry”, in National Post. From the entry ginch
• Hericane responds by calmly snapping the monkey's right arm at the elbow with a jab of her finger.2012, Robert T. Jeschonek, Forced Betrayal. From the entry chimpette
• Your reasoning is artificially impaired, observed the logical part of him calmly, find a way to unimpair it.2010, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, page 894. From the entry unimpair
• Calmly, with none of the Heston-plays-Moses speaking style that Mr.2008 March 14, Clyde Haberman, “Plucked From Obscurity, They Also Serve Who Ascend by Fate”, in New York Times. From the entry microdetail
• Hadid’s décor, variously shunted around the stage) to look, calmly, at this bomblike view, as if to say “Oh la la!”2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times. From the entry bomblike
• He said calmly, "With you my dear.2005, Frank Bond Beaumier, Sex Cults and Other Phenomena, volume II, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry beaver eater
• After he goes to bones we calmly loot the body.1999 February 18, GHQOKC, “Macroing? I love to find macroers... And kill them!”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Usenet), archived…. From the entry macroer
• "Noooo," the clerk replied calmly, looking me in the eye.1994 May 1, Casper V. Klauscher, “No Place to Go”, in Detroit Free Press, page 8. From the entry potty dance
• "Go on back to the City, child," she said, very calmly, "and when you are close enough, farspeak the Council".1991, Margaret Ball, Flameweaver, page 23. From the entry farspeak
• "He is no wonderbeast at all," replied Salmo calmly.1988, Stories about animals, page 75. From the entry wonderbeast
• “Beshrew me,” I said, “you take it pretty calmly.”1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry beshrew
• Tamara calmly answered : “Kharasho !” (Good).1960–61, Moisheh Grosman, In the Enchanted Land: My Seven Years in Soviet Russia, Tel-Aviv: Rachel, page 122. From the entry Ukrainienne
• Calmly bright, all ills undreading, Emma wander'd by my side.1913, George Borrow, Romantic Ballads. From the entry undreading
• I passed by with a murmured greeting, and the old lady turned and looked at me—merely looked, calmly, unenquiringly, and without uttering a word.2016, John Banville, “Baggotonia”, in Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry unenquiringly
• James brought his hand away and immediately jumped at the sight of Cole standing in the raw, calmly passing the bag back to the inspector.2011, J. L. O'Faolain, The Thirteenth Child, page 88. From the entry in the raw
• Others had gone to the cellar but when the dukes continued to calmly sip their demi-tasses, Mary had decided she would, too.1992, Sybil Downing, Jane Valentine Barker, chapter 11, in Crown of Life: The Story of Mary Roberts Rinehart, Niwot, Colo.: Roberts…. From the entry demi-tasse
• Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.1980, David Madsen, Black Plume. From the entry weaving
• Instead, Bronson spoke calmly, asexually recalling quiet peace rather than ecstasy, and in a rhetorical tradition that was far more ministerlike than courtly.1970, The passion of Robert Bronson, page 168. From the entry ministerlike

Meaning of calmly

1. adverb In a calm manner; coolly.

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Questions about calmly in a sentence

How do you use calmly in a sentence?

Calmly is used as an adverb. For example: “There was a fire drill this morning. We had to leave the building calmly and go to the birch tree, our meeting point.”

What is a short sentence with calmly?

“He said calmly, "With you my dear.”

What does calmly mean?

Calmly means in a calm manner; coolly.