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How to use correctly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Correctly means in a correct manner. Example: “Most people couldn't pronounce Daragh's name correctly, so he went by the name of "Dave" instead.”

Examples of correctly by meaning

adverbIn a correct manner.

  • Most people couldn't pronounce Daragh's name correctly, so he went by the name of "Dave" instead.
  • Bruhat rattled off a head-spinning 29 correctly spelled words in 90 seconds, including heautophany, nachschläge and puszta.2024 May 30, Aimee Ortiz and Alexandra E. Petri, “From 74th Place to Spelling Champion: One Boy’s Journey to Win the Scripps Bee”, in The...

More sentences with correctly

  • Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.From the entry level
  • The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.From the entry model
  • This story needs to be read vertically to be understood correctly.From the entry vertically
  • He documents everything he does, He can always prove it was done correctly.From the entry documents
  • For goodness' sake, I spelled that word correctly. I never knew I could do that.From the entry for goodness' sake
  • Use the HTML validator to check that your web page is correctly coded.From the entry validator
  • Don't mess with the controls. I just got everything adjusted correctly.From the entry mess with
  • Any doctor worth their salt should be able to correctly diagnose the illness.From the entry worth one's salt
  • This program works correctly on all well-formed formulas but it blows up on illegal input.From the entry well-formed formula
  • We'll try a dummy run with a small group first, to check that it works correctly.From the entry dummy run
  • You translated the words correctly, but the sentences are very Yoda-like. Perhaps you should review your grammar.From the entry Yoda
  • One-time pads have been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly.From the entry one-time pad
  • If having to bag the groceries correctly is more than you can handle, then this isn't the job for you.From the entry for
  • When he immigrated he changed his name to the anglicised form so the natives could pronounce it correctly.From the entry anglicised
  • For this strike, if your thumb is tucked correctly, you should hit the pressure point where their arm meets their shoulder.From the entry pressure point
  • The problem is that they didn't allow for the extra centimetre of overlap, so it didn't fit correctly.From the entry allow for
  • Let me see if I understood you correctly.From the entry let me see
  • The birdbath includes a small gnomon that acts as a sundial with markings on the basin if it's aligned correctly with the sun.From the entry sundial
  • Well, I checked everything and I think it's wired up correctly, so I guess all that's left is to turn it on. Here goes nothing!From the entry here goes nothing
  • The referees failed to spot the shirt pull from Jackson during play but after VAR review he was correctly awarded the DOGSO red card.From the entry DOGSO
  • It is sometimes assumed that the concepts of LUCA and progenote are the same by definition; more correctly, it is hypothesised that LUCA was a progenote.From the entry progenote
  • If the compiler was installed correctly, the dialog will show Microchip C18 as the active language toolsuite.2018, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Microcontrollers: High-Performance Systems and Programming, page 92. From the entry toolsuite
  • As we can all guess correctly, bitterness was obtained from plants like the ampalaya.2016, Micky Fenix, “What the early Filipinos ate at the time of the Spaniards”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer. From the entry ampalaya
  • The man in black asked Christopher for the secret passwords he'd been given and he answered correctly.2015, Lee Morgan, The Bones Would Do: Book Two of the Christopher Penrose Novels. From the entry heal
  • Players are then prompted to correctly guess the total number of coins held by all players.2015, Thomas Thurnell-Read, “Drinking Games”, in Scott C. Martin, editor, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and…. From the entry spoof
  • By simple resubstitution of the training data, the RF model correctly classified 99% of the grid cells.2015 July 30, “Landscape Analysis of Adult Florida Panther Habitat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry resubstitution
  • By contrast, Chad, 44, has no academic connection and is, correctly, a self-reported yod-dropper.2015, Stefan Dollinger, The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, Theory, Practice (IMPACT: Studies in Language and…. From the entry yod-dropper
  • There are many reasons why the results from melissopalynology may not be showing the nectar sources correctly.2013, Laïd Boukraâ, Honey in Traditional and Modern Medicine, page 68. From the entry melissopalynology
  • He told the police, correctly, that the monies did not belong to him.2013, Philip Bean, Drugs and Crime, page 161. From the entry smurfer
  • Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly.2009, Reg Keeland, translator, The Girl Who Played with Fire (translation of, 2006 (publication date), Stieg Larsson, Flickan som lekte…. From the entry Sicilian
  • In fact, this process is sometimes more correctly referred to as marquenching.2008, “Chapter 11: Heat Treatment of Steel”, in Flake C. Campbell, editor, Elements of Metallurgy and Engineering Alloys, ASM…. From the entry marquenching
  • Bryan Higgins was a "phlogistian", while William, correctly as it turned out, didn't believe in the concept.2007, Charles Mollan, “William Higgins (1763-1825)”, in It's Part of What We Are (Science and Irish Culture; 3), volume 1, Dublin: Royal…. From the entry phlogistian
  • Leading the antipreformationist camp was William Harvey, the first scientist to correctly describe the circulation of blood.2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 60. From the entry antipreformationist
  • Someone had to tell me when the paper was positioned correctly under the elmo (document camera).1998 April 21, Joan M. Whitworth, quoting Dr. Kern (pseudonymous), “Looking at Distance Learning through Both Ends of the Camera”, in…. From the entry elmo
  • So, there shouldn't be any need to "mana shuffle" your deck if you're actually shuffling correctly.1998 December 7, Andrew, “Re: Can we ever do something about manascrew?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet). From the entry mana shuffle
  • His Ultra's ran ok but I want to help him set them correctly.1996 September 12, “Snopolaris”, “ULTRA SETUP-----”, in rec.sport.snowmobiles (Usenet). From the entry mod man
  • If I read this correctly, Pop Clifton graduated from high school at the age of 15.1993 December 13, vandezande@inland.com [Joe V.], “Announcement”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025. From the entry whatta
  • Note that all correctly rounding arithmetics satisfy property A1, as do those with properly truncating addition.1992, Douglas M. Priest, On Properties of Floating Point Arithmetics, University of California, Berkeley, page 17. From the entry arithmetic

Meaning of correctly

  1. adverb In a correct manner.

Full definition of correctly

Questions about correctly in a sentence

How do you use correctly in a sentence?
Correctly is used as an adverb. For example: “Most people couldn't pronounce Daragh's name correctly, so he went by the name of "Dave" instead.”
What is a short sentence with correctly?
“Let me see if I understood you correctly.”
What does correctly mean?
Correctly means in a correct manner.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: correctly (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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