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How to use financially in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Financially means in terms of finance or money. Example: “He helped his daughter out financially, paying her rent and utilities, until she recovered from the accident.”

Examples of financially by meaning

adverbIn terms of finance or money.

  • He helped his daughter out financially, paying her rent and utilities, until she recovered from the accident.
  • As it looked to him, another six months at sea should turn the trick financially.1959, Garland Roark, Tales of the Caribbean, page 140

More sentences with financially

  • The carrier will be held financially responsible for any damage due to reckless handling.From the entry due to
  • A frustrated robbery may financially cripple the company or lead it to recover; a frustrated homicide or murder leaves the victim injured or wounded, not killed.From the entry frustrated
  • And yet, I became financially literate—not just in my personal life, but in running a small company.2026 April 22, Jillian Sanders, “The Danger of Surrendering Your Financial Independence in a Relationship”, in TIME, archived from the…. From the entry literate
  • Six years ago, I inherited a Labour Party that was politically, financially and morally bankrupt.2026 June 22, Keir Starmer, resignation speech. From the entry finished
  • He was responsible for the development of much of the UK's railway network but became financially overstretched.2021 December 29, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in Rail, number 947, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry penury
  • Financially, behaviourally and organisationally bonkers, this idea is gaining traction on the bien pensant left.2017 March 13, Will Hutton, “Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman – review”, in The Guardian. From the entry bien pensant
  • Flowers, who has the most riding on the deal — financially and reputationally.2007 October 7, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “The Money Game and the Mind Game at Sallie Mae”, in New York Times. From the entry reputationally
  • The Reagan Government was to be much more financially restrictive than the previous Carter team.1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 130. From the entry state-assisted
  • The new president of the Varityper division of the financially troubled AM International, Joseph A.1982 January 25, Leonard Sloane, “Business People: Challenge at Varityper”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Feb 2018. From the entry steady hand on the tiller
  • It is financially too tied to West Germany to exist by itself, he explained .1961 October 19, “Berliner Discusses ' Problem”, in Daily Collegian, State College, PA. From the entry tied
  • Especially if the personality B dreams up things that personality A makes practical, financially advantageous use of.1946, George O. Smith, “Trouble”, in Astounding Science-Fiction. From the entry schizophrenia
  • Within the group, we use ecthronyms for people who are financially or socially below us.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 150. From the entry ecthronym
  • The debtee also relies on the debtor to be financially successful themselves to pay the instalments of the debt as necessary.2022, Richard J. Britton, Romans and the Power of the Believer. From the entry debtee
  • It's about delivering what is acceptable financially - the private sector would love to gold-plate everything, but it can't afford it."2020 November 18, “Network News: Railway is years behind the curve”, in Rail, page 9. From the entry gold-plate
  • “We are not wealthy people and not financially sound.2020 May 23, Jessie Pang, Donny Kwok, Anne Marie Roantree, “Hong Kongers fret over Beijing's planned new security laws”, in Lincoln Feast…. From the entry Tai Hang
  • His 'kinsmanly care' advanced him neither socially nor financially.2014, Jessie Childs, God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England. From the entry splenish
  • While a boon to garret-living, financially struggling young musicians, the library has caught the attention of music publishers.2011 February 22, Daniel J. Wakin, “Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note”, in New York Times. From the entry garret
  • They may "defend" themselves individually, like trying to sabotage an acquaintance who is doing better financially, socially, etc.2010 February 10, “Re: Do economics and morals have anything in common?”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet), retrieved 29 Nov 2021. From the entry authoritah
  • They hadn't profited emotionally, or financially, or professionally.2004, Robert William Kubey, Creating television. From the entry Mouseketeer
  • It was the supergold card, his financially most potent.2001, M. David Detweiler, The Guide and the CEO, page 170. From the entry supergold
  • If you're a veggo, serving meat and being financially dependant on serving it is being complicit in the meat industry.1996 March 23, ET, “We are not all dole bludger thank you ACA”, in aus.tv (Usenet). From the entry veggo
  • Similarly in the many large parishes, the curates in the outlying chapelries became financially dependent on their congregations.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 59. From the entry chapelry
  • I think we may take it for granted that our friend Weldon is a bit up the pole financially.1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase. From the entry up the pole
  • Step up to the first fifty prosperous citiznes passing along Broadway and ask them if they have ever been broke—busted—financially zeroed.1916 August 25, Frank Condon, “Our Short Story: A Shorn Lamb”, in The Clydebank & Renfrew Press, number 2103, Clydebank, →OCLC, page 7…. From the entry nail-clipper
  • Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.2024 January 10, Jo Kaye, “Greater support for the railway family”, in Railway Magazine, number 1000, page 50. From the entry time off
  • Unlike Paramount which has been saddled with debt from launching streaming service Paramount+, Sony remains an arms dealer, and financially nimble studio.2024 July 8, Anthony D'Alessandro, “Sony’s Tom Rothman On Skydance-Paramount Deal, Calls David Ellison “A Very Capable Executive” – ‘Fly…. From the entry arms dealer
  • I’ve never been envious of the players who have gone on and done well for themselves on the football pitch and financially.2022 July 24, Susan Gray, quoting Tony Carr, “‘I trained Lampard and Ferdinand – but my best decision was starting a pension’”, in The…. From the entry off someone's hands
  • "And besides," Sophee Anne said, "financially speaking, Stella was worth way more to us all alive than dead, even with the coffin-rider sales.2020, Faith Hunter, Spells for the Dead, page 64. From the entry coffin rider
  • Most “conscious uncouplings” after 50 are initiated by financially stable women who are still working or have enough money to set out solo.2015, Lois Joy Johnson, The Woman's Wakeup: How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life, and Love After 50, Running Press, →ISBN. From the entry conscious uncoupling
  • These companies and corporations were often made up of partners who were socially and financially connected to one another through marriage relations and birth.2012, K. Candlin, The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815, Springer, →ISBN. From the entry transcolonial
  • If Laplace had been willing to become an abbé, his father might have helped him financially, and Laplace could have combined church and science.2011, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and…. From the entry abbé
  • Financially, the two New York teams have not asked for the sort of free ride at taxpayer expense that has been commonplace elsewhere.2006 April 9, “A Yankees Station in the Bronx”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jun 2009. From the entry free ride
  • Behind the trading company and the bank are the financially interconnected companies known as zaikai, many of which descended from pre-war zaibatsu oligopolists.1995, Lee Khoon Choy, Japan—Between Myth and Reality, Singapore; River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry zaikai
  • Riffed teachers are unlikely to return to teaching, for they often have found other challenging, financially rewarding work that they might otherwise never have tried.1987, Nathalie Jean Gehrke, On being a teacher, page 93. From the entry riffed
  • They are classified as “loans” because they involve traditional market-rate loans, but with one important additional feature: Their payments are guarantied by a financially powerful third party.2014, Michael Curley, Finance Policy for Renewable Energy and a Sustainable Environment, →ISBN. From the entry guaranty
  • Her father, Lu Shi-sheng, ran a medium-size shop in the city of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, and her mother Lu Huang-chin, had more children than she could financially support.2014, Jerome A. Cohen, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4. From the entry Taoyuan
  • Dunne's account of the eight-year creation of a financially successful film, which was essentially a mindless star-vehicle, reveals a philistinism in Hollywood that almost defies satire.2013, Kimball King, Hollywood on Stage: Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry. From the entry star-vehicle
  • People always told me that owning property was a big turn-on for many women – a sign that a bloke has got it going on financially.2005, Sean Dooley, Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time - A True Story about Birdwatching, page 62. From the entry got it going on

Meaning of financially

  1. adverb In terms of finance or money.

Full definition of financially

Questions about financially in a sentence

How do you use financially in a sentence?
Financially is used as an adverb. For example: “He helped his daughter out financially, paying her rent and utilities, until she recovered from the accident.”
What is a short sentence with financially?
“They hadn't profited emotionally, or financially, or professionally.”
What does financially mean?
Financially means in terms of finance or money.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: financially (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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