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How to use orally in a sentence

20 example sentences · adverb

Orally means by mouth. Example: “This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.”

Examples of orally by meaning

adverbBy mouth.

  • This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.
  • Pleasure your partner orally and manually.
  • If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death.1971 March 19, Richard Severo, “Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed”, in The New York...

adverbSpoken as opposed to written.

  • I took the make-up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.

More sentences with orally

  • She was able to take analgesia orally.From the entry analgesia
  • The Mishnah is believed by Jews to have been handed down orally from the prophet Moses, who received it on Mount Sinai with the written Torah.From the entry Mishnah
  • An oath sworn or affirmed orally is often given in call and response, where the official reads each line of the oath, and the affiant repeats the line back.From the entry call and response
  • Selections are read orally, and when a check on comprehension is required, they are transverbalized.1958, The Classical Outlook, page 37. From the entry transverbalize
  • Again and again, orally and in writing, we had asked for lubricating oil for the convoy.1938, Sven Hedin, translated by F. H. Lyon, The Silk Road, Boston: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., page 159. From the entry Suchow
  • The Ukrainian folk-song is cultivated orally by the blind singers (Kobsari) who accompany themselves on string instruments.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 185. From the entry accompany
  • In addition, PER has shown broad-spectrum antiepileptic activity when administered orally in preclinical animal models, including antimyoclonic activity.2015 August 8, Estevo Santamarina et al., “Use of perampanel in one case of super-refractory hypoxic myoclonic status: Case report”, in…. From the entry antimyoclonic
  • By contrast, the CETP inhibitors like evacetrapib are taken orally.2015 October 12, Andrew Pollack, “Eli Lilly Abandons Heart Disease Drug in Final Stage of Trials”, in New York Times. From the entry evacetrapib
  • The former had been told orally for centuries, appearing in written form during the Song as a scriptbook for storytellers.2015, William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel, World History, page 347. From the entry scriptbook
  • It is unlikely that such books existed in earlier times, as folk magic generally was passed orally through the generations.2008, Rosemary Guiley, The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry book of shadows
  • Controlled release (CR), modified release (MR), orally disintegrating tablets (ODT), and other innovative dosage forms are still of interest to both pharmaceutical producers and suppliers.2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American…. From the entry ODT
  • In minor burns involving less than 20% of the body surface, little resuscitative effort is required, and replacement fluids can usually be given orally.1981, Mary M. Wagner, Care of the Burned Injured Patient, page 29. From the entry resuscitative
  • The drug is usually given orally, but may be given by slow intramuscular or intravenous injection for the emergency treatment of the acute attack.1964 January 4, S. J. Hopkins, “Chemotherapy of Malaria: […]”, in The Chemist and Druggist, volume 181, number 4377, London: Allen &…. From the entry hydroxychloroquinoline
  • Hydroxychloroquine can be taken orally or by injection and is retained in the blood for a longer period of time than chloroquine.1951, Chemical Week, volume 69, page 28. From the entry hydroxychloroquine
  • Poetry was recited orally: futurists and their close literary allies, the imaginists, organized poetry soirées, open to the public, in Moscow cafés.1938, N. de Basily, Russia under Soviet Rule: Twenty Years of Bolshevik Experiment, London: George Allen & Unwin, Chapter 8, p. 427, note 3. From the entry imaginist
  • As a student of the history of religions I find fascinating the development of Moorish apocrypha and fissipation into subsects, each with different orally transmitted stories.2021, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam. From the entry fissipation

Meaning of orally

  1. adverb By mouth.
  2. adverb Spoken as opposed to written.

Full definition of orally

Questions about orally in a sentence

How do you use orally in a sentence?
Orally is used as an adverb. For example: “This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.”
What is a short sentence with orally?
“Pleasure your partner orally and manually.”
What does orally mean?
Orally means by mouth.

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