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How to use positively in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Positively means in a positive manner. Example: “He approached the interview positively.”

Examples of positively by meaning

adverbIn a positive manner.

  • He approached the interview positively.
  • There’s nothing – not. one. thing. – that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDSers.2018 July 20, Chris Cillizza, “What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ – and do you have it?”, in CNN

adverbWith certainty.

  • I will positively be there at 8 a.m.
  • The carriage nearly overturned, and he saw her eyes blaze at him, and she positively hissed, “I suppose you are enjoying this?”1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company...

adverbAbsolutely; utterly.

  • There is positively nothing to do.1915, Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense, page 118
  • She talked and laughed and positively forgot until he had come in (just as she had imagined) that Pearl Fulton had not turned up.1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company...
  • "Positively do not open," reads the message under the cabinet in which Ed and Lorraine put the possessed Annabelle doll.2017 September 16, Hollywood, “Demonic possession, cries for help: Read the chilling true story behind the Conjuring’s creepy Annabelle...

adverbVery.

  • I had a positively wonderful time.
  • Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  • But the lengthy, heartfelt e-mails exchanged by the main characters in You’ve Got Mail (1998) seem positively Victorian in comparison to the messages sent on the average dating app today.2015, Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse””, in Vanity Fair

More sentences with positively

  • Generous to a fault, they positively rained gifts on all their friends.From the entry rain
  • My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.From the entry fulfill
  • The FM station two hundred miles away was receivable, but the audio was too scratchy to positively identify.From the entry scratchy
  • The decor positively breathes classical elegance.From the entry breathe
  • The previously unfazed dog was suddenly very fazed and absolutely, positively refused to cross.2019 October, Mackenzi Lee, The History of the World in Fifty Dogs, Abrams, →ISBN. From the entry do someone a frighten
  • Among such traits, propensity to inquilinism in termites is known to relate positively to colony size.2016 January 26, “Allometric Scaling of Patrolling Rate and Nest Volume in Constrictotermes cyphergaster Termites: Hints on the Settlement…. From the entry inquilinism
  • It has been shown that claspin positively affects the survival of cancer cells.2015 August 5, Catharina I. Delebinski et al., “A Natural Combination Extract of Viscum album L. Containing Both Triterpene Acids and…. From the entry claspin
  • Ripken could do it in six strides, which was positively Bob Beamonesque.2011, Curt Smith, A Talk in the Park. From the entry Beamonesque
  • Allosexual behavior was positively related to libido, and negatively related to positive and "premenstrual" emotional factors.2011 August, Susan G. Brown, Marites J. Calibuso, Amanda L. Roedl, “Women’s Sexuality, Well-Being, and the Menstrual Cycle: Methodological…. From the entry allosexual
  • Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later.2009 March, Byron Rempel, “Women's Ski Jumping Takes Aim at the Winter Olympics”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 21, number 1, page 17. From the entry Jurassic
  • A good link bait tool will create 'brand evangelists' — people who will talk positively about you.2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0. From the entry link bait
  • Even so, the orchestra endowed tuttis with a positively radiant glow.2008 February 19, Steve Smith, “Hispanic Classics Flavor a New York Debut”, in New York Times. From the entry tutti
  • With her copper skin and her golden hair, B.B. thought she looked positively lionesque.2008, HCJ Studios, MAMBO! A Conversation With The Gods. From the entry lionesque
  • But today's winning businesses are positively Gradgrindian in their pursuit of the truth.2006 November 13, “Winners must be facts-obsessed in pursuit for truth”, in Financial Times. From the entry Gradgrindian
  • The chapel and the Gothic Upper Dining Room, with its high, vaulted ceiling, were positively Hogwartsian.2006 January, Alex Shoumatoff, “A Private-School Affair”, in Vanity Fair, page 146, column 2. From the entry Hogwartsian
  • By contrast, the successive observations of pink noise tend to be positively correlated.2005, John G. Holden, Gauging the Fractal Dimension of Response Times from Cognitive Tasks. From the entry fractal dimension
  • And a wedding walk was so unique, so unconventional, so unexpected that it was positively Jobsian.2001, Alan Deutschman, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. From the entry Jobsian
  • While in general the male 'Imagists' had either never positively committed to Imagism per se (D.2001, Georgina Taylor, H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers, page 81. From the entry imagism
  • The Ministry of Education expects the teachers of history to espouse National Socialism positively.1976, Howard Paul Becker, German Youth: Bond or Free. From the entry Nazify
  • Today was Sunday, and Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord’s Day.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry corset
  • “Aunt Tibbie is so keen on saving souls,” he told us, “she is positively dangerous.1945, Robert W. Service, Ploughman of the Moon: An Adventure into Memory, New York: Dodd, Mead, Book 3, Chapter 8, p. 120. From the entry salvationary
  • The noise, the rush of air past our ears, was positively terrific.1927, Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle’s Garden, Part Four, Chapter 6. From the entry numb
  • Surely in a year or two's time this one couldn't be positively identified as stolen?'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry knock about
  • From the viewpoint of our low protein diet, gluten flour and protose are positively dangerous.1917, Anna Lindlahr, The Nature Cure Cook Book, 5th edition, The Nature Cure Publishing Co., page 273. From the entry protose
  • 'A pair of smoked spectacles will do it,' he said positively.1908, G. K. Chesterton, The Man who was Thursday. From the entry smoked
  • Labour needs to engage positively with the unions on wider policy issues, but not be in thrall with them.2022 November 16, Paul Salveson, “Labour and transport: the important role of the regions”, in RAIL, number 970, page 31. From the entry thrall
  • My only halfway serious critique is that elements of Cultic's positively scrunkly low-fi style don't quite do it for me.2022 October 12, Dominic Tarason, “Cultic might be the year's grungiest retro FPS”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023. From the entry scrunkly
  • For not only are computers as dumb as a billion marbles, they’re also positively Stradivarian in their delicacy.2015, Paul Ford, "What Is Code?", section 2.3, in Bloomberg Businessweek, June 11, 2015. From the entry Stradivarian
  • Citrullination is the post-translational conversion of peptidylarginine to peptidylcitrulline wherein the terminal positively charged amino group of the arginine is cleaved.2015 August 29, Stefan Reichert et al., “Association of levels of antibodies against citrullinated cyclic peptides and citrullinated…. From the entry peptidylcitrulline
  • The recombination spectra of the non-equilibrium ensemble exhibited new lines related to formation of free positively charged magnetoplasmarons and magnetotrions..2015, A. S. Zhuravlev, V. A. Kuznetsov, L. V. Kulik, V. E. Bisti, I. V. Kukushkin, “Magnetoplasmarons and magnetotrions in a…. From the entry magnetotrions

Meaning of positively

  1. adverb In a positive manner.
  2. adverb With certainty.
  3. adverb Absolutely; utterly.

Full definition of positively

Questions about positively in a sentence

How do you use positively in a sentence?
Positively is used as an adverb. For example: “He approached the interview positively.”
What is a short sentence with positively?
“He approached the interview positively.”
What does positively mean?
Positively means in a positive manner.

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