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How to use sincerely in a sentence

21 example sentences · adverb

Sincerely means in a sincere or earnest manner; honestly. Example: “I sincerely hope they make it home safely.”

Examples of sincerely by meaning

adverbIn a sincere or earnest manner; honestly.

  • I sincerely hope they make it home safely.

More sentences with sincerely

  • I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won’t sue me.From the entry retract
  • I sincerely believe she should kiss us all, it's her princessly duty.2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money. From the entry princessly
  • I take a whiff of the most sincerely sinful cookies in the history of the world.2018 April 10, Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah, New York City: Random House, →ISBN. From the entry sinful
  • But it’s ironic, because I sincerely feel that I’m disattracted to another male.2000, Edward J. Tejirian, quoting Alex, “Emotional Paths”, in Male to Male: Sexual Feelings Across the Boundaries of Identity (Haworth Gay…. From the entry disattract
  • Stallers and procrastinators are indecisive people who sincerely want to help.1993, Richard S. Johnson, TQM: Leadership for the Quality Transformation, page 322. From the entry staller
  • To the powerful, the Caesares were flattering, deferential, sincerely devoted, self-sacrificing, loyal, eagerly serving.1965, Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry caesar
  • Mature women desired to give, provided, of course, you gave yourself first; frankly, honourably, sincerely, soddenly.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 148. From the entry soddenly
  • “He says,” replied Lord Peter, “that he believes Hannah to be a sincerely religious woman.1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison. From the entry rationalist
  • We sincerely regret that the statesmen in Britain and France are suffering from virulent germanophobia.1922, The Literary Digest - Volume 72, page 21. From the entry germanophobia
  • It’s sincerely not worth running through the entire litany again; simply consider The Post’s Fact Checker articles as an effective rejoinder.2020, The Washington Post. From the entry cruft
  • I sincerely hope we’re the only research group to lose Malaise traps to fire, hail, and flood in the same season.2020, Keith M Bayless, David K Yeates, “Australia Malaise trapping disaster update”, in Fly Times, volume 64. From the entry Malaise trap
  • The Author sincerely hopes that this volume will clear away some of the mists which surround Mexico at the present time.1917, Lewis Spence, “Preface”, in Mexico of the Mexicans, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, page iii. From the entry sundry
  • The head of the administration (the emperor in the past) would then issue an edict to sincerely repent and correct his wrongdoings.2020 March 24, Qing Zhu, Zhang Ming, “Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, China Faces Plague of Locusts”, in Minghui. From the entry pest
  • That thing is sincerely janked up.2004 December 4, Fayzalicious, “how much are you worth?”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet). From the entry janked up
  • The other may be that they sincerely believed it to be true, demonstrating an almost incredible lack of communication between themselves and their working engineers.1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle…. From the entry incredible
  • Sincerely hope nose doesn't fall off.1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli). From the entry leprosy
  • They also practice healing, and, during the course of their services, shout and dance as erotically and sincerely as savages around a jungle fire.1928, Wallace Henry Thurman, Negro Life in New York's Harlem, Chapter 7. From the entry erotically
  • “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.2022 August 1, Josh Butler, quoting Lidia Thorpe, “Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament”, in…. From the entry colonise
  • The current trend of increased acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community is distressing to these Christians who sincerely want to follow the Bible.2016, Janet Edmonds, The Bible Doesn’t Say That Homosexuality is a Sin. From the entry sinner
  • This is a person whose company you sincerely enjoy, and you choose to spend extra time both hanging out and hooking up with, but there is no spoken commitment involved.2005, Jennifer Klein, University of Pennsylvania. From the entry friend with benefits

Meaning of sincerely

  1. adverb In a sincere or earnest manner; honestly.
  2. adverb A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended by his or her name.

Full definition of sincerely

Questions about sincerely in a sentence

How do you use sincerely in a sentence?
Sincerely is used as an adverb. For example: “I sincerely hope they make it home safely.”
What is a short sentence with sincerely?
“Sincerely hope nose doesn't fall off.”
What does sincerely mean?
Sincerely means in a sincere or earnest manner; honestly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sincerely (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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