How to use smartly in a sentence

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• “This is no casual raid, which is more reason to fight smartly.2013, J. K. Barber (Jay and Katherine Barber), Spellbound, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry swordmistress
• FERDINAND: Sire, bend thou down thine aged frame And do thou smartly pluck it up again.2007, Michael Frayn, Collected Columns, page 46. From the entry misfinger
• “I look both ways, and if it’s all clear I walk smartly across.”1993, Ryan, Margaret, Jemima Sweet the police officer, Puffin, page 7. From the entry look both ways
• In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. . . .1985 June 3, Richard Schickel, “Cinema: Gliberated in Dreamland Fletch”, in Time. From the entry loose lip
• UNE is also very smartly made, polished, captivating, and cohesive, with no perceptible cinematic hamburger helper; there are no wasted words.2025 May 26, The New America, The New America 2012-Current, page 43. From the entry hamburger helper
• Rather smartly, DiCaprio chooses a character he hasn’t played before; a befuddled and dumb man who keeps getting himself in trouble.2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club. From the entry befuddled
• He tried hard, lifting Larry for a cross-buttock, but Larry grape-vined him smartly, and came to the ground safely.2022, Maurice Walsh, The Spanish Lady. From the entry grape-vine
• At my entrance, the Sergeant called them to attention, numbered them off smartly, and presented two Companies for my instruction.2014 March 3, Flora Johnston, War Classics: The Remarkable Memoir of Scottish Scholar Christina Keith on the Western Front, The History…. From the entry number
• They drew smartly enough and we set to.2014, Alan Burt Akers, Turmoil on Kregen, page 106. From the entry blade-woman
• The train staff were at least smartly dressed.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 147. From the entry double-breasted
• By serving tough, using effective downball placement, not giving easy freeballs and simply attacking smartly and in a tough manner.1998, The American Volleyball Coaches Association, Coaching Volleyball, page 34. From the entry freeball
• Before the doors were opened the security guards were warned to look out for "Greenpeace types," not smartly dressed business women.1989, Tom Rose, Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event, page 82. From the entry Greenpeace
• Smartly Styled Winter Outdoor Wear for Men and Boys.1948 April 8, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, page 5, column 6. From the entry one-stop shop
• Showing an unexpectedly fleet turn of foot, she ducked through to safety, smartly shutting the door in our faces just in time.2015, P. N. Elrod, Dance of Death, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry turn of foot
• With five minutes remaining Hennessey was down well to block another Vukcevic shot, while Gunter was smartly in to punt away the dangerous loose ball.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC. From the entry punt
• He must have taken off smartly at the high port as soon as he saw Elmer but I ran him down in the end.1981, Dan Davin, Selected stories. From the entry at the high port
• At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front.1920, Fritz August Voigt, Combed Out. From the entry dahn
• After-all it'd make for interesting mechanical plays from a marine just negating your abilities as a predator and forcing you to play smartly to outcun this worthy foe.2016 September 9, Sarah_U., “Archived copy”, in CM-SS13 Forums (forum), archived from the original on 31 Jul 2026. From the entry outcun
• If you scoop a stickful up and then tap the stick smartly on the edge of the pot, most of it will fall off the stick.1985, Ian J. Kirby, Woodworking - Volume 1, page 59. From the entry stickful
• Lim from Penang, Anglicanly elegant, climbing into the Hillman that the firm used on this side of the peninsula, a Malay driver closing the door smartly after him.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 597. From the entry Anglicanly
• The down grade would give her a start, and then, if Mitchell got his reverser over smartly, he might catch her on the right angle, and she would come back.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53. From the entry reverser
• Therefore, why not wait in ambush for Conrad behind the door, and when he entered bring down a chair, or one of the decrepit pictures, smartly on to his head.1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry ambush
• I gaze in an awed way at those upon Broadway, Or Grand Street's assemblage of pearls, Those smartly garbed, natty, vivaciously chatty, Deliciously prettified, Silly or wittified, Patently citified Girls.1919, Life - Volume 74, Issue 2, page 1007. From the entry wittified
• But I noticed, also, whenever one, with a show of fight, tried to break past, that her eyes glinted and showed bright, and she rapped it smartly with her club.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry rap

Meaning of smartly

1. adverb With a fine or fashionable appearance.
2. adverb Quickly.
3. adverb Intelligently.

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Questions about smartly in a sentence

How do you use smartly in a sentence?

Smartly is used as an adverb. For example: ““This is no casual raid, which is more reason to fight smartly.”

What is a short sentence with smartly?

“The train staff were at least smartly dressed.”

What does smartly mean?

Smartly means with a fine or fashionable appearance.