Successfully
[sək'sesfəlɪ] or [sək'sɛsfəli]
Definition
(adv.) with success; in a successful manner; 'she performed the surgery successfully'.
Typist: Perry--From WordNet
Examples
- The object is but a phase of the active end,--continuing the activity successfully. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Pretschi, have also successfully directed their attention to engraving the images of the camera, which has now obtained a high degree of perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The most vigorous males, or those which have most successfully struggled with their conditions of life, will generally leave most progeny. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The troops were then brought up and the assault successfully made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This one is reddish, as you see, so our Bacchanalia will turn out successfully. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Naturally enough, Mr. Davis wanted to escape, and would not reflect much how this should be accomplished provided it might be done successfully. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I organized a company and started cement-works which have now been running successfully for several years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This statement cannot be successfully controverted, for it has been abundantly verified after many years of costly litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These Spanish parties were perfectly satisfied we could put in an electric railway from Honda to Bogota successfully, and then they disappeared. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Shirley had trodden the plank successfully and fearlessly many a time before; Caroline had never yet dared to risk the transit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ammoniacal gas engines have been successfully invented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Of those substances, straw has been most successfully applied, and straw paper--excellent to write upon, though not bright in colour--is now made at very low prices. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Fanny felt that there must be a struggle in Edmund's cheerfulness, but it was delightful to see the effort so successfully made. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Puddling had been invented, but not successfully used before. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This device I executed successfully. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Two other passengers ran the blockade successfully last night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Carried through successfully, this invention of Prof. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Then, because he was dissatisfied with it, he stopped the sales and commenced a new line of investigation, which has recently culminated successfully. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Only humane laws can be successfully enforced; and they are the only ones really worth enforcing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Are successfully preserved for a length of time from decomposition or deterioration by means of salicylic acid. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The visit went off successfully, as was to have been expected. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This partnership continued eighteen years, successfully for us both. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- These answered as cochorns, and shells were successfully thrown from them into the trenches of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wireless messages have been successfully sent from aeroplanes, balloons and submarine vessels, and the naval vessels of all nations are kept in easy communication by this method. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Equipped with engine and machinery it steamed out of New York Harbour on the 27th day of March, 1819, and successfully reached Savannah, Georgia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It has been asserted that no vessel has yet been made to successfully fly unless made on the balloon principle, and Count Zeppelin's boat is on that principle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Phillipe Lebon, a French engineer, in 1799 and in 1801 anticipated in a theoretical way many ideas since successfully reduced to practice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A person boxing may dodge a particular blow successfully, but in such a way as to expose himself the next instant to a still harder blow. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Perry