properly
Definition:
1. In the right manner.
2. With reason or justice.
Use 'properly' in a sentence:
- 1. Diabetics cannot metabolize glucose properly.
- 2. All we have to do is to get the two pieces lined up properly.
- 3. Chewing properly is crucially important.
- 4. When muscles are exercised often and properly, they keep the arms firm and sinewy.
- 5. The application form is important. Sit down and write it out properly.
- 6. He was too drunk to articulate properly.
- 7. It is debatable whether or not the shareholders were ever properly compensated.
- 8. Make sure the letter is properly addressed.
- 9. But can elephants really make music properly? Yes, says Lair.
- 10. I do not doubt that the bank acted properly.
- 11. "I don't think a government has properly done it for about the past twenty-five years."—"I'd go along with that."
- 12. He suffered from poor eyesight and could no longer read properly.
- 13. Properly randomized studies are only now being completed.
- 14. He had usurped powers that properly belonged to parliament.
- 15. Your baby depends on you to look after yourself properly while you are pregnant.
- 16. Keeping food properly in fridge.
- 17. You acted perfectly properly in approaching me first.
- 18. One in four pupils leaving secondary school can't read or write properly.
- 19. Doing it properly makes considerable demands on our time.
- 20. The best clubs also offer personal trainers to help motivate and ensure that exercises are properly performed.
- 21. A city is like any product, it has to be packaged properly to be attractive to the consumer.
- 22. The television isn't working properly.
- 23. Drivers are urged to make sure that car engines are properly tuned.
- 24. This area is always tender to the touch if the intestines are not functioning properly.
- 25. The Victorians were the last people to invest properly in the railways.
- 26. This time I'll do it properly with a needle and thread.
- 27. The bone hasn't knitted together properly.
- 28. The nuts weren't properly tightened and the wheel came off.
- 29. There needs to be a properly informed public debate.
- 30. This allows the pair to mate properly and stops the hen from staying in the nest.
- 31. More than a quarter of seven-year-olds cannot add properly.
- 32. A properly fitting bra should never leave red marks.
- 33. The child was not able to speak, walk properly or control bodily functions.
- 34. When will these kids learn to behave properly?
- 35. I had never really learned to type properly.
- 36. I had never really learnt to type properly.
- 37. Whatever system you choose, it must be run in properly.
- 38. You're too thin. You're not eating properly.
- 39. How much money do we need to do the job properly?
- 40. She couldn't digest food properly.
- 41. Check the presentation. Get it properly laid out with a title page.
- 42. We've come to see you, so you could at least stand and greet us properly.
- 43. The child seat belt was not properly anchored to the car.
- 44. The subject is not, properly speaking, a science.
- 45. After several starts, she read the report properly.
- 46. Some families don't have the resources to feed themselves properly.