aptly
Example Sentences
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When it came time to pick the bowling-alley surface for their new home, Ryane said, they both gravitated toward the aptly named hue America’s Pastime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Weapons star Amy Madigan, meanwhile, is nominated for the second time, a whopping 40 years after her first nomination, for the aptly named Twice in a Lifetime.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
And he went 14 for 16 at the line in the final frame, bringing his free-throw shooting total to a historic 36 for 43 from the charity stripe, so aptly named this game.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Twenty-five years ago this month, VH1 released an extremely loose TV movie adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, “A Christmas Carol,” aptly titled, “A Diva’s Christmas Carol.”
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
What originally was planned to be an angry riptide, one English newspaper aptly described now as “the gentle flood.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
