aptly
Example Sentences
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The nature of the threat posed by sand pits was put aptly by golf writer Aleck Bauer in 1913: “Bunkers are not intended to be pleasure grounds but places of repentance.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
It is a weird fight, "a carnival" as Steve Bunce aptly puts it.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
Your chaser is Alison McAlpine’s appealing, aptly titled “Perfectly a Strangeness,” sans humans, but starring three donkeys in an unnamed desert happening upon a cluster of hilltop observatories.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
One of Fern’s last columns, aptly titled “The End of the Summer Season,” was published on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
That poem, aptly titled “The Bells,” uses so many different words to describe the sounds made by bells that Mr. Poe evidently ran out and had to invent a new one: “tintinnabulation.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
