aptly
Example Sentences
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"It's a breakdown job," trainer Ben Davison aptly told him between rounds.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
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
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
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
The bird lady was aptly nicknamed; she resembled a crane, with her long, skinny legs and pointy beak nose.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
