veritably
Example Sentences
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“No, Ma’am,” he veritably sang into the phone, “no pickup trucks from downtown this evening. Must be your lucky day!”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
The redoubtable Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski deploys a shimmering high range, veritably purring on the high, soft B-flats in the opening description of silvery birds singing — and it gets even better from there.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2016
Tel Aviv remains in the grip of the social protests that have come to define the season, that continue to be peaceable, polite and highly organized even as London veritably burns.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2011
It's a principle that has been veritably codified by the U.N. since 2005, when, remembering the horrors of Rwanda and Srebenica, heads of state and government in the U.N.
From Time ● Mar. 4, 2011
He felt that if once he went beyond the crown of the pass and took one step veritably down into the land of Mordor, that step would be irrevocable.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
