Used in a Sentence

casually

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for casually.

Editorial note

Whatever you can do to avoid being anywhere where anybody can walk past and casually interrupt you.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

In a casual manner.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of casually gathered in one view.

adverb

In a casual manner.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for casually.

adverb

In a casual manner.

Example sentences

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Whatever you can do to avoid being anywhere where anybody can walk past and casually interrupt you.

2

It casually went from 8 billion estimated in 1992 to 24 billion and it's still not open.

3

But if the test-suite can be run quickly and casually, it's value will increase tremendously.

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There can be huge costs (for all parties) to casually switching jobs, and most employees stay put longer than the training period.

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Especially if a candidate already has a job, and is just casually looking, there is no way they will spend the time.

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It turns out he just wanted something he could casually surf the web on and my mother could use to check her email.

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Some of this has come about because of how casually some csgo players have discussed how they load up on adderall just before matches.

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I'm certainly not going to fuck around with popping tabs out into individual windows and resizing them when casually consuming content.

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Would you be comfortable with people casually using the word?

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I was struck by how casually affectionate she was with her father, even at that age sitting on his lap and being held.

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On more than one occasion, I had people in front of their buildings casually spit towards me but always managing to just miss.

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I was lying with my wife next to the pool, casually watching.

Quote examples

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Allowing "clever" references like this continue to signal that it's A-OK to use these terms casually.

2

I especially love the bit where they say IndexedDB is better than WebSQL because it has better "developer aesthetics", as if anyone is actually casually coding against IndexedDB without using some sort of wrapper or compatibility layer.

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It's just that I've been at a few outreach events recently, and I talk to people casually a lot, and so many people read "organic" in a headline and think "signs of life" that it's obscene.

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Useful - it clarified some things about the proposed Unum format - but also written very casually, like "pop science" prose, which seems inappropriate - who would buy a book about a floating-point number format if they didn't want a dry, boring book full of technical details?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use casually in a sentence?

Whatever you can do to avoid being anywhere where anybody can walk past and casually interrupt you.

What does casually mean?

In a casual manner.

What part of speech is casually?

casually is commonly used as adverb.