Used in a Sentence

personally

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for personally.

Editorial note

He sounds personally upset that the bigger VCs preferred China and India to Mexico.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Concerning oneself.

Meaning at a glance

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

adverb

Concerning oneself.

adverb

In a personal manner.

adverb

In person.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for personally.

adverb

Concerning oneself.

adverb

In a personal manner.

adverb

In person.

adverb

As a person.

Example sentences

1

He sounds personally upset that the bigger VCs preferred China and India to Mexico.

2

I personally think that making nil something else than an object on OO language wouldn't make much sense.

3

I personally like to get an intuitive understanding of how things work before delving into theory (maybe it is just me).

4

We just sent in our contributions, both from FC and personally.

5

The trend I'm personally seeing is that I have to spend more and more time going through bullshit posts to find something valuable.

6

An anecdote is not proof, but I personally went from hating my job to loving my job, while working for the same company and doing mostly the same work for the same pay.

7

If I personally had a breakthrough battery technology, everyone in the world would want to hear from me when we're raising series A.

8

I personally love Tweetdeck - and have managed to tame the newsfeed with lists etc - but it is still tiresome and inefficient.

9

A good applicant is interested in building top-of-the-line web applications, familiar with functional programming, and gets personally jazzed up by building software to make a difference in people's lives.

10

You can email me personally at jmc@bn.co.

11

I have personally had a hand in adding testing support to the listed network protocols and content types and have a lot of exposure working with them.

12

I'd personally like to see a startup at YC trying to figure out how to spread the YC model/ethos beyond Silicon Valley.

Quote examples

1

Personally, I would be wary accepting "free" credit that I may end up being on the hook for.

2

It is totally orthogonal to my skill set, so I won't be personally interested, but so cool: it is rare to see a confluence of "interesting," "philosophically important" and "remote" work outside of pure entrepreneurship.

Proper noun examples

1

Personally, that makes me lean towards teaching with Ruby or Python (probably Ruby, as I think it has more to teach).

2

Personally, I just can't stand Ruby, so my opinion will not be balanced.

3

Personally, I wouldn't say television has declined.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use personally in a sentence?

He sounds personally upset that the bigger VCs preferred China and India to Mexico.

What does personally mean?

Concerning oneself.

What part of speech is personally?

personally is commonly used as adverb.