Used in a Sentence

properly

How to use properly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for properly.

Editorial note

Your job is to properly deal with issues that would annoy others.

Examples13
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

Meaning at a glance

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

adverb

in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

adverb

with reason or justice

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for properly.

adverb

in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

adverb

with reason or justice

Example sentences

1

Your job is to properly deal with issues that would annoy others.

2

I can't prove this, but I suspect that Bjarne would have discarded his own trash properly.

3

VCs, rather than properly competing, talk to each other and agree on who they like and who they don't.

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And in doing so, those files make their way into the cache and the Inactive Memory gets properly evicted.

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Compare to creating a .deb properly, which is, ahem, non-trivial.

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I believe that it is the most reasonable statement because he took time to look over the entire situation and gauge it properly.

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A lot of companiesincluding some of our partnersdidn't yet have their infrastructure in place to properly handle them.

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They seem to be trying to sell him on a rotten deal because they think it's just such a privilege to work on their golden idea that they don't need to compensate properly.

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I also point out to women when they're putting up with sexist behavior, because it's so ingrained in our culture that too few even recognize it properly.

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Furthermore, the discovery of life that can only be properly studied on Mars would provide a major boost to any colonization effort.

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Over the years that has repeatedly manifested as problems no one should ever expect a database engine to have if properly designed.

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From a post from Microsoft in 2011:First, in 2006 Google acquired YouTubeand since then it has put in place a growing number of technical measures to restrict competing search engines from properly accessing it for their search results.

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So any member of the population can take the public database and confirm that the arithmetic was done properly on the encrypted vote tallies, without figuring out what the actual votes were.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use properly in a sentence?

Your job is to properly deal with issues that would annoy others.

What does properly mean?

in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

What part of speech is properly?

properly is commonly used as adverb.