Explore Carefully through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cautiously or carelessly. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Carefully meaning
- Sorrowfully.
- With care; attentively, circumspectly.
- Conscientiously, painstakingly, fastidiously, meticulously
Synonyms of Carefully
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Using Carefully
- The main meaning on this page is: Sorrowfully. | With care; attentively, circumspectly. | Conscientiously, painstakingly, fastidiously, meticulously
- Useful related words include: cautiously, with kid gloves, carelessly, incautiously.
- Possible Dutch translations are: voorzichtig.
- In the example corpus, carefully often appears in combinations such as: to carefully, and carefully, carefully chosen.
Context around Carefully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Carefully
- In this selection, "carefully" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, letters, must, world, chosen, protected and worded stand out and add context to how "carefully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after probing carefully for the, against carefully executed attacks, carefully chosen, carefully consider and carefully crafted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "carefully" sits close to words such as mistake, overseas and iraq, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with carefully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After the quilt was smudged it was carefully wrapped around Harry. (11 words)
Accompanying musical pieces were carefully chosen to fit perfectly with the art. (12 words)
Against carefully executed attacks tailored to a specific company, mere attentiveness isn’t enough. (14 words)
After probing carefully for the opening half-hour, City finally opened the scoring on the half-hour mark when Doku played a slick one-two with Rodri on the edge of the box before guiding the ball home. (38 words)
In order to make the above example completely rigorous, one would have to carefully construct a Turing Machine, or λ-function, or carefully invoke recursion axioms, or at best, cleverly invoke various theorems of computability theory. (36 words)
Access Canberra said BCC had responded to its request to show cause why a controlled activity order should not be made, but the matter involved complex legal and factual issues which were being carefully considered. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s Pause For Thought, the former keyboardist said: ‘Valentine’s Day, roses and chocolates, dinner for two, a carefully chosen card, with a carefully worded message, awaiting.
Everyone is going to miss her carefully tending to her garden, the things she carefully sewed and her cooking; especially her homemade pizza, bread and pasta.
In order to make the above example completely rigorous, one would have to carefully construct a Turing Machine, or λ-function, or carefully invoke recursion axioms, or at best, cleverly invoke various theorems of computability theory.
A bundle of letters, carefully protected and kept organized by a familiar Swedish blue and yellow ribbon, holds center stage on my sister’s dining table.
Access Canberra said BCC had responded to its request to show cause why a controlled activity order should not be made, but the matter involved complex legal and factual issues which were being carefully considered.
Accompanying musical pieces were carefully chosen to fit perfectly with the art.
According to actor Will Sharpe, who portrays Ethan in season 2, every ambiguous moment is carefully calculated to engage the audience.
A chance encounter with a dashing Irish innkeeper upends an American woman's carefully planned trip to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on February 29.
Across more than 30 levels, players must carefully putt their ball towards the end goal, passing all sorts of unsettling but beautiful imagery along the way.
Adapted from the children’s classic brings a magnifying glass to our world, carefully studying its tiny details with Ghibli’s unique eye for animation.
Add in spreadable cheese in pea-sized lumps and stir carefully to avoid blending the cheese into the batter.
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After probing carefully for the opening half-hour, City finally opened the scoring on the half-hour mark when Doku played a slick one-two with Rodri on the edge of the box before guiding the ball home.
After some minutes, the pastor took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone.
After the Nutella mixture was made I took the springform tin out of the fridge and carefully smoothed the Nutella mixture over the base.
After the quilt was smudged it was carefully wrapped around Harry.
Against carefully executed attacks tailored to a specific company, mere attentiveness isn’t enough.
A hazmat team carefully removes barrels from an explosion site in Newburyport, Mass., Thursday, May 4, 2023.
All you need to train an AI with their carefully protected IP is a speaker and a cheap mic.
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Phrases with carefully
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with carefully
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to carefully 17×
- and carefully 10×
- carefully chosen 9×
- very carefully 8×
- carefully consider 8×
- carefully crafted 8×
- been carefully 7×
- by carefully 7×
- carefully planned 6×
- carefully before 6×