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UK
/ˈeɪbli/
]
[ US /ˈeɪbɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈeɪbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
with competence; in a competent capable manner
they worked competently
How To Use ably In A Sentence
- The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
- I badly wanted the job, but knew that my age would probably tell against me.
- He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
- On the other hand, a blazer and slacks would probably be acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- Kids at one Connecticut school don't like a new rule, but you probably won't hear them expressing themselves by using profanity: the rule to keep kids from cussing.
- Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
- It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
- There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement