firmly

How To Use firmly In A Sentence

• This state of things was fastened all the more firmly on the people by strong kings such as Hammurabi, who lived about B.C. 2000 and who unified the country under a powerful central government with his own city, Babylon, as the capital. Hebrew Life and Times
• Unless you've been hiding under an unfashionable rock for the past year, you'll have the word camel firmly rooted in your fashionista lexicon. Philippa Young: Camel: It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or White
• Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
• So much so that when he tried out a few of his character's screen tricks on his family, they put him firmly in his place. The Sun
• In the near rocks zone, a battle airship firmly adsorb to a great meteorolite, an eye warrior watch with scout far places of Flolamp fleets, soundless, Boss, Flolamp have leaved for Life Star. Mini Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
• Bilbao is firmly anchored in Basque culture, with its emphasis on literature and the culinary arts. Times, Sunday Times
• He does not press ambitious claims, and each of his opinions is firmly anchored in the law.
• Chisholm says he is firmly anchored in publicly funded healthcare, and brandishes a copy of the Wanless Report as his New Year holiday reading.
• We earthed up the roots firmly when we planted the trees.
• The greatest difficulty which presents itself in entering the southern mouth arises from what in America are termed snags, that is, large trees, the roots of which are firmly planted in the bed of the river, whilst the branches project up the stream, and are likely to pierce any boat in its passage down. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2