How To Use Perfectly In A Sentence

Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
Tennis or no tennis, we thought it was a perfectly enjoyable playdate. Times, Sunday Times
Adele brushes her perfectly manicured fingertips atop the cold, smooth metal of the letter opener.
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.

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Have you failed to hear a word he's said since he swept you off your perfectly pedicured feet and into the nearest watering hole?
Largely he was happy in his perfectly toned sepia world. Times, Sunday Times
It's unavoidable, understandable, and perfectly forgivable under the circumstances.
While it's no surprise that this script is based on Nelson's own play, given the perfectly measured arguments, the film is never short on cinematic virtues.
Funny and moving, this book will sit perfectly in any footie lover's stocking. The Sun
Tom Tedder's tragedy was that he had a perfectly accurate estimate of his own talents as an artist.
His outlook could hardly have been helped by the cancelling of a perfectly good goal just after the quarter-hour, the linesman flagging for offside.
But this was a perfectly placid surface, so the constant coming and going calls for some explanation. Times, Sunday Times
It is perfectly coherent from a pure domestic viewpoint. Georges Ugeux: It's the Dollar, Stupid
You are perfectly welcome to stay here: I can't offer five-star accommodation, that's all.
His teeth were rows of perfectly set pearly whites, and he had a dimple in his left cheek.
With his baseball cap and goatee, he would fit in perfectly with the demonstrators downtown.
I think it's perfectly possible in conversation to be proud of achievements without appearing egotistical.
The artist had rendered her gentle smile perfectly.
I am pretty certain that during his actual practice lifetime Dr. Egnor utilized these studies and never counted on the brains of his patients to be so intelligently designed that they would all be optimally perfectly identical. coturnix Egnorance Overload - The Panda's Thumb
His kitchen is small but perfectly serviceable, especially for a doctor who tends to order room service or eat in restaurants.
When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent. Chapter LIV
On the contrary; it's perfectly logical and defensible. Times, Sunday Times
Unfinished hems and bulky vertical exterior seams retained an air of elegance, their rough finish somehow marrying perfectly with the slinky lines of dresses and skirts. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the interview she kept her temper perfectly , laughing and jesting.
Windsurfing is perfectly safe as long as you have/use some common sense.
Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
Plus the clothes here were perfectly fine, and I wasn't wasting my money on some sleazy outfit from some swanky store just for a date.
His talent is amazing, his superb phrasing and sense of rhythm as flawless as a perfectly cut diamond.
The angel's face was luminesced, his skin glowing and perfectly flawless.
To have such a thing happen - when for a lifetime she had been a perfectly normal agnostic, like everybody else.
But when toxicity reaches the cell, autophagia may go crazy and kill off the whole cell as well as perfectly healthy cells necessary for the health of the lungs, and even other organs. How Nanotechnology May Be Damaging Our Lungs | Impact Lab
He seems to be an actor perfectly suited to kitchen sink dramas in an age when demand from that sort of awkward, angry character is declining.
I don't think the textures jive perfectly but the chile relleno taco is definitely something I haven't seen many other places.
He sounded like he thought that was a complete, perfectly rational explanation.
Now seeing in the last section, those we call mathematics are absolved of the crime of breeding controversy; and they that pretend not to learning cannot be accused; the fault lieth altogether in the dogmatics, that is to say, those that are imperfectly learned, and with passion press to have their opinions pass everywhere for truth, without any evident demonstration either from experience, or from places of Scripture of uncontroverted interpretation. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
He knew perfectly that I recommended nothing of the sort, and he must have been very angry to indulge in this _boutade_. The Path Of Duty
Through its use of color and light, the building celebrates a child's sense of joy and fresh discovery and is perfectly scaled for its young users.
The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet — brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
If so, then a being cannot be perfectly just and perfectly merciful.
When Kwan shocked Hong Kong by coming out, he was already established as one of the city's best filmmakers, esteemed for his finely tuned aesthetics and perfectly realized tragic heroines.
My position on euthanasia is actually derived from the ancient Greek one; that is, I am generally in favour of allowing it, as long as the person being euthanized is in perfectly sound mental condition, not non compos mentis, and has positively re-affirmed his decision at least three times over the period of at least a suspended period of time to allow for reconsideration (say 15 or 30 days). Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion
If the load impedance perfectly matches the transmission line impedance, the reflected power is zero.
The exhibits seem perfectly matched, rather than purposefully included. Times, Sunday Times
The ambatch float remained perfectly stationary upon the surface.
Today, I found out that my overprotective parents hired a private investigator a month ago, who since then has been watching my perfectly normal boyfriend, in case he "tries to rape or kill" me.
He said things he knew perfectly well he did not mean, and he was not at all ashamed of owning this strange character trait.
There's sure to be a perfectly innocent explanation for all this?though I admit it looks bizarre.
With thirty or more feet of extra rope, I rebelayed it through the jug handle perfectly situated above.
He proved perfectly willing to disclose the secret. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
We had a perfectly divine time in Switzerland.
This weekend Costco was selling flats of perfectly ripe figs. Yesterday I quartered and wrapped them in prosciutto for a quick, easy, and addictively good appetizer. Archive 2008-07-01
Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless. Pride and Prejudice
Their relationship is perfectly told and both actors rise to the occasion served up to them by the original author and the adaptor.
The title waited for its fulfilment in Him who alone, in His own person, could perfectly show forth the holiness of God on earth -- Jesus the Son of the Father. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
A period of depression can be a perfectly natural response to certain aspects of life.
She stood perfectly still, listening to his footsteps recede down the hall.
Their refusal to cooperate is perfectly/completely understandable, considering the circumstances.
The title doesn’t corollate perfectly, but I like the way it sounds. Archive 2007-11-01
I have had a _squint_, or _cross-eye_, since birth, and in less than one minute, and with VERY LITTLE PAIN, you have made my eyes perfectly straight and natural. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
This time, though, old and new mesh perfectly, all hard greys and ashy blacks, and we believe.
It is the most perfectly asinine closing statement I think I have ever heard by a ‘professional’ writer.
I'm perfectly happy with the voluptuous curves of the woman I love.
The trams is one such example where it is perfectly valid for the SNP to be defeated. When 3 become 1
Wilkinson's mature performance with perfectly timed passes and Tig's energy helped to secure the 19-7 win.
I assure you they'll be perfectly safe with us.
The address book is an odd addition, given that the database is perfectly adequate for fulfilling this need.
Stuart and I promptly donned our dressiest outfits -- in my case, a $5 black tuxedo from the Salvation Army that I used when performing with the orchestra -- and grabbed our next door neighbor, "Circle" (so named because it looked like someone made his face with a perfectly round cookie cut-out and cut his hair with a bowl on his head). Eliezer Sobel: Calling Dr. Laura: Old Loves And The Boundaries Of Fidelity
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
It remains one of my favorite artifacts and seems to perfectly encapsulate emergence of new types of social currencies as a part of a reorganization of our lives around social relationships. Boing Boing
Consumers' surplus in the perfectly competitive industry equals areas. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Everything seems to fit together perfectly, and one doesn't catch any extra or superfluous notes.
If you can't afford the really nice mandolines, the plastic ones are perfectly serviceable.
It combusts perfectly, leaving no residue, no ash.
The judge's sentence was perfectly just in the circumstances.
Staying off the mountain altogether is cheaper still - and perfectly doable. The Sun
It indicates how the effects of suspense, eeriness and horror is established perfectly through the use of irony.
A perfectly braised shank on buttery mash surrounded by vegetables set the tastebuds going before the plate was even put down on the table.
This dilemma perfectly sums up the impasse in all republican-loyalist negotiations.
You can get a perfectly reliable car for less than 1,000. Times, Sunday Times
He seems perfectly sane to me.
It turns out that antiquing is a pastime that fits in perfectly with that motto. PrairieMod Monday
Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. STARDUST
We are not able to communicate the activation states of our brains in such a way that they are perfectly replicable by others.
Of course, what happens when a perfectly legitimate emailer is labeled as a spammer by such a system, and their own emails slow to a crawl?
Bernie Madoff got caught running what he called a hedge fund; thousands of uber-financiers are making off with billions running an even larger ponzi scheme that is perfectly legal. Leo W. Gerard: Q&A With Responsible Pension Investment Expert Thomas Croft
So the idea that even one Planned Parenthood staffer (by definition … a “pro-choicer”) is perfectly okay with funding even one abortion, specifically to kill a black child — well, we are unilaterally and unequivocally against that. ProWomanProLife » On “moral hygiene”
What is perfectly clear is that the entire venture has been daring from the outset.
Fortunately for us, we had made ourselves perfectly acquainted with the country the previous day, and instantly realized that escape by our right (as we faced Lucknow) was impossible, because of a huge impassable _jhil_. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
YB type test pressure gauge can woke perfectly in the occasion without corrosion to copper alloy.
Some places do coconut shrimp that's more like a shrimp hidden inside a coconut hushpuppy, but these were delicate and perfectly cooked. All Stories
FROM THE POST: The Nationals pull off a perfectly executed relay, and we go inside to discover the hidden beauty in a 9-6-5 putout. Fifth starter intrigue
The silence of the night pictures itself before him in the form of an endless expanse of perfectly calm, dark water, which has overflowed everything and congealed; there is not a ripple on it, not a shadow of a motion, and neither is there anything within it, although it is bottomlessly deep. The Man Who Was Afraid
The sea was calm, perfectly flat. Titanic - Destination disaster
Furthermore, I feel it is perfectly legitimate, in the interests of creating a good drama, to telescope events or create symbolic scenes.
The instant appeal of the house comes from the mellow red brick perfectly matched by the clay roof tiles. Times, Sunday Times
The lines are stitched in perfectly even stitches using waxed thread.
It is perfectly justifiable for him to seek redress - and he intends to do so with vigour. Times, Sunday Times
She wore a pearl necklace to match those on her dress and even her hair, a tower of blonde streaked curls done up in such a fashion that a few loose strands framed her plumpish face perfectly, was adorned with strands of pearls.
She blushed at the thoughts running through her mind after surveying him fully still clad in his charcoal grey dress pants that accented his derrière perfectly.
To say that she thinks it's immoral is a perfectly accurate report of her own ethical judgement. Archive 2010-05-01
There was no smoke or contrails behind the craft, and it made no noise in the perfectly clear sky.
Cameron Diaz kind of sleepwalked through it, but she looked sexy and Ben Stiller perfectly embodied the loser looking for love character. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
These colours can be speckled or spiced up with added sparkle and are available in perfectly smooth or textured options. Times, Sunday Times
It may be perfectly secure, but I'm not sure it will feel secure to internet punters.
No telly, on account of the fact the schedulers have so perfectly blended Christmas morning into the regular day-to-day line-up that there was nothing even vaguely worth watching.
It is perfectly normal for your child to develop either a wet or dry cough because most colds are accompanied by a cough.
We are all familiar with "compositing" photos, in which we might take the blown-out area of one photo and replace it with the perfectly exposed area of another photo. Photofocus
The perfectly laudable aim is to engineer a more mixed intake in schools. Times, Sunday Times
The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
Oddly, Hopkins makes perfectly realistic graphite drawings of anemones, tulips and ranunculuses that have the delicacy of drypoint etching; he also paints straightforward Japanese watercolor ‘portraits’ of flowers.
He placed it perfectly in the bow drawing the bowstring.
The truth is perfectly clear and almost perfectly indigestible.
Perfectly okay for a night. Times, Sunday Times
He should be able to lead a perfectly normal life.
There was a rapturous ring of silence abiding perfectly.
How can they put such a damning construction on a perfectly innocent phrase?
It seems such a shame to throw perfectly good food away.
Many of our educated girls, when they can work on people's heads and feet, and present a card with some big word on it, as "chiropodist," which means foot-cleaner, are perfectly satisfied. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
The former state attorney general and congressman seems like a perfectly decent mainline Democrat.
It is therefore perfectly permissible for the owner of a copyright to do nothing with it.
But the slow pace of exercise indicates that these young people are more interested in coquetry than spoiling a perfectly good sweat-suit with sweat.
A host of sparrows create such a rioting as renders sleep or repose perfectly out of the question.
The clam pizza at Zuppardi's in West Haven, Connecticut, for example, is made with just shucked clams and a hint of fresh garlic on a perfectly blistered pizza crust. Robert Rosenthal: One Woman's Disgusting Clam Is Another Man's Pleasure To Eat
The salmon steak ($9 - wow!) was well-cooked and blended perfectly with the sweet homemade chutney.
The furniture was too perfectly arranged, the rugs untrodden upon, everything clean, immaculate, untouched. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Rather, my first thought is of the scene in which Tom (wonderfully and perfectly portrayed by Nick Nolte) dandles a priceless violin out the window.
His once bouffant hairdo had looked lank and stringy, and the perfectly unshaven designer stubble could not hide the lines on his face.
While snacking is perfectly acceptable, make sure snack foods are nutritious.
Sue had commented how differently from my father I spoke, she said that all my sentences were perfectly formed as they came out, with my voice modulated.
My OB also told me that Gravol was perfectly safe to take ... A retching dilemma
Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
Therefore he was perfectly presentable. Wives and Daughters
The teeth of these people also, whatever they may suffer in their colour by chewing betel, are an object of great attention: The ends of them, both in the upper and under jaw, are rubbed with a kind of whetstone, by a very troublesome and painful operation, till they are perfectly even and flat, so that they cannot lose less than half a line in their length. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
The two teenagers fit the profile perfectly.
His once very masculine apartment with it's autographed sports and political memorabilia, perfectly categorized books and movie collections which were once kept in obsessively compulsive neat order, came to resemble a day care center. Susanna Quinn: Eight Weeks With Dad
The current liquidity crisis has seen perfectly viable small companies dragged down. Times, Sunday Times
Modern sculpt of streamline perform the art of kitchen cabinet perfectly.
Anyway, I found Andrea to be a perfectly amiable person, but that was not a universal view.
Never – she realized it perfectly – could she have competed in feminity with Guardie's wife. Just Patty
To my great delight, it worked perfectly.
If the seller has left himself negotiating room, then this may be perfectly acceptable.
Her interpretation is perfectly pitched to Catherine's acid sarcasm.
By the basin, under a small portico cut in the solid wall, sat a priest, old, bearded, wrinkled, cowled-never being more perfectly eremitish. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
This exceptional but as yet uncelebrated baritone rejoices in a lean, spinning, perfectly focused tone of unfailing natural beauty and vibrancy, while his grasp of Verdi style and phrasing is all but complete.
These colours can be speckled or spiced up with added sparkle and are available in perfectly smooth or textured options. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, a perfectly preserved plant stem with an array of small red flowers at its tip.
The current trend for a prim, buttoned-up collar lends itself perfectly to brooch wearing. Times, Sunday Times
The small, frosted glass window didn't allow him to see much, but he knew exactly who it was from the smooth outline of the perfectly positioned hair.
A favourite word of Spanish speakers when writing English is obtention, which they think ought to be the English for obtención, and is formed in a perfectly regular way by adding -tion to obtain. False Friends | Linguism
Her stereo system reproduces every note perfectly.
Imagine things going perfectly and enjoy the feeling. Times, Sunday Times
This remedy is perfectly safe, and is the only certain cure for botts under the sun. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
Each character was perfectly cast and the acting polished. Times, Sunday Times
I am naturally, ...err , flattered that you refer to me as 'estimable', but am surprised that the only answer to the perfectly justified observation I made that it is 'bonkers' to assert that there have been 'deliberate moves' to break up the normal family as an aside, whatever that is is to make this comment: [those days] under the microscope
Yes, the station had a perfectly charming garden including a herbaceous border, rose beds, lupins and mop-headed bay trees in green tubs.
A fair amount is conducted by ministerial correspondence, a perfectly acceptable method in constitutional terms.
It is perfectly proper for a local paper to throw its weight behind one side in a local issue, as it is for a columnist to express a personal opinion.
She decided it was a good thing he'd been drunk - an unexpected bonus; she was perfectly certain he didn't normally imbibe to excess. ON A WICKED DAWN
He perfectly properly discharged the jury on that occasion.
The proportions of hot water, tea and ice are perfectly balanced to produce a fresh 24 oz. pitcher of iced tea with each infuser. Tea Forte on Ice!
She was perfectly lit from a street light above her.
Only a perfectly tuned engine can turn in the fuel consumption figures ratified for a vehicle by the Government.
She is wearing a figure-hugging white bodice and tight ski pants which perfectly show off her dancer's figure and dark colouring.
Yet he was still leading our students and by all appearances seemed perfectly okay. Christianity Today
His guards stepped quickly into the room, hands on their sword hilts, but seeing their master and the nun in the same positions and perfectly calm, the guards merely took their places by the door and stood waiting. This Scepter'd Isle
This is hardly evidence for it to be the burial place of Khufu, let alone for anything else, although it is perfectly possible that Khufu was buried at this “special” place where later or earlier a pyramid was constructed. Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
January 28th, 2009 at 1: 42 pm why do English-speakers and writers always refer to the Québécois, even though there is a perfectly good English name for them, Quebeckers? Matthew Yglesias » My Long-Awaited Revenge
If the Solar System existed in total isolation, those comets would continue to orbit in perfectly stable fashion.
Though the admiral was a perfectly nice and personable woman, she was not in the habit of casually dropping by to visit junior officers. Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace
The author found that 100 grammes of a Bucholze's solution for the propagation of bacteria, charged with 0.20 g. of chinoline hydrochlorate, had remained perfectly clear and free from bacteria after standing forty-six days exposed to the air, while a similar solution, placed under the same conditions, without chinoline, had turned muddy and contained bacteria after only twelve days 'standing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
Of despotic rulers who have perfectly cropped chin straps and like to yell? This Week In Trailers: Shank, Prince, Love In A Puff, Serbian Film, Some Days Are Better Than Others | /Film
Foley was perfectly still; he tried not to threaten the solitude that she seemed to be seeking. DANSVILLE
There were perfectly cogent reasons why Julian Cavendish should be told of the Major's impending return.
The music complements her voice perfectly.
The ball bounced off of one of the poles and shot perfectly into the goal.
Last night it began, perfectly timed on Christmas eve, to snow.
Yeah, it’s probably a thing where they’re used to the jargon that distinguishes a UPC barcode from an ISBN barcode, and are aware Marvel carried both until now, so it’s perfectly clear to them, but to anyone else a barcode is a barcode. Marvel Eliminates Barcodes on Collections » Comics Worth Reading
It is perfectly simple, and depends merely on the height of wire used and the amount of power at the transmitting ends. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
Charlotte Gainsbourg, who carries so well the mannish shirt mantle passed down by her mother Jane Birkin, works the look perfectly.
At the outbreak of the first world war, she was perfectly equipped for a role in intelligence.
It was a perfectly normal flight until the plane suddenly started to shake.
Lavinia and Camilla, perfectly relieved now from all fears for their brother, repaired to the study of their father, anxious to endeavour to chear him, and to accelerate a meeting and reconciliation for Lionel; but they found him desirous to be alone, though kindly, and unsolicited, he promised to admit his son before dinner. Camilla
Bolts and bolting recesses are so perfectly fitted that we favor a light touch of synthetic oil rather than grease.
The transparent bisulphide, which is highly pervious to invisible heat, exercises on it the same absorption as the perfectly opaque solution. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
I'm perfectly able to look after myself, for your information.
It is important to note that the definition of "neoclassical economics " is not perfectly self-evident. The Making of Neoclassical Economics
The drums are magnificent and each guitar is perfectly layered, in what turns out to be the best sound of the night.
As a clear example of an untestable, unscientific, hypothesis that is perfectly consistent with empirical observations, consider solipsism.
He's very particular about the kitchen - everything has to be perfectly clean and in its place.
Lance, as I said on FB, your relative fits the "chorine with a heart of gold" literary trope perfectly. From Bohemia to the battlefields and back again, our dainty heroine describes her adventures
Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
Then he hooted twice, and began to roll it up to fit perfectly inside the little metal tube, careful not to put dents in the side from his beak.
MacDonald has a beautiful voice and a soulful expression, and plays Grace perfectly.
Shine diamond decoration and shrink hemline perfectly show female's figure and charm.
On a perfectly-macadamed, butter-like road, the perfect ekka should make one feel that it is full of potholes.
If Longstreet's conduct was admirable, that of General Lee was perfectly subline. Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863.
They could have stood up perfectly well by themselves, as a dessert in their own right, without some sugary over-cooked egg white as a prop.
Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.

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