How To Use Properly In A Sentence

Some spring from immediately below the earth, and may more properly be termed suckers; the others grow on the visible part of the stem or caudex, often close to the oldest leaves; these should be cut off with a sharp knife, in early summer, and if they have a little of the parent bark attached to them all the better. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The difference in the power of the system to absorb different substances, appropriate whatever can be utilized, and throw off whatever can not be used, is sometimes called idiosyncrasy, but more properly it may be called vital resistance, and upon the integrity of this power rests the ability to combat disease in all its forms, whether it be the absorption of any animal virus or the poison resulting from undigested food. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
I wouldn't have felt properly married if it hadn't been a church wedding.
If you manage your overhead costs properly, you will impact directly on your bottom line cost base.
The bones of the skull are not properly fused at birth.

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The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
It sounds good and if it does result in more properly-managed concerts, fairs, festivals and community events being staged in the city's parks it has to be good news.
He claimed that the school district stepped over the line with its affirmative action plan and that race was improperly used to discriminate against the white teacher.
He was concerned that mistakes could be made which could cost the public money and wanted to know if the systems employed had been properly calibrated and checked.
You could see it in her body language and the way she struggled to move properly on court. Times, Sunday Times
It appeared the family had never been properly screened by the DIB, which was alarming given that its activities were supposedly well monitored, he added.
Even when the fountain was working properly it was frequently full of soap suds or discoloured because someone had put something into the water.
Many animals are not properly stunned as they are pushed through the slaughterhouse as quickly as possible.
Agreed - a certain amount of natural skill is required - but that skill needs to be properly nurtured.
All phospholipids are hygroscopic and pick up water if they are not handled properly under inert gas atmosphere.
Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
Nowhere is this properly explained in the bumph. Times, Sunday Times
The very first day I discovered the moisture meter in the mixer was not working properly, giving an inconsistent mix and the cement weigh batcher was weighing inconsistent amounts for each batch. Undefined
This is the point I discovered I should have done my homework properly.
From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this -- Life on the Mississippi
They should deal properly and fairly with any complaint.
She will have to learn to behave properly.
See how good a man looks in a properly tailored double-breasted tuxedo with a hand-tied bowtie.
While I'm not picking this title up unless Cass gets treated properly, I will say that the artist who made the teaser is very good. Who’s behind the mask this time? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
It is therefore essential that they properly monitor the growth of broad money together with the build-up of wider inflationary risks. Times, Sunday Times
I find as many homes as I can and keep as many as I can house properly; I spay/neuter, give annual shots, treat for heartworms and fleas, and hold the others in my arms as my veterinarian gives them the shot to euthanize them.
Gear must be properly lubricated.
Trouble signals are indicated when a detector becomes too ‘dirty’ to properly function.
Parking at the event appeared well organised and there were plenty of marshals about to make sure cars were lined up properly and able to leave the ground easily at the end of the day.
The question was so unexpected that , for a moment , she was at a loss how to act up properly.
Your best bet is investing in a comfortable pillow which properly supports your head and neck. The Sun
That answer would take volumes to answer properly, but in short, its what the Chinese call guanxi, or "relationships" and thus what goes around...comes around. Chengdu Birthdays and Ping Pong Battles
Once properly tagged and escorted, the visitor passes the initial checkpoint and walks along a corridor into the Headquarters Building lobby.
Preliminary analysis: death from overdose of coldsleep drugs, combined with oxygen starvation and dehydration when cocoon failed to properly deploy. The City Who Fought
It is necessary to design the antenna properly or system performance will be degraded.
You should check that the smoke alarm is working properly.
When properly applied, the choke hold causes unconsciousness in 10-20 seconds.
The school's culinary dean recalls being hung from a meat hook for improperly boning veal during one of his 14-hour days as an apprentice in 1949 Germany.
Getting things done properly took precedence over getting them done quickly.
at the beginning of bubble formation, the Japanese government didn't address it properly and in a timely manner, sowing the seeds for an irreversible future disaster.
Properly called the carpal trochlea (or trochlea carpalis, if you prefer), this structure allows the hand to fold up tightly close to the ulna. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
We must make sure that effort is properly rewarded.
The radar ovens and cybernated housekeepers did all the work; the only thing left for the men in charge was to make sure they were working properly. Starchild Omnibus
It also needs to work properly. Times, Sunday Times
Hopefully you have purchased a Security Suite (antivirus, firewall, antispyware, etc) from a RELIABLE vendor (like McAfee) and have it properly configured and automatically updating … if so, you probably would not have been infected … SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 111
The status of many Eurasian species of Late Devonian cyrtospiriferid brachiopods require careful restudy to properly assess their generic status and assignment to morphologic/phylogenetic groups of Cyrtospirifer outlined below.
The baggage was properly roped up and conveyed to the airport.
Sensible and justifiable decisions, properly communicated would raise morale rather than diminish it.
If properly framed, some of those positions could be sold to Kentucky voters at least; others need to be "reframed" into oblivion. Rand Paul: No Babe in the Woods
He's a spoilt brat and it's about time he learnt to behave properly.
Is not this effect nearly similar to that produced by the combination of phosphorus and sulphur, or, more properly speaking, the _phosphuret of sulphur_? Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
The versions here are properly mixed versions by the original recording engineer from the multi-track tape in true stereo.
We can only hope this time they do the job properly. The Sun
Thus, now is the best time for all traditional leaders to start educating their subjects on the importance of storing their crops properly.
Warming up properly is one of the best ways to avoid injuries to your muscles, ligaments and tendons.
Years ago we were more provincial even than now as, for instance, a certain Englishman, who wrote, while living in a small French town in 1813 these barbarians make fun of me everywhere just because I am properly dressed and speak the language of a human being. The Yankee Myth
Where necessary to render harmless and carry away noxious or flammable gases, line brattice or other approved methods of ventilation shall be used so as to properly ventilate the face.
And he shows that all those comminations and threats which we read in the Scriptures of the New Testament in no way belong to the nature of the Gospel properly so called, but are the confirmation of the law.
His company was properly registered, and he boasted several business associates with impeccable reputations.
I'll do my best to keep the overall design and function clean and simple but I'm looking forward to getting properly to grips with the new methodology.
Part of my steak isn't cooked properly.
The bones of the skull are not properly fused at birth.
I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house.
If properly timed, these throws can quickly get a ball to a baseman to make a play; if it isn't, however, the ball will most likely be overthrown, missing cutoff men entirely along with its target.
I was now able to breathe properly and started to feel over my body with both hands.
I can't breathe properly?I'm gasping for air!
It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
The California's Supreme Court (in a 7-0 decision written by the justice who authored the marriage decision) has already unanimously determined pre-election review is not precluded when the challenge is based upon a claimthat the initiative may not properly be submitted to the voters becauseit amounts to a constitutional revision rather than an amendment. California's "Proposition 8 - Limit on Marriage Initiative" Should Be Removed From The Ballot
If two leggers are respectful and properly admiring of us for the exotic, superior beings that we are, then we will always be well behaved in return.
After reading her comment, the only thing I would add is that properly-rotated cattle or bison eating grass actually *add* an inch of topsoil to the earth each year. A better way to die? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
You can't exist by hope alone, you have to have some properly thought-out plan.
The justice secretary is blaming her predecessors for the crisis in prisons and says that there are too few officers to run them properly. Times, Sunday Times
The brakes don't seem to be working properly.
The city of Worcester may appropriate a sum not exceed - ing seventy-five hundred dollars for the purpose of providing a suitable gift for the U.S. S. "Worcester" to properly com - memorate the dedication and commissioning of the afore - said ship. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
The report reveals that decisions are based on ‘inaccurate and out-of-date country information, unreasoned decisions about people's credibility and a failure to properly consider complex torture cases.’
Because it is hidden in a valley, the first time you see this inverted roller coaster ride properly is when you are about to join the queue. The Sun
Because the cost of a page fault is high, it is desirable that a garbage collector properly manage locality of reference.
Look after yourself properly while you are pregnant. These are some of the things you can do for yourself.
Now, since the current always runs from the positive to the negative pole, and makes its whole circuit in that direction, it will be readily seen that, from the place on the patient where the positive pole is applied, inward as far as to the central point, the direction of the current may properly be said to be _inward_; and that, from the central point to the place of the negative electrode, where the current comes out, its direction may be said to be _outward_. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
Then working outwards from the centre, the remaining collapse and infill material would be removed and all voids re-filled with properly compacted chalk.
That is true only in the vaguest terms and only when the whole context of how tribal government evolved is properly understood.
Even Western governments are still utterly incapable of properly distinguishing true incitation to violence and hate from ethnic pride, mild but nonviolent rebellion, and counterculture. Kicking them out « BuzzMachine
In other words, we can't afford to properly police copyright laws so we'll try and use emotional blackmail to keep people in line.
We need to ensure that handwriting is properly taught in our primary schools.
Then he picked up the Grail, holding the torch to illuminate it, looking at it properly now. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Here we stopped for a day and a night that Xavier and his crew might get properly drunk on tafia, while Nick and I walked about the town and waited until his Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
He gave the pot one final stir before turning around so he could properly talk to her.
Trouble is, that means they won't work properly. The Sun
The more powerful or complex the engine, the more vital it is to ‘lean’ the fuel/air mixture properly.
The department had sought suggestions from the teacher-training colleges for a modular course to enable the estimated 280 primary teachers without qualifications to qualify properly.
I wish someone would properly master this recording so that I can truly judge the overall quality.
Skin corrosiveness testing is conducted to ensure that chemicals and products are properly labeled to alert consumers and workers to take precautions to prevent chemical burns to the skin.
There is something wrong with this machine, the wheels aren't meshing properly with each other.
The baggage was properly roped up and conveyed to the airport.
The President will be supported by a deputy president and four properly resourced regional vice presidents.
Chimneys must be insulated properly A spark arrestor on top of the chimney will protect your roof.
If you're accessing the Internet without properly securing your computer, hackers can gain illegal access to your files-often without your knowledge.
The shallow planting resulted from the planter not adequately cutting through heavy corn and soybean residue and properly placing the seed in the furrow.
Red lips for the party just mean you intend to enjoy the party properly. Times, Sunday Times
How are they supposed to make it in the outside world if they leave school not knowing how to speak properly? Times, Sunday Times
As an added bonus, we can have the sesquicentennial again and do it properly this time.
The tiles may not adhere properly if you do not use the correct glue.
A haemophiliac 's blood will not clot properly.
These are growth rings -- annuli -- which, properly counted, will give the age of your fish in years. Boing Boing
Your efforts are especially praiseworthy because very few media outlets are examining it properly, or at all.
They also ensure that the meat is butchered and hung properly. Times, Sunday Times
The doctors are doing all that they can, but she's still not breathing properly.
Out of these, when properly pounded together, Guapo intended to make the celebrated "barbasco," or fish-poison, which is used by all the Indians of South America in capturing fish. Popular Adventure Tales
It is a variation of growth and development and can affect a person's bite, ability to clean teeth properly, gingival health, jaw growth, speech development, and appearance.
You could get a nasty shock from that water heater if it isn't earthed properly.
Green laser module 300mw (IR filtered) power test under 22 celsius degree it is test under 22 celsius degree. once the module inner temperature get to 33~36 degree. our module will be high efficiency on the outpower. moreover, if you put our module into your torch housing or have it cooled in properly, its outpower will be stable longer time up to 5 minutes. WN.com - Articles related to Delhi still battling heat wave
I got to go to a nice clean toilet, have a bath, get fed properly and that sort of stuff.
When operated properly, however, flamers are easy-to-use, safe, and timesaving gardening tools.
They could have been stopped if the recall process had been carried out properly. Times, Sunday Times
I can play the piano by ear, but I regret now that I never learned to read music properly.
Phelps was accused of failing to “demean himself” (= behave) properly, but he has certainly succeeded, then and since then, in demeaning (= debasing) himself. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
Gas stoves, water heaters, furnaces and fireplaces can all release this odorless gas if they aren't properly maintained.
I've heard politicians and their factotums express themselves in this way about people who are so angry they can barely express themselves, or who have grievances that they cannot articulate properly.
An indictment of Carol for larceny would therefore be properly subject to dismissal as unconstitutionally vague as applied to her case.
Failure to follow applicable notice requirements may render any action taken at the improperly called meeting invalid. Christianity Today
There aren't any words to express properly all the wonder that I feel.
'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. ' Gladys, the Reaper
I insist on eating properly and will not skimp, even if it means altering the social calendar to suit.
When nutrients are in short supply the body cannot function properly.
Cut away the old foliage of Lenten lilies and epimediums so that you can see the flowers properly before the new leaves are produced.
You cannot properly reason, deduce or infer without a framework or structure on which to hang individual items of information. The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
For me, the warning bells started to ring when she stopped eating properly and lost all that weight.
Adding properly sand ratio can prevent gravity segregation and weeping of concrete mixture and keep the water content constant.
Salmon is delicious when cooked on a barbecue; it forms a delicious, caramelised crust and if cooked properly it will stay moist and succulent inside.
Managers were so keen to meet performance targets that they failed to check whether inspections were being carried out properly. Times, Sunday Times
Walker blames the shortfall squarely on the failure of ministers to ensure that the new policies were properly costed.
I can play the piano by ear, but I regret now that I never learned to read music properly.
There aren't any words to express properly all the wonder that I feel.
He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly, it is alleged.
Not that long ago, a classroom-style overhead projector (properly called an epidiascope) with A4 transparencies and a marker pen was the norm for most conferences. Brad Ideas - Comments
The screen is neatly trifurcated to allow viewing of multiple Web pages, each of which can be properly thought of as containing an ‘original work of authorship.’
The artist may have neglected to size the canvas properly, or may have used odd substances like charcoal which is incompatible with oil paint.
This pen is a dead loss: it just won't write properly.
At length, however, after much debating, it was determined that arms should yield to the gown, or rather, the horse to the orator -- with this precaution, that the monture should be properly secured, by an attendant to hold the bridle. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
You have a horrible tendency to post charts and either not label them properly (usually the y-axis) or not state what each curve represents (in this case it happens to be fairly obvious, but you should still state it explicitly). Matthew Yglesias » Doubts About a Vehicle-Miles Traveled Tax
The lack of the other cellular components present in these systems is not always a boon, however; sometimes proteins made using the PURE system don't fold properly, and additional proteins called chaperones need to be added to fix this problem. Ars Technica
This enzyme controls the production of a crucial brain chemical called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) necessary for brain cells to communicate properly without getting overly stimulated. Medical Mystery: A Girl Loses Her Mind
The proposition of structuralists such as Althusser is that institutional structures (in the sense of a structure of social roles and social norms) are a basic, non-reducible feature of the world and the actions, values, self-images and the like of individual human agents must conform to these structures because individual agency, properly understood, is in fact constituted by such structures. Social Institutions
Reinforce with surgery schedulers the need to return improperly completed procedure scheduling forms to physicians' offices.
He perfectly properly discharged the jury on that occasion.
Nor could even he himself be called a surety absolutely innocent: for although he was properly and personally innocent, he was imputatively and substitutively guilty; for A Dissertation on Divine Justice
How do I know my system works properly after conversion?
Undue delays have been caused by people not doing their jobs properly.
A properly adjusted swather is critical for cutting large a acreage in a timely fashion.
The study confirmed many reports that doctors were improperly trained.
I'd like to make some introductory remarks before beginning the lecture properly.
In this context it would mean that the legitimate concerns of the complainant that the alleged misconduct should be properly scrutinised by the professional body, would be ignored.
Doctors failed to properly investigate a woman with a family history of heart disease who died within a year of showing classic symptoms of a heart condition, it was alleged yesterday.
It's a kind of outdoor room, properly called a loggia, poised at the top of a flight of steps. How I Spent a Few Days in Palladio's World
THE "bikeway rapist" who terrorised Brisbane for more than two years had his 25 years jail term slashed to 16 years after the Court of Appeal today found the sentencing judge failed to properly take into account all the mitigating circumstances. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The King James Bible was meant to be read in churches, and the idea was that if you didn't gloss it, people wouldn't be able to understand it properly, and they'd have to come to church and they'd have to ask the parson in the normal way to teach.
When he can't properly or correctly defend his views, as they are undefendable, he sits back with an air of cockiness.
A glass mixing bowl or jug and a glass rod are best for blending, as they can be cleaned properly after use.
Energy, however, unless properly channeled, formally controlled and orchestrated, can end up as pandemonium - a lot of senseless rushing around and a merciless, cacophonous din.
In such a case, a patentee cannot be in a better position than a patentee who properly instructs the draftsman.
She looked properly concerned when he described how the film had been jostled from its place of victory at the eleventh hour. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
Wherefore, properly speaking, to backbite is to speak ill of an absent person in order to blacken his good name. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
There the barbecue is known as a 'braai' or 'braaivleis' - literally 'grill' or 'meat grill' and is done properly and with skill. Of Beagles and Brainpower
Make sure that you've threaded it correctly, and that all the tensioners are working properly (I usually spin them all the way in each direction, then re-set them).
We're playing quite a long show and it's important that it is structured properly.
The U.S. military dedicates large facilities, major exercises, expensive simulations and combat experienced staffs to determine if U.S. units are properly trained. David Isenberg: PMSC and the Quest for Perfect Information
I'd like to make some introductory remarks before beginning the lecture properly.
His hip had to be x-rayed to see if it was forming properly.
What depresses me more is that for our young actors, skills like speaking verse properly and voice projection are no longer a priority.
It takes a higher degree of competence, they say, to combine words properly in productive use.
The domestic law of France can properly determine what judgments may be enforced in that country.
It is difficult to assess the building's value properly without seeing it.
The child seat belt was not properly anchored to the car.
Here, brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, "we may plunge our hands up to the elbows in what they call adventures; but observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the world, thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defence, unless indeed thou perceivest that those who assail me are rabble or base folk; for in that case thou mayest very properly aid me; but if they be knights it is on no account permitted or allowed thee by the laws of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a knight. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
The application form is important. Sit down and write it out properly.
From this topic he transferred his disquisitions to the verb drink, which he affirmed was improperly applied to the taking of coffee, inasmuch as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor; that the genuine meaning of drinking is to quench one's thirst, or commit a debauch by swallowing wine; that the Latin word, which conveyed the same idea, was bibere or potare, and that of the The Adventures of Roderick Random
Miracle stories per se may be crude renderings of the seamless and spiritual way in which God truly responds to the world but, when properly spiritualized, they take on value.
One requires a fair amount of information to utilize an astrocompass properly, including the time, date, and longitudinal and latitudinal location, as well as an astronomical chart such as a nautical almanac.
Keep your wits about you, behave properly and do as you would in your own country.
We need to ensure that handwriting is properly taught in our primary schools.
People didn't have enough money to repair their houses properly. Times, Sunday Times
There is a statute and common law offense known as embracery, which is defined to consist "in such practices as lead to affect the administration of justice, _improperly working upon the minds of jurors_. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
On the other hand, a patch of open land can also become a problem and an eyesore, taken over by the local yobs as their hang-out or used as a dumping ground by people who can't be bothered to dispose of their rubbish properly.
a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this -- Life on the Mississippi
I attended the public schools where I was properly "hazed" and got what was "coming" to all country boys; finally I graduated under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Finch (a patriot indeed, who made a lasting impress for earnestness on thousands of boys), and then went to business as an entry clerk with a large importing metal house, where I remained until the war broke out. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
Additional amounts of improperly reported income may be discovered.
The way she writes you might think that tantra is a solid, inescapable fact of true polyamorous living, and that every polyamorist is a spiritual yogi seeking enlightenment through the energies released and shared during intercourse, provided of course that one has taken the time to properly align one’s chakras. Poly people « Love | Peace | Ohana
He said it was difficult to teach golf properly unless coaches could place their pupils' hands in a proper position on the club or turn their shoulders to demonstrate a proper swing.
If the door's not exactly true it won't close properly.
Impartial rule theory, casuistry, and virtue ethics are all consistent with rather than rivals of a principle-based account when it is properly conceived.
At the time, the department said it had been "taken aback" at the levels of non-compliance in the iron and steel and ferroalloy industry sector, whose processes could significantly contribute to pollution if not properly mitigated and managed. ANC Daily News Briefing
I had opened it at a Gnostic Hymn that told of a certain King’s son who, being exiled, slept in Egypt—a symbol of the natural state—and how an Angel while he slept brought him a royal mantle; and at the bottom of the page I found a footnote saying that the word mantle did not represent the meaning properly, for that which the Angel gave had the exile’s own form and likeness. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
This person is not doctoring properly.
Promising herself that she would explore it all properly later, she set off to find accommodation.
We are all, in our various ways, reliant on others to do their jobs properly.
Council bosses have just appointed a team of inspectors to ensure the works are completed on time and done properly.
To chase, or enchase, is not properly said of the gold; but of the jewel which it secures with hoops or ridges, (French, _en_chasser [O]). Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
He said the council had failed to deal properly with his complaint about the Inspection and Registration Unit.
If the kidneys are not doing their job of waste excretion properly, this can cause an overload on the liver and lead to some liver problems.
Commercial concerns, they argued, had improperly influenced the editorial process. Times, Sunday Times

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