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soundly

[ US /ˈsaʊndɫi/ ]
[ UK /sˈa‍ʊndli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly')
    we beat him good
    he was soundly defeated
  2. deeply or completely
    slept soundly through the storm
    the baby is sleeping soundly

How To Use soundly In A Sentence

  • While in a state of mesmeric sleep, he said that, yes, he was asleep but would rather sleep more soundly.
  • It also tires the body out, prompting it to sleep more soundly. Times, Sunday Times
  • But, soundly as Tom Tallington slept, the scriggly legs of a beetle were rather too much when they began to work in his ear, and he started up and brushed the creature away, the investigating insect falling on the floor with a sharp rap. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp
  • I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • Most sleep soundly, albeit not as long as usual. Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
  • Good design is a timeless concept, exemplified best by an object that is soundly manufactured and beautiful, and works efficiently for its purposes.
  • I wish you had run all risks, and cudgelled the old burgomaster, stadholder, or whatever else he may be, soundly. The Purcell Papers
  • (`More likely VD ," Essie's brother had muttered and had been soundly shushed. FAIRYLAND
  • Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
  • England will not sleep soundly after this. Times, Sunday Times
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