How To Use Soundly In A Sentence
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While in a state of mesmeric sleep, he said that, yes, he was asleep but would rather sleep more soundly.
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It also tires the body out, prompting it to sleep more soundly.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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Most sleep soundly, albeit not as long as usual.
Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
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Good design is a timeless concept, exemplified best by an object that is soundly manufactured and beautiful, and works efficiently for its purposes.
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I wish you had run all risks, and cudgelled the old burgomaster, stadholder, or whatever else he may be, soundly.
The Purcell Papers
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(`More likely VD ," Essie's brother had muttered and had been soundly shushed.
FAIRYLAND
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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
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England will not sleep soundly after this.
Times, Sunday Times
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I upheld the pride of Britain by being soundly thrashed at pool.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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But how soundly based is it?
Times, Sunday Times
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And Mrs. Browning laughed too, as Flush flung himself down on the bedroom floor and slept soundly upon the arms of the Guidi family inlaid in scagliola.
Flush: a biography
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Wulfgar rose and gazed down at Aislinn, now still and sleeping soundly.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The Service stretcher, while soundly built and serviceable, is for this very reason a somewhat cumbrous load even when empty.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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That soundbite is just the sort of message that will send Middle America off to sleep soundly in its bed.
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That boy deserves to be soundly thrashed!
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Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia.
In Search of the Castaways
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She was too soundly asleep to hear Stefano's return.
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I upheld the pride of Britain by being soundly thrashed at pool.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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The worst outcome would be a second crime; an indictment and conviction not soundly based.
Times, Sunday Times
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Backtrack now to the point at which the impressively recalcitrant Bilbo is being soundly berated by Gandalf.
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Whether or not the driver was exaggerating, the young man didn't sleep soundly that night.
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The hull of the 440 is soundly built with solid fiberglass laminates and no core materials.
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The student has now acquired sufficient knowledge to be able to soundly judge the infinitely more complex matter of a human life.
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_Tyrant_, &c., with which Prospero hunts his enemies "soundly," in the
Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850
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Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep soundly.
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A hollow sound indicates that the veneer is not fixed soundly and further work is required.
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Nowadays we need the iron fist of policing in order that we might sleep soundly in our beds.
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Mortimer made half-accusations against the freshmen they had "frisked" earlier in the evening, and had been soundly trounced for their impudence.
Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery
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Today, more than ever, the primary challenge facing the CEO is to build management teams that know how to create soundly rationalized businesses - and manage them to last.
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Nature decided to put an abrupt end to our finger-pointing conspiracy theorists' dialogue, when a deafening fart emptied from the anus of someone soundly asleep downstairs.
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Anderson was soundly criticized by the local news media - probably less for the misplay than for the fact that there has been so little to criticize in his 11 years with the Angels.
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Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep soundly.
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Her father's emphasis on 'soundly' declared an approval of the deed, and she was chilled by a sickening abhorrence and dread of the cruel brute in men, such as, awakened by she knew not what, had haunted her for a year of her girlhood.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
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It was a small one, with stallage for only half a dozen animals, but soundly built.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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he was soundly defeated
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He did not disturb his _valet de chambre_, who was sleeping soundly at some distance; he dressed himself, and the valet, in a great fright, sprang up, thinking he had been deficient in his duty; but the king sent him back again, commanding him to preserve the most absolute silence.
The Vicomte De Bragelonne
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Our team was comfortably/easily/soundly beaten in the first round of the competition.
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Purring, the small cat tucked himself beneath her chin and soundly fell asleep.
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In the sequel, we are delivered a narrative which soundly reinforces this ideal throughout.
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The overall structure of the enclosure is sufficiently rigid and soundly constructed.
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But whenever he tried to fight higher levels of competition, he was soundly thrashed.
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This judgement will make them sleep soundly today" without fear of "denationalization," the publisher of Zimbabwe's last two fully independent newspapers said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He has been soundly beaten in the run-off for the presidential election in France.
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I rated our pilot soundly, but he only laughed, observing, ` Oh, senhor capitan, that is noting. '
The Three Lieutenants
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Sabriel swiftly stepped forward and socked Darius soundly across the face, punching him so hard that her knuckles cracked.
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No one invaded my privacy and I could sleep soundly through the night.
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The framework places accountability soundly where it belongs: at the country level, with strong links between country-level and global mechanisms for tracing resources and tracking their results.
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They are jealous men tend to nod off quicker and sleep more soundly.
The Sun
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The committee soundly rejected all of the proposed changes.
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possie" underneath two lifeboats and was sleeping soundly.
The Tale of a Trooper
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In six little minutes more she soundly rated a careless servant-girl for carrying a nipperkin of wine awry and spilling good liquor.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Of course I shall say it much more rudely and possibly while whapping him soundly around the head with a giant cod, caught off the coast of Ireland by a Welsh skiff.
Only The English are British
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the baby is sleeping soundly
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The car moved slowly, like some overfreighted leaking ark, away from their shack and past the white house where Mr.. McIntyre was sleeping soundly -- hardly guessing that her cows would not be milked by Mr. Shortley that morning -- and past the Pole's shack on top of the hill and on down the road to the gate where the two Negroes were walking, one behind the other, on their way to help with the milking.
AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories
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Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep soundly.
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Again, he was cuffed soundly on the head.
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She slept soundly that day, and into the night, and did not rise until the next dawn.
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Take the time and make the investment to get a good lawyer and accountant to set you up in your business soundly.
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The name Mei long means "dragon, soundly sleeping.
Mei Long and Sleeping Dinosaurs
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I only sleep soundly at night if there's a half tablet of my own tranquilliser, clonazepam, within reach.
Times, Sunday Times
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She slept soundly, the sort of slumber that only such elixirs of Morpheus could induce in one so traumatized by the day's events.
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One man who lives within a few steps of the alley told me: 'I must have been sleeping soundly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Senate also soundly defeated a bill to ban earmarks for a year.
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The rank of subdeacon suffices for election; the Abb ‚ Legendre relates in his memoirs as a contemporary incident that one of these young legislators, after an escapade, was soundly flogged by his perceptor who had accompanied him to Paris.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Everyone was sleeping soundly until they awoke with me yelling at the top of my lungs in pain.
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The second method is more risky for the workforce, and results depend to a great extent on the prices being soundly based.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
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It will also be based soundly on evidence, not anecdote or prejudice.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was too soundly asleep to hear Stefano's return.
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We slept soundly that night, in what was probably the best bedroom in the house, and awoke with a feeling that we were about to enter on a period of some uncommon kind of jollity, which we found to be true when we went down to get breakfest.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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The series was soundly researched and well scripted, with stunning costumes and convincing sets.
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One thing's certain - young and old will sleep soundly in their chic chalets dotted around the hillside.
The Sun
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The famous Mr. Johnson is a shire-fellow of mine, and very proud I am of it, and reckon it among the greatest events of my life that he has bullyragged me soundly for differing from him, and being right, about a line of Virgil he had misquoted in my hearing.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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His first application to film school at Concordia was soundly rejected.
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India's batsmen will sleep soundly this week..
Times, Sunday Times
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He got soundly thrashed by four blokes whacking the hell out of some dustbin lids called Junk.
The Sun
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These kept her very snug and warm, and she slept soundly until morning.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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We all muck up, but if you can sleep soundly at night knowing you tried your best, you'll be all right.
Times, Sunday Times
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Please sort it out, then I can sleep soundly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The worst outcome would be a second crime; an indictment and conviction not soundly based.
Times, Sunday Times
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I slept very soundly, thank you - the bed was really comfortable.
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They are jealous men tend to nod off quicker and sleep more soundly.
The Sun
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Any architect knows that, as a rule, old buildings are more soundly built than new ones.
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I curled up and went to sleep, and I slept soundly for the first time since I've been here.
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From there she peeked into the family room, where the prince was sleeping soundly.
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Because the soldiers also resisted the impulse to run away, they had to accept my entirely spurious confidence as if it was soundly based.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In his next match he was floored twice and soundly beaten by the eventual tournament winner.
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When he soundly supported the principle of women priests they made him modify his statement.
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I buy the Guardian when I'm not in a bate about drivel like this because I want well written soundly researched intelligent copy, not the poltical equivilant of whether some surgically ehanced tardo has a new bloke and is in luvvv.
Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
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Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth, on which he had so often gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks, roused his steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats, and whole valleys of timothy and clover.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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To sleep soundly, which is a blessing, is to repair and renew the body.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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When Parliament passes legislation as important as this, the wording should be more properly and soundly thought through.
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The guys were still soundly sleeping when I crept out of my room in pajamas and with barefooted feet and headed upstairs to work on my hopefully perfect plan.
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Because the soldiers also resisted the impulse to run away, they had to accept my entirely spurious confidence as if it was soundly based.
The Times Literary Supplement
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To keep the economies of Canada and the United States expanding steadily and soundly is also going to require sound and confident forward planning by private business.
A Center of Confidence
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pursue integrated planning of both terrestrial and marine environments to prevent their degradation and to utilize the full potential of the natural resource base soundly, particularly for ecotourism.
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A safety net of finances makes us feel more secure about our family's welfare, and it can help us sleep soundly at night, too!
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You will sleep soundly when you hand a money problem back to its rightful owner.
The Sun
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So lifting up the Cudgell, he gave him therewith halfe a score good bastinadoes, laying them on soundly, both on his armes and shoulders: and Egano feeling the smart of them, durst not speake one Worde, but fled away from him so fast as hee could, Anichino still following, and multiplying many other injurious speeches against him, with the Epithites of Strumpet, lustfull and insatiate
The Decameron
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He had no nerves and no imagination; and was tired, and slept very soundly until it was light and time to put his neddies out before any person came by and discovered that he had been making free with the rector's grass.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
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She saw Mac still sleeping soundly, making a barely audible guttural sound from his throat, she silently laughed at the thought that he has a slight snoring problem.
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I would think that people would prefer media that soundly analyzes what they're writing about, rather than drawing unhelpful analogies.
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Tachihi is one example of how investors in Japan have thrown out the baby with the bath water - shunning even highly-liquid, ungeared, and soundly-capitalised companies with good potential.
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Her raven locks were plastered to her head in sweat, and she was sleeping soundly.
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The committee soundly rejected all of the proposed changes.
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Therefore, although impatient for the morning, I slept soundly and had no need of cheering dreams.
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Ill tell thee what, thou 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, Ill forswear half-kirtles.
Act V. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
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Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep soundly.
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These kept her very snug and warm, and she slept soundly until morning.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Granted, the band is still on one hell of a roll on this album, as opener "Jotun" soundly attests, one of the finest encapsulations of the Gothenburg sound ever put on record, Strömblad's mournful melodies working in direct contrast to the bracing gallop set by drummer Gelotte and bassist Johan Larsson.
PopMatters
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Forecasts of a growth pickup have been soundly dashed over the past two years.
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He says that particular image was not what was important to voters in 2002 when he ran for city council at age 25 and soundly beat a former councilman.
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You think it's soundly based on "experience" or "on the facts".
Your One Week Way to Mind-Fitness
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They are jealous men tend to nod off quicker and sleep more soundly.
The Sun
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I barked my shin soundly on the sharp edge of her new shoe rack.
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Well, that depends on whether 10 million would prove a powerful enough sedative to allow you to sleep soundly at night.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was the Papal Nuncio to Germany, and he also wrote Mit Brenender Sorge, the encyclical letter released by Pius XI that soundly condemned The Nazi's.
Texas Faith: Should government practice social justice? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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They wanted to sleep soundly in the knowledge that their vehicle was safe and dry.
Times, Sunday Times
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I slept soundly for a long time; then I waked up and found that, instead of rain pattering against the roof, and darkness everywhere, it was quite light.
Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
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Not horror, as I sleep very soundly.
The Sun
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Soundly considered, the school would have served a better purpose if the number of failures was reducing and not as hyper-increasing as it is currently.
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Well, 40 million Americans and 10 million foreigners - a collective 1.5 million more in 2011 than in 2010 - have proven the notion soundly wrong.
NYDN Rss
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Deck hardware is soundly attached with stainless steel nuts, bolts, and washers and either aluminium or fibreglass backing plates for distributing loads.
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He was taken back to the jail and soundly whipped.
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He shrugged, and was again cuffed soundly on the head.
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Every one was at church, and the dvornik, or porter who guarded the front door, was snoozing soundly, wrapped up in his sheep-skins, near the heater.
Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
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The Caliph sent several small armadas to defeat Dahar but these were all soundly defeated.
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Conclusion The HA implant through evisceroneurotomy made the eyeball full, soundly mobile, symmetrical in appearance.
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Normally undemonstrative, Murasaki flung her arms about her father and kissed him soundly.
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The proposal was soundly defeated in a recorded vote with only 11 voting for the motion. 67 voted against and there were 11 abstentions.
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I quickly went to see what the commotion was about and saw that my teacher was soundly lashing a young boy, stripped naked and wrists bound to a column so that he wouldn't escape.
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Nagourney says that Clinton's other challenges are to defeat Obama "soundly" in Pennsylvania and lead in the total popular vote after the June primaries.
Obama's Path To The Nomination
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He promised to send her something to prevent the wine making her sleep too soundly, meaning a composing draught to enable her to sleep, as he saw very little chance of her doing so without.
Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
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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 IV
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She saw the dog lying quietly in the corner, Childe Charity sleeping soundly in her bed, and the moon shining through the shutterless window.
Granny's Wonderful Chair
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slept soundly through the storm
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A quick peep at my watch told me that the time was 6.30 a.m. and across in the other bed, just visible through the mosquito nets, J.R. was still sleeping soundly.
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And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
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Though he slept soundly, he awoke instantly.
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He got soundly thrashed by four blokes whacking the hell out of some dustbin lids called Junk.
The Sun
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A loud alarm bell rang out soundly and he awoke from a trance.
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Savers should sleep more soundly at night.
Times, Sunday Times
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More soundly could my scourge have yerked many.
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In my opinion the stand of the parties, one of whom seeks expedition and the other of whom does not oppose it, is soundly based.
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We slept soundly that night, in what was probably the best bedroom of the house, and awoke with a feeling that we were about to enter on a period of some uncommon kind of jollity, which we found to be true when we went down to get breakfast.
Rudder Grange
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But he would not be known to have so done; but I am sure he was soundly bedabbled with that kind of dirt.
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Then they had the "Old Woman in the Shoe," and Flaxie was a fierce and cruel mother, whipping her children so "soundly" that you could hear them scream half a mile off.
The Twin Cousins
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We were spotted and soundly thrashed.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Deck hardware is soundly attached with stainless steel nuts, bolts and washers and either aluminum or fiberglass backing plates for distributing loads.
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Honestly, I believe if all vile abusive papers on both sides were suppressed, and some of the fire-eating editors who make a living by lying were soundly cowhided or had their ears clipped, it would do more towards establishing peace, than all the bloodshedding either side can afford.
A Confederate girl's diary,
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It will also be based soundly on evidence, not anecdote or prejudice.
Times, Sunday Times
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While he was slumbering soundly in the cabin, many an eye was directed from the shore, and from the boats and vessels in the harbor, at the trim and janty yacht which had come in during the night.
Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.
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We slept so soundly, in fact, that none of us heard John Church rise, untether his horse, and slip away into the early morning.
Kings of Colorado
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And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly.
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It will also be based soundly on evidence, not anecdote or prejudice.
Times, Sunday Times
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If I knew I was handed an academic plum I should have worked for just because I whined to the right people, I don't think I could sleep as soundly at night.
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When I hit the sack after having a few rums I can sleep very soundly.
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I think what he ought to do frankly is send a mother of a fallen American soldier to accept the prize on behalf of the U.S. military and frankly to send the message to remind the Nobel committee that each one of them sleeps soundly at night because the U.S. military is the greatest peacekeeping force in the world today.
Although the Nobel thing has pretty much crested by now… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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What we've got now is an economy which is soundly based, a recovery which is long term.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside this motel room, thousands have slept restlessly or soundly, showered hot or showered cold, tuned to channel 1 or channel 7.
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Changes must be soundly based in economic reality.
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He got soundly thrashed by four blokes whacking the hell out of some dustbin lids called Junk.
The Sun
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Though he slept soundly, he awoke instantly.
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Then the knight recalls how the other had basely reproached him about the cart; so he assails him and drubs him so soundly that not a string or strap remains unbroken about the neck-band of his hauberk, and he knocks the helmet and ventail from his head.
Four Arthurian Romances
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I had been soundly trounced at the last two poker games I had organised—by people I had taught how to play, no less.
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While the rest of the room wiped their brows, one of the successful bidders slept soundly through the entire proceedings.
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The government directive was for soundly made furniture of the best available materials and of pleasant design.
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Whenever it is well formed it shows that the vital energy is flowing smoothly within the person and indicates that the corresponding area of a person's life is functioning soundly.
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Duke was soundly defeated in this month's Louisiana governor's race.
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The manager rated him soundly and then dismissed him.
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We were spotted and soundly thrashed.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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And if a writer wants to really persuade his or her readers of something, focusing on one central idea and arguing it soundly is more likely to stick in their readers’ heads than a list of 25 reasons why such and such.
Why Single-Idea Blog Posts Often Work Better Than List Posts | Write to Done
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Now the wind like a kindly mother sways softly the village slept soundly in the cradle, rocking the midsummer night of countryside like Eden in my heart.
