aptly
Example Sentences
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"It's a breakdown job," trainer Ben Davison aptly told him between rounds.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
When it came time to pick the bowling-alley surface for their new home, Ryane said, they both gravitated toward the aptly named hue America’s Pastime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Your chaser is Alison McAlpine’s appealing, aptly titled “Perfectly a Strangeness,” sans humans, but starring three donkeys in an unnamed desert happening upon a cluster of hilltop observatories.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Twenty-five years ago this month, VH1 released an extremely loose TV movie adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, “A Christmas Carol,” aptly titled, “A Diva’s Christmas Carol.”
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
Let us study war as if it were, as Einstein aptly called it, an illness of childhood.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
