How to Use deliberately in a Sentence

deliberately

adverb
  • The good ones do it deliberately, the not-so-good ones less so.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • For now, the firm is small and deliberately so.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The off-white cloak caked in clay is deliberately drained of all color.
    — Emma Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Spend it deliberately, and the rest of the day tends to follow.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Move deliberately, and respect will grow around you in time.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And Reynolds deliberately chose to place it where folks can access it for free.
    — Adrienne Gibbs, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Make sure to move deliberately through each step to reap all its benefits.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This is why so many great writers swear by deliberately messy first passes.
    — Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The result is a nine-track record that plays out slowly and deliberately.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Wright had deliberately kept the Proxi crew small.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Speak and lead deliberately to earn trust and respect.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Here, things move a little more slowly and a lot more deliberately.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The ochre dot at the center was deliberately placed over the pebble to highlight what looks like a nose ridge.
    — Jay Kakade june 15, New Atlas, 15 June 2025
  • Move slowly and deliberately when close to a rattlesnake and back away to a safe distance.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Asghari keeps the details of the next eight years deliberately hazy.
    — Avery Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Walk deliberately, but not too fast.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • Such scenes become moving, even when the events behind them are deliberately no more than sketched out.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2023
  • But over the past several months, that type of fragile progress has been deliberately rolled back.
    — Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
  • On the next take, according to the suit, Goth deliberately kicked him in the head with her boot.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In warm years, that range of higher sites is being deliberately used to lift freshness.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • That was a message my parents taught my sisters and me very deliberately.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The ones that help clients think clearly, move deliberately and prepare for the rebound.
    — Marc Cooper, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • That drove many skiers to follow the powder more deliberately.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Kenady deliberately stopped short of second and tried to get in a rundown.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
  • In these cases, a person has to deliberately look at a scanner.
    — Jonathan S. Weissman, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The issue here is not whether the city is deliberately hiding anything.
    — Jamie Kalven, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Which means those mechanisms have to be built deliberately, from the outside in.
    — Joe Kiani, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The best results use both, deliberately, within the same process.
    — Jakob Freund, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • But police believed the knife had been deliberately placed in Matthew's hand.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 18 July 2025
  • Yes, the apps on your phone are deliberately addictive, a jury rules.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026

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