How to Use ably in a Sentence

ably

adverb
  • And Efron carries the whole thing ably on his shoulders.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Aimard ably carried us along through Beethoven’s twists and turns.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Merchant ably demonstrates the dire stakes of the Luddites’ plight.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Despite its small size, the TT ably met the needs of our family.
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023
  • Then, nearly a decade later, Miles stepped in, ably, to reboot him.
    Avery Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The economic case against this idea has already been ably made.
    Alexander Hughes, National Review, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The game ably captures the tone of the show, for a solid entry in Telltale’s gameography.
    WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023
  • With avionic modernizations, the aircraft will be ably to fly well into the 2030s, the Air Force said.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2 July 2021
  • To its credit, the reading was ably paced and scaled, with a good sense of connection between passages.
    Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Shatz discusses all this ably, but the book’s real triumph is to link Fanon’s life to the development of his ideas.
    Adam Shatz, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Within a year or so, Doumbo’s team was ably managing the trial.
    David A. Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
  • The book ably narrates this episode and adds a few hitherto unknown or lesser-known details.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Cameron Payne, who so ably filled in for Paul in the first two games, went down with a left ankle injury after playing four minutes and didn’t return.
    Beth Harris, ajc, 25 June 2021
  • He’s ably assisted by Ludwig Göransson’s score, which amps up the tension.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
  • As some of my colleagues on the Court, past and present, ably demonstrated, that decision was grievously wrong.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 June 2022
  • Besides, the Tony Scotts and Michael Bays of the world have on occasion ably crossed the streams of blue-collar authenticity and big-boom silliness.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • Each of the middle chapters largely focuses on the Usher sibling who is about to die, and Siegel, Kohli, Miller, and the others all ably carry those hours.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Then, the camera tracks with Bernstein as the set opens onto the orchestra, in a delirious shot that ably evokes the dizzying nature of his sudden rise to celebrity.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The seasonings Garlicky Tapatío and smoky Cholula are favorite hot sauces hot sauces for making chavela, though any brand will ably stand in.
    Miles Walls, Chron, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Because that part of the world ably handles such issues as health care and senior care, the tone of the article was somewhat buoyant, though the subject matter was not.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Finally, there’s the White House, where yes, the president has been managing the economy ably.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Smith ably proves just that, while sounding the alarm about experimentation run amok.
    Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Roku's flagship streaming stick product makes the jump into the UHD era with an easy-to-use dongle that ably delivers 4K content from a panoply of services.
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Rich Lowry, in his piece on this same subject, ably explains the physical differences between men and women.
    Robert M. Berg, National Review, 30 July 2021
  • Vikram David Amar and Akhil Amar have ably demonstrated in multiple articles.
    Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 20 June 2022
  • The Compass feels more agile than its tall, boxy profile would suggest, responding ably to inputs, and the steering is nicely weighted.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The hallucination part was ably demonstrated by Schwartz this month.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • Bond also finds his slot at MI6 having been ably occupied by a new agent (Lashana Lynch) who has inherited his 007 license.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Torres ably walks the line between establishing Skemes’ charisma and critiquing it.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Onstage, the band ably supported Ferry’s debonair persona.
    Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 2 Oct. 2022

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