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
• Could any of the actual cast ably fill the election-season role?
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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
• The high school diploma ably served the industrial age, but now students need the skills to succeed in the digital age.
  — Rahm Emanuel, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• 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
• Our only downside was the price, and that problem is ably solved with a massive $1387 discount for a limited time.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
• 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
• More importantly, the Ioniq 5 N ably recycles the hands-on thrills that have gone missing in many EVs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The erosion of human rights across the region is ably explored in a volume of essays edited by Meijer and Butenschon.
  — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• 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
• On the other hand, the Fleishman finale is a beautiful piece of writing adapted ably for the screen by Brodesser-Akner, who wrote the novel.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
• 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
• For now, Michelle and I just want to express our love and gratitude to Joe and Jill for leading us so ably and courageously during these perilous times — and for their commitment to the ideals of freedom and equality that this country was founded on.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024