How to Use duly in a Sentence

duly

adverb

• The singer duly appeared back on stage for an encore.
• They were duly impressed by her speech.
• The objections were duly noted.
• Nadal was duly broken to trail 5-3 and the set was done.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 4 July 2019
• This was thought to be the worst-case outcome for the British pound, which duly sold off sharply on the news.
  — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017
• The county duly filed four new sets of charges against JK.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 15 Jan. 2020
• The find was duly recorded, its seeds saved, the tree named for his good friend, Ben Franklin.
  — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2021
• When South drew trumps and led a heart, West took the ace and duly led a low club, and East won with the king and cashed the jack of spades.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
• This is a rapist’ and thus duly inform the rapist’s girlfriend.
  — Jenessa Abrams, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
• The Gooner then asks for a hug instead - and Wenger duly obliges.
  — SI.com, 14 May 2018
• But Michael Blagg was not among them -- a fact duly noted in town.
  — Susan Mallie, CBS News, 12 May 2018
• Dallas lost, so the man duly put a match to his jersey.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• The share price duly rallied and has since hit a yearly high.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2017
• West duly led the nine of spades, and dummy’s ten covered.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• Huawei claims two days of battery life with the P20 Pro, and the phone duly delivers.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
• The words are duly translated and Kim Jong-Un beams, as if to say, Dude, this guy gets it.
  — Alex Siquig, GQ, 16 Mar. 2018
• The politicians of the Inland Empire have been duly warned.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the months since, A-listers have duly been championing the fiery shade on the red carpet.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 19 July 2023
• That, too, seemed like a no-brainer at the time, and the court duly held that Clinton could not be treated as above the law.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• East duly ruffed with the seven of trumps, and declarer had to overruff with the jack.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• He was later named to the Hall as a coach, only the fifth person to be duly honored.
  — Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2022
• After awarding the penalty, Ramos duly stepped up to put the Madrid side ahead once again.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
• As the earth opened up to swallow those rebelling against Moshe (Moses), the Jews seemed duly impressed.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 19 June 2017
• Even if only some of the projects come to fruition, vast stretches of land would be duly transformed.
  — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• Manson comparisons are duly made in the press due to the cult-like trappings of these deeds.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 June 2023
• In the past, a president duly elected by the people was presumed fit for the job.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Oct. 2019
• Simonides duly refused to board the ship, which sank, within sight of shore, with all souls aboard.
  — A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Brazilian duly crossed for Harry Kane to tap in the equalizer.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
• Yes, he was duly elected, but only by the slimmest of margins.
  — Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 13 May 2017
• Guitarist Joe Duplantier howled the lyrics like a man possessed (or something more demonic) with a brooding magnetism duly reinforced by dressing all in black.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024