How to Use readily in a Sentence

readily

adverb
  • He readily agreed to help us.
  • Team owners readily agree that the first year of the game was rough.
    Ethan Davison, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Land in the bed of the L.A. River was bought readily — and some of it is still in private hands.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Those sweets are long gone, but the whisky is still readily available.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The heat and flames can readily penetrate their bark and reach the trees’ living cells.
    Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Equipped with strong suction, the vacuum readily sucks up dirt, dust, and debris around the home and in the car.
    Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The halls are decked across the theme parks and hotels, and seasonal food and drinks are readily available.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
  • All that data is readily available in the palm of your hand today.
    The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The swivel brush head is designed to readily lift up fine dust, crumbs, hair, and more debris.
    Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The space between the flesh and the fabric extends to the gap between the wearer and the beholder: The body is not readily apparent.
    E. Alex Jung, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • All that data is readily available in the palm of your hand today.
    Beryl Love, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
  • But the path the conflict takes could allow some residents to more readily get on with their lives.
    WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But, in the case of Europe’s major leagues, the threat is now readily apparent.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 17 May 2024
  • The herb is most readily available as a spice or supplement.
    Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 24 Mar. 2024
  • First, there’s free testosterone, which is readily available for cells to use.
    Ben Radding, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • There’s also not a readily available ride-share service in the area.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • How to Get Around Taxis and car rentals are readily available for visitors.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
  • For the entirety of the opioid overdose epidemic, the U.S. has had readily available tools that are proven to save lives.
    Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Most of the following food and drink items are readily available for purchase.
    Stacey Lastoe, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • That’s in part based on the belief that large blazes were once rare, so plants and animals don’t readily recover.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Choose a variety that’s readily available and a heat level that suits your taste.
    Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
  • What is far more readily available is the old Samsung Galaxy S7 phone in your drawer.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Both will readily take live bait and artificial lures, including many of the same baits and lures.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The kind of data the Hoaglands used to search for a new destination is readily available online.
    Susan B. Garland, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • And let it also be understood that the 911 is not readily available.
    Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
  • At Katmai, bears are drawn to the large number of salmon readily available from late June through September.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Leica's camera is the first readily available hardware to use the system.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • This was in stark contrast to present-day homes where valuable square footage would have been readily commandeered.
    Ken Fulk, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2024
  • In this way, the dining room is becoming a space for regular use and readily elevated for a more formal dinner party when necessary.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2024
  • And, indeed, another paper from 2018 found that flame retardants in black kitchen utensils readily migrate into hot cooking oil.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024

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