How to Use readily in a Sentence
readily
adverb- He readily agreed to help us.
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Team owners readily agree that the first year of the game was rough.
—Ethan Davison, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
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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
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By winter the seed pods are easy to open and the seeds readily separate from the pulp.
—Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
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Those sweets are long gone, but the whisky is still readily available.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2023
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The heat and flames can readily penetrate their bark and reach the trees’ living cells.
—Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
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Asked about the delays, HUD cites the lack of a readily available source of funding.
—Mike Smith, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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All that data is readily available in the palm of your hand today.
—The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
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The swivel brush head is designed to readily lift up fine dust, crumbs, hair, and more debris.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
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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
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All that data is readily available in the palm of your hand today.
—Beryl Love, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
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As the sport has boomed, all of that has become more readily available than ever.
—Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
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But the path the conflict takes could allow some residents to more readily get on with their lives.
—WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
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But, in the case of Europe’s major leagues, the threat is now readily apparent.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 17 May 2024
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The herb is most readily available as a spice or supplement.
—Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 24 Mar. 2024
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First, there’s free testosterone, which is readily available for cells to use.
—Ben Radding, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
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There’s also not a readily available ride-share service in the area.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
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The analysis showed they were made not from readily available deer and beaver bones, as assumed, but from the bones of humans and bears.
—Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
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If there was an aircraft that's maybe not readily available or not flying in the world, still, not allowed to shoot blank sky.
—Kara Warner, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2022
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How to Get Around Taxis and car rentals are readily available for visitors.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024
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That same trend is readily apparent with free agents as well.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
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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
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Most of the following food and drink items are readily available for purchase.
—Stacey Lastoe, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
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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
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Choose a variety that’s readily available and a heat level that suits your taste.
—Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
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What is far more readily available is the old Samsung Galaxy S7 phone in your drawer.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
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The note sent around 11 a.m. Friday, which was the most substantive communication from the jury so far, asked for more copies of wiretap transcripts and stipulations, a request that was readily granted.
—Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Neither wanted to talk to IndieWire about the rapidly rising controversy (Leone didn’t respond to our request either), but their progressive views have been readily visible online for months.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Feb. 2025
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