dependent
adjective
relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
dependently
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a word derived from
dependent.
Example Sentences
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“We must allow these supplies reliably, repetitively and dependently into Gaza.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
But the boy was still a child, clinging so dependently to Addie, with his rather girlish affection, with his shyness, which placed confidence in Addie only....
From Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus
Write five sentences in which would is used independently, and five in which would is used dependently.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood
That is a mistake; they are dependently rich.
From The Price of a Soul by William Jennings Bryan
And yet but now they were charged with “getting it” too dependently, or rather, with having it “got” for them by man!
From Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
