safely
without harm or injury: The travel team has arrived safely and on schedule.
without risk or danger: While we sit safely in our air-conditioned homes complaining, he’s driving across the country working for change.
in a way that protects from loss, damage, or harm: I wanted that piece of paper safely filed away, just in case I needed to look at it again.
without likelihood of being wrong; with reasonable assurance: I think we can safely say that the zoo expects some puma kittens later this year!
Origin of safely
1Other words from safely
- qua·si-safe·ly, adverb
- su·per·safe·ly, adverb
- un·safe·ly, adverb
Words Nearby safely
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How to use safely in a sentence
As entomologists, we believe that introducing insects in the classroom, paired with teaching students about insect behavior and environmental roles, will give students a safe place to observe and appreciate these organisms.
Insects can be the ultimate teaching tool for kids | By Kawahara, Ennes & Markee/The Conversation | November 20, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt’s to focus on all the measures that will keep them — and their families, friends and neighbors — safe outside the classroom.
Schools are not spreading covid-19. This new data explains why. | Emily Oster | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostI’m there to learn, I’m there to feel safe, and I just didn’t.
Virginia chemistry teacher asked students to insert ‘neon . . . neck’ to describe how George Floyd died | Hannah Natanson | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostIt would be safe to assume that Romney would be one of those two Republicans.
Just because an attempt to steal an election is ludicrous and ham-handed doesn’t mean it can’t work | Philip Bump | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostIt’s the cost of keeping a society safe so that soon we can throw away the masks, smile with more than our eyes and hug tight the people who are suffering most of all.
The pandemic isn’t ending anytime soon. And our bodies are feeling the stress. | Petula Dvorak | November 19, 2020 | Washington Post
Had they been properly trained, they could and should have flown themselves safely out of the emergency.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWith the midterm elections safely in the rearview mirror, Obama is on legacy patrol.
The Affordable Care Act is safely embedded, with repeal unlikely even with a freshly minted Republican Senate.
Or bold stands that may not preserve our security today or tomorrow, but keep our principles safely intact?
When you are safely out, you give your password to the smuggler who calls it in to the broker to release the funds.
Inside the Smuggling Networks Flooding Europe with Refugees | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe do not know here what became of her, whether she was lost or arrived safely in Nueva España.
Immediately Messa went up the stairs, and safely reached a large room where two candles were burning on a buffet.
Next morning Rome rang with the affair; by noon all three Englishmen were safely over the frontier.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsThis is one of the truths which sloth, rapacity and extravagance are slow to learn, yet which they cannot safely ignore.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyAnd it may safely be said that with its improvement, has arisen also the extension and wide spread practice of music generally.
Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph Pearce
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