duly

adverb du·ly \ ˈdü-lē also ˈdyü- \

|Updated on: 20 Aug 2018

Examples: duly in a Sentence

Definition of duly

: in a due manner or time : properly

a duly elected official

Your comments are duly noted.

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Examples of duly in a Sentence

They were duly impressed by her speech.
The objections were duly noted.
The singer duly appeared back on stage for an encore.

Recent Examples of duly from the Web

The signal was duly noted, Clinton's advisor for North Korea, Wendy Sherman, recalled in an interview with NBC News Friday.

— NBC News, "Why North Korea's 'special delivery' letter was so warmly received in the Oval Office," 1 June 2018
With that disclaimer duly noted, here are SI.com’s grades for every coaching change in the six high-major conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC), plus two other prominent programs outside of that group.

— chris johnson, SI.com, "Grading the Major-Conference Moves of the College Hoops Coaching Carousel," 17 Apr. 2018
After Roe has been duly chipped away at, an outright reversal would look more plausible.

— dylan matthews, Vox, "America under Brett Kavanaugh," 11 July 2018
Judges duly appoint an attorney, selecting from one of the two normally present in the court.

— hamza hendawi, Washington Post, "A neighbor’s word can bring death sentence in Iraq IS trials," 9 July 2018
Judges duly appoint an attorney, selecting from one of the two normally present in the court.

— hamza hendawi, Fox News, "A neighbor's word can bring death sentence in Iraq IS trials," 9 July 2018
Seconds later, Tadic took the ball past left-back Ricardo Rodriguez, cut back on his favoured left foot and delivered a majestic cross that Mitrovic duly buried with his head.

— patrick galey, chicagotribune.com, "Xhaka, Shaqiri lead Switzerland to comeback victory over Serbia," 22 June 2018
Every piece of information could be traced to its origin, every alteration duly recorded, and everyone properly compensated.

— david scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, "Why Facebook and Google should pay you for your data," 14 June 2018
Acting by qualified-majority vote, as the new regulations permitted, the EU’s Council of Ministers duly suspended development-fund money to Poland in October 2020.

— The Economist, "Breaking point: December 2020," 5 July 2018

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