thankfully

adverb thank·ful·ly \ ˈthaŋk-f(ə-)lē \

|Updated on: 6 Jun 2018

Examples: thankfully in a Sentence

Definition of thankfully

1 : in a thankful manner

spoke thankfully

2 : as makes one thankful

graceless stadiums … thankfully going out of fashion
—R. G. Echevarriá

thankfully, those opinions are advanced with graceful prose
—Ken Auletta

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Examples of thankfully in a Sentence

The instructions were thankfully simple.
I always receive your calls thankfully.

Recent Examples of thankfully from the Web

The centuries-old estate had its cottages refurbished in the 1960s and installed a sewage system — so there will be no royal jaunts to the outhouse, thankfully — and there's no shortage of things to do nearby.

— candace braun davison, House Beautiful, "Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Apparently Leased A New Weekend Home," 31 May 2018
Unlike the pretext forbidding Rubin’s rightful claim, Bell is thankfully still alive and continues to rack up awards, though none as prestigious as the Nobel (even though nothing in the Nobel statutes precludes her from winning one).

— brian keating, WIRED, "There's Nothing Noble about Science’s Nobel Prize Gender Gap," 27 May 2018
And thankfully, Claire Foy is a very easy person to get along with.

— caroline hallemann, Town & Country, "Henry Higgins Is an Unlikeable Guy—And Harry Hadden-Paton Knows It," 8 May 2018
Ferrell was thankfully able to redeem himself during the episode by way of sports.

— abby jones, Billboard, "Will Ferrell Tries Serenading Eva Longoria to Tears With 'My Heart Will Go On': Watch," 3 May 2018
To be fair, teens and adults are thankfully not the same, so the exact details of this study could be misleading.

— angela chen, The Verge, "Please don’t use this study to justify your horrible habit of using two spaces after periods," 30 Apr. 2018
Expect food, wine, and (thankfully) English subtitles.

— brittany martin, Los Angeles Magazine, "The 8 Most Interesting Things to Do in L.A. This Weekend," 18 Apr. 2018
But more to the point, while Facebook is now, thankfully, taking some steps to address the worst outlier behavior taking place on its platform in Myanmar, the core problem is that even non-extreme cases of heavy Facebook use seem harmful.

— matthew yglesias, Vox, "The case against Facebook," 9 Apr. 2018
The city hasn't installed any new bike racks since 2016, but that snag, thankfully, should be ending soon, and thousands of new racks should be coming in the next five years.

— john greenfield, Chicago Reader, "Thousands of new bike racks coming to city after ‘incredibly annoying’ 18-month snag," 14 May 2018

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