usually

adverb

usu·​al·​ly ˈyü-zhə-wə-lē 

-zhə-lē;

ˈyüzh-wə-lē, 

ˈyüzh-lē

: according to the usual or ordinary course of things : most often : as a rule : customarily, ordinarily

a trip that usually takes an hour

a time of year when the weather is usually hot

On weekdays, I usually biked alone around San Francisco.

—Oliver Sacks

To establish a new epoch, geologists usually have to find clear evidence in the rock record of a massive, planet-altering shift.

—Gayathri Vaidyanathan

Celebrity outbursts are usually so outrageous that the average person can't really relate to them.

—Kyra Kyles

These chemicals usually do not kill the insects: a plant does not care whether predators die; it just wants them to go away and not come back.

—Mark P. Mattson

Synonyms of usually

• normally
• typically

Examples of usually in a Sentence

we usually go out to eat on Fridays

Recent Examples on the Web

Everyone hears for weeks about how improved the team is in spring training, and any stumbles out of the gate usually lead to serial harrumphing. —Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026

For drivers, trolley lanes are hard to miss, usually accompanied by street-level tracks on the roads and a sort of pulley mechanism that keeps the cars in line. —Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026

Set the scene Fogo Island is hard to get to, but then again, the best places on earth usually are. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2026

At Larkin, Williams was diagnosed not with worsening dementia but with schizophrenia, whose onset usually occurs in the late teens or early 20s. —Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above