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

That’s a question usually put to criminal defendants and key players in a scandal, not the District Attorney’s office itself. — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

It's usually transmitted through a bite from a bat, coyote, fox, raccoon or skunk. — Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

This level of dysfunction usually requires a half-decade on the Raiders beat just to build up an immunity. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026

In 2022, a robot completed the work of a maintenance professional by repairing power lines in the Wuhan province; and over at a power facility in Guangzhou, humanoid helpers have already taken over inspection duties usually completed by workers. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above