How to Use ably in a Sentence

ably

adverb

• Aimard ably carried us along through Beethoven’s twists and turns.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
• Walker replaced Smith in the post and ably picked up the slack.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
• The economic case against this idea has already been ably made.
  — Alexander Hughes, National Review, 13 Aug. 2023
• This unique baseball record must be earned on the field, as the Sox did so ably last year.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
• Could any of the actual cast ably fill the election-season role?
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Aug. 2024
• Mathis is talented and ably filled a role — albeit a small one — last year.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 23 May 2025
• To his credit, Edwards has performed ably as a starter in the last two bouts.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
• Twigs ably fills the role but is not given the kind of acting showcase Cage has here.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
• Then, nearly a decade later, Miles stepped in, ably, to reboot him.
  — Avery Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• Merchant ably demonstrates the dire stakes of the Luddites’ plight.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
• Despite its small size, the TT ably met the needs of our family.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023
• Utah is dynamic in transition and controls play ably at five-on-five.
  — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
• Emerging from nowhere to the speakership, Johnson has filled the role ably.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Jan. 2025
• The book ably narrates this episode and adds a few hitherto unknown or lesser-known details.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• To its credit, the reading was ably paced and scaled, with a good sense of connection between passages.
  — Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2022
• Within a year or so, Doumbo’s team was ably managing the trial.
  — David A. Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2021
• Nevertheless, Vincent and the cast around her ably ground the story again.
  — David Opie, IndieWire, 3 Apr. 2025
• When the film really flips its tone about halfway through, O’Connor ably carries that twist.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
• Chow’s book very interestingly and ably adds to the many books already out about the rush into crypto, and the many ahead.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• The game ably captures the tone of the show, for a solid entry in Telltale’s gameography.
  — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023
• The former Liverpool winger then picked out Mostafa Ziko, who finished ably.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
• The high school diploma ably served the industrial age, but now students need the skills to succeed in the digital age.
  — Rahm Emanuel, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• He’s ably assisted by Ludwig Göransson’s score, which amps up the tension.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
• And Yokohama ably depicts a privileged young man who rightly views his good fortune as both blessing and curse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• Martha, again in the mid-1990s, ably demonstrating the only proper way to prune an unruly tree.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
• Shatz discusses all this ably, but the book’s real triumph is to link Fanon’s life to the development of his ideas.
  — Adam Shatz, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• As some of my colleagues on the Court, past and present, ably demonstrated, that decision was grievously wrong.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 June 2022
• It’s all done with verve and velocity, ably capturing the Looney Tunes spirit.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
• This latest entry ably expands the palette without messing with the formula.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
• Marcus Smart, who didn’t take a shot in the first three quarters, ably stepped into an open corner three in the fourth for the first of his seven points down the stretch.
  — Dan Woike, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2026