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How to use the word properly in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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If the system could stop for Gina, the system could not work properly for this killer, then surely the system had to change, we know it’s not going to affect the Parkland shooter; it’s not going to affect my family. But future families – why should they suffer like we have?

– Tony Montalto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Oil spills can never be cleaned up properly. There’s always going to be something stuck, something left behind, especially in this area which is one of the largest centers of marine biodiversity in the country.

– Greenpeace Philippines campaigner Jefferson Chua

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you take a photograph that is in focus, properly exposed, moody and powerful, it creates a visceral reaction, it has to be beautiful and engaging, it has to invite you in … and it has to have a conservation message.

– Paul Nicklen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they’re being managed properly, apparently, then we wouldn’t be seeing dramatic drops of kangaroos in areas which aren’t even particularly rural farmland.

– Mark Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For his exact mutation, if you think about DNA, you have two copies of everything. He has one good copy and one abnormal copy. Not only is his bad copy improperly functioning, it’s also preventing the healthy copy from functioning properly, a knockdown ASO would target the abnormal copy of the gene, by preventing it from turning into the abnormal protein, without affecting the healthy copy.

– Christelle Achkar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we are seeing here is definitely telling us something is wrong in those buildings, and it can be that they weren’t designed in line with the code in the first place, or the implementation wasn’t designed properly.

– Yasemin Didem Aktas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In creating the new series, it was important to us that we properly reflect the world that kids today live in so that the series can deliver meaningful lessons about navigating it, with our modern take on New York CNN Barney, we hope to inspire the next generation to listen, care, and dream big.

– Fred Soulie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we are seeing here is definitely telling us something is wrong in those buildings, and it can be that they were n’t designed in line with the code in the first place, or the implementation was n’t designed properly, we are also seeing in Turkey quite commonly that post-occupancy modifications on buildings compromise their structural safety. ! function() {.

– Didem Aktas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New technologies always come with new risks and we as a society will have to address them, such as implementing acceptable use policies and educating the general public about how to use them properly. Guidelines will be needed.

– Bern Elliot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ideally, you want to do a quick lap around the store to make sure there’s enough space in the toebox and your heel is properly supported.

– Rami Hashish

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I actually started looking into CTE – all of the work that they’ve done with the footballers in America, she had every single symptom and more, it was quite obvious to me that there was a definite link in her starting to get into dark places and feeling bad and anxious and not sleeping properly. All of those symptoms … Every one that’s involved in CTE was part of Ellie’s life.

– Tony Soutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Either he’s got a check he hasn’t turned into us that is properly payable to PMPED or he’s received a check payable to him.

– Jeanne Seckinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have an obligation of using all the tools properly to keep citizens safe.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I expected more pushback than we received, which is attributed to us really focusing on how we properly word these questions, i think it’s because we turn it into a neutral conversation, and we focus on safety and prevention.

– Lindsay Clukies

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the Gen Z and Millennial cohorts are both lucrative and interesting, there is something of an obsession with them in retail and fashion that is often to the detriment of older generations, the truth is that more mature cohorts account for a lot of retail spending and there is a significant opportunity that is not always properly addressed.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The truth is that more mature cohorts account for a lot of retail spending and there is a significant opportunity that is not always properly addressed.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I support the decision to appoint a special counsel, properly handling classified information is crucial to national security. Any time classified material is found where it is not supposed to be, The Justice Department must do a thorough investigation.

– Adam Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’ve seen time and again that people’s beliefs and emotions about what works can be wildly wrong, and so the best thing to do is to evaluate these things properly in trials.

– Peter Horby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The core of a virtuous economic cycle lies in wage growth, and must be realized at all costs. Companies must generate profits and then properly distribute them to workers, consumption will grow, business investment will grow and further promote economic growth.

– Fumio Kishida

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have discovered numerous remains of other animals with cutmarks in Schöningen such as horses and aurochs, with cutmarks related to skinning. Nonetheless, the highly insulating properties of bear skins, together with the fact that the hides are more flexible when treated properly, makes bear skins much more suitable for clothing than other large herbivores.

– Ivo Verheijen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see a lot of potential. This had to happen. We had to get this Band-Aid ripped off so we could see how bad this really was so that maybe we can fix it properly.

– Mac Isaac

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Cases do exist, but they’re not huge in volume, our elections are working properly. The system is working. And part of that is having people investigate these situations and hold people accountable when the law has been broken.

– Phil McGrane

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The District Court properly applied existing law in an extensive opinion with no apparent errors for our correction.

– John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's what we're fighting for -- safe, properly maintained and fully resourced schools where the air conditioning and heating works, and students don't have to suffer.

– Courtney Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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