adverb
definition
In a manner which makes the fact or conclusion evident; obviously; as may be clearly inferred.
definition
In such a way as to be clearly visible or manifest; distinctly, clearly.
definition
Apparently
Examples of evidently in a Sentence
He had evidently decided to hang back a little longer.
The next morning she was very docile, but evidently homesick.
He had never heard of "talking-gloves"; but I explained that she had seen a glove on which the alphabet was printed, and evidently thought they could be bought.
He evidently tried to find something to say, but failed.
Evidently some jolly excitement was going on there.
He tossed the mail on the counter and walked out the back door – evidently in search of someone he wanted to talk to.
She was very still for a few minutes, evidently thinking earnestly.
This expression evidently pleased him.
Evidently Pierre's words touched her to the quick.
The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use.
The new movement was evidently anti-Assyrian, and strenuous endeavours were made to present a united front.
This flora, isolated by arid country from the rest of the continent, has evidently derived its plant life from an outside source, probably from lands no longer existing.
Evidently he had wanted to talk.
Evidently it was Randy Byrne.
He stayed so long that Princess Mary and Natasha exchanged glances, evidently wondering when he would go.
Evidently Natasha needed to tell that painful yet joyful tale.
And evidently suppressing his vexation with difficulty, he turned away from the boy.
He had evidently not slept that night.
The officer evidently had complete control of his face, and while Kutuzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression.
Evidently these fugitives were allowed to pass by special permission.
Three men, at three separate tables, evidently on the road for business, were all dining alone.
The writer claims to have treated his subject impartially, and though written from the narrow point of view of one to whom Monophysite "orthodoxy" was all-important, it is evidently a faithful reproduction of events as they occurred.
He left nothing in doubt if experiment would decide it, and he evidently did not consider that he had fully investigated any compound until he could both unmake and remake it.
This is also evidently the Olympic cubit; and, in pursuance of the decimal multiple of the digit found in Egypt and Persia, the cubit of 25 digits was (1/4)th of the orguia of 100 digits, the series being --
It was therefore equal to 79,200 in., and divided decimally into 10 furlongs 100 chains, or 1000 fathoms. For the existence of this fathom (half the Belgic pertica) we have the proof of its half, or yard, needing to be suppressed by statute (9) in 1439, as "the yard and full hand," or about 40 in., -- evidently the yard of the most usual old English foot of 13.22, which would be 39.66.
Pliny states the Egyptian talent at 80 librae = 396,000; evidently = the Abydus lion talent, which is divided by 100, and the mina is therefore 3960, or 50 x 79.2.
The largest weight is the "wood" talent of Syria (18) = 6 Roman talents, or 1,860,000, evidently 120 Antioch minae of 15,500 or 2 x 7750.
They were energetic and warlike and evidently had not reached the zenith of their power when Cortes came.
The builders of Casas Grandes, in Chihuahua, evidently belonged to the Pueblo tribes of Arizona and New Mexico.
The total number of "aucas " or uncivilized Indians in the republic has been estimated at about 200,000, but this estimate covered a larger area than Ecuador actually occupies and is evidently too high.
The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in which he found himself.
Prince Andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of Pierre's remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to go.
Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with difficulty.
The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type of face, evidently worn out with childbearing--she had had twelve.
It can't be helped! said the count, shrugging his shoulders and speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him.
Olga, go and see whether Uncle's beef tea is ready--it is almost time, she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance.
The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasili's eyes evidently resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till morning.
Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.
Found in Asia Minor and northern Greece, it does not appear unreasonable to connect it, as Hultsch does, with the Belgic foot of the Tungri, which was legalized (or perhaps introduced) by Drusus when governor, as 1/8 longer than the Roman foot, or 13.07; this statement was evidently an approximation by an increase of 2 digits, so that the small difference from 13.3 is not worth notice.
Denisov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it.
Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell somewhere beyond them.
He had an intellectual and distinctive head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and habitual to him.
Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked at Prince Andrew, evidently considering something.
Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a caleche.
Kozlovski's face looked worn--he too had evidently not slept all night.
Just facing it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schon Grabern could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were evidently in the village itself and behind the hill.
And the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, laughed.
Officers who approached him with disturbed countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display their courage before him.
The moral hesitation which decided the fate of battles was evidently culminating in a panic.
Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was evidently forced.