adverb
definition
Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
example
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
definition
Under normal conditions.
Examples of usually in a Sentence
His usually calm face showed excitement.
I'm usually quite tired the next day.
In my dreams I'm usually in trouble.
They don't usually do that.
Generally speaking, if something sounded too good to be true, it usually was.
You usually lie like a bragging fisherman, so I stopped asking.
They usually run when they hear you coming.
I don't usually eat breakfast.
They usually spent the morning hours in the garden and the afternoon at the pool.
It simply didn't make sense, and Josh was usually all about sense.
Bill usually came over in the evening to help, and sometimes Sean or Paul.
Cynthia, usually much more reserved, was as excited as Dean could remember.
We go home about dinner-time usually, and Helen is eager to tell her mother everything she has seen.
Any admission by her usually means a lot more than what she says.
Any given nation usually has a large amount of homogeneity.
Usually when he awoke with a hard-on and a woman in his bed, what happened next was pretty straightforward.
Not really, I usually stay away from locals.
Indeed, when some friend is trying to speak to Miss Keller, and the attempt is not proving successful, Miss Sullivan usually helps by spelling the lost words into Miss Keller's hand.
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
As a result of the hostility between Kutuzov and Bennigsen, his Chief of Staff, the presence of confidential representatives of the Emperor, and these transfers, a more than usually complicated play of parties was going on among the staff of the army.
Usually there were few cars at the site but now, with the early festival climbers in town, the parking lot at the curve of the county road was filled.
Just thinking a guy's a jerk doesn't usually result in your killing him.
Usually, he was simply Alex – as exciting as that might be.
When we talk about it in terms of scarcity, we usually mean clean water in a certain location is scarce.
He was evidently distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features.
Dolokhov, who did not usually care for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon settled.
This sort of thing is usually done via the witness protection program but I once heard of a situation where fake papers were assembled independent of any government agency.
She snuggled next to him, usually an invitation for love, but tonight he sensed she just wanted to be held.
Alex usually insisted they leave the mare alone, only checking on her now and then.
All seven hits were singles and all were in routs, usually by the other side.
Once in a while they did things together socially, usually to fulfill mandated coupling at necessary functions and seldom for the entertainment of either.
I lied to Bobby—told him dad lent the car to a friend while he took the train into Philly, like he usually does.
He didn't usually bark at the deer and Alex wouldn't like it if he started chasing them now.
That was usually during the winter when he wasn't so busy and had more energy.
Of course, it usually didn't happen at her age.
After purchasing a conservative blouse and jeans of quality, she moved on to a less crowded grocery store than the budget one she usually used.
For months, he'd black out several times a day and wake up somewhere else, usually with the room around him in shambles.
It is evident that the normal blue is more or less diluted with extraneous white light, having its origin in reflections from the grosser particles of foreign matter with which the air is usually charged.
Dubos, but singularly transforming it, he maintained that those invasions were not marked by the violent and destructive character usually attributed to them; that the penetration of the German barbarians into Gaul was a slow process; that the Germans submitted to the imperial administration; that the political institutions of theMerovingians had their origins in the Roman laws at least as much as, if not more than, in German usages; and, consequently, that there was no conquest of Gaul by the Germans.
Yet the boldness and the splendour of the nebular theory have always given it a dignity not usually attached to a doctrine which from the very nature of the case can have but little direct evidence in its favour.
I go up in a balloon, usually, to draw the crowds to the circus.
I find even the smallest child excellent company, and I am glad to say that children usually like me.
After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the dust of labor from my person, or smoothed out the last wrinkle which study had made, and for the afternoon was absolutely free.
She shook off the rain in the doorway and crossed to the small booth near the bar that she and her father usually shared.
He was usually paid in advance.
By coalescence of the endoderm-layers, the coelenteron may be reduced to vessels, usually eight in number, opening into a ring-sinus surrounding the pore.
The hind-wings, when developed, are characteristic in form, possessing a sub-costal nervure with which the reduced radial nervure usually becomes associated.
The feelers are usually longer in the male than in the female, exceeding in some cases by many times the length of the body.
Crystals of barytes are orthorhombic and isomorphous with the strontium and lead sulphates (celestite and anglesite); they are usually very perfectly developed and present great variety of form.
This apparatus is usually known under the name of the lateral organs.