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in a stable solid fixed manner
the boulder was balanced stably at the edge of the canyon -
in a stable unchanging manner
the death rate in Russia has been stably high
How To Use stably In A Sentence
- This is a fact the significance of which cannot escape anyone, and one which incontestably marks an epoch from the point of view of chemists. Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
- This situation was detestably rectified, as could be clearly seen in face as she jarred forward.
- Oh! he was spiteful, acrid, savage; and, as a natural consequence, detestably ugly. Villette
- Some measures were taken to ensure the fan operating safely and stably.
- All of you that take the time to be so pompous and detestably smug about this and the like are inept . Think Progress » Ted Haggard on homosexuality:
- Lots of loyal customers mean stably increasing saleroom, low sale cost and continually ascending gains for enterprises.
- Reveillon by St. Gervais) -- I say if any of these comforters of the living anywhere grace the earth, you shall find my master Rabelais giving you the very innermost and animating spirit of all these good things, their utter flavour and their saving power in the quintessential words of his incontestably regalian lips. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
- A DNA substrate containing a thymidine kinase gene fused to a neomycin-resistance gene was stably integrated into cells.
- Now the stack is running stably and effectively in the telemedicine system.
- (pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were _not fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest