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adverb

normally

CEFR B1

under normal conditions

In a sentence

Six example sentences with normally, each labelled with its topic.

  • The dough normally doubles in two hours, but a cold kitchen can stretch that to most of an afternoon.

    Cooking

  • The server normally answers in forty milliseconds, so anything above a second means the cache has been cleared.

    Technology

  • This lens normally focuses to half a meter, though the extension tube brings it much closer for small subjects.

    Photography

  • The arena normally empties in twenty minutes, but the overtime crowd lingered on the concourse for an hour.

    Basketball

  • A resting pulse normally sits between sixty and one hundred, so the nurse noted the reading of forty-five.

    Medicine

  • The market normally opens quietly on a Monday, so the flood of sell orders at the bell caught the desk off guard.

    Finance

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