orally
- adverb
- /ˈɔrəli/
- And these were stories that have been told orally by lots of people for for generations.
- presented orally
- communicate orally
- transmitted orally
And sometimes if you can't be persuasive orally, your writing may be persuasive.
- And sometimes if you can't be persuasive orally, your writing may be persuasive.
- This is the pop quiz that's going to be given orally.
- That happened in two generations ago and so there has been a rightful message that has been passed down orally.
- Before Huell's reign, Welsh law was a jumble of regional customs passed down orally through the poems of bards.
- And I think if we can do this, see how it works orally.
Examples
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Ms. Gomez then asked her students to orally summarize their posters to establish a class claim.
Academic text (2013) -
Teachers responded to the items orally, while staff members immediately recorded answers on the response forms.
Academic text (1993) -
To get credit, you have to deliver it orally.
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As a whole class, students might orally practice the construction of an argument.
Academic text (2015) -
The student will show the hour on the clock, as instructed orally by the teacher.
Academic text (1992) -
You pass on your teachings orally.
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Choose one testimony from your group to be presented orally before the transportation committee.
Academic text (1992) -
And they were passed down orally for a while before they were written down after Muhammad's death.
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With practice, these students quickly were able to orally explain using manipulatives how to add fractions.
Academic text (1994) -
Ms. Gomez then asked her students to orally summarize their posters to establish a class claim.
Synonyms
In a voice that other people can hear
Using spoken words rather than writing
People tell others instead of writing
Spoken rather than written
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orally comes from a Latin root meaning 'mouth', written os/oris, and is the same root in oral and orator, people who speak. So to do something orally is to do it 'by spoken words'.