Usage examples for namely:

• They decided to go the way they had come, namely to follow the tracks to the crossing and then turn off for home. "The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship" – Margaret Burnham

• Then Frank, Jones's right- hand man, put into execution a plan he had been thinking of- namely to travel by night. "The Last of the Plainsmen" – Zane Grey

• Now I find them joined in the mention of them with Solomon's drinking vessels, and since as they were made of fine or pure gold, I take them also to be vessels of the same kind, namely vessels to drink in. "The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3" – John Bunyan

• We note here a curious circumstance; namely that Hawthorne appears to have lost the art of writing short sketches. "The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne" – Frank Preston Stearns