Examples of sorely in a Sentence
You will be sorely missed.
She provided some sorely needed help.
The house is sorely in need of paint.
He is sorely lacking in social skills.
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Ideally, one of Vancouver’s two sorely needed big-ticket forward additions this summer will be a centre, but the need for high-end talent is greater than any positional need on the roster.
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Thomas Drance, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Romance and comedy are a pure dopamine hit and were sorely needed in 2024.
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On-site support is sorely lacking at the California Hotel, Allen said, leaving tenants to fend for themselves.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 2 June 2025
Focusing the series on a love affair between two Black teenagers also leans into the universality of Blume’s narrative—though her characters were predominantly white and upper-middle-class—and tells a new and sorely needed story about class status in LA and Black girlhood.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 14 May 2025
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Thomas Drance, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Romance and comedy are a pure dopamine hit and were sorely needed in 2024.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 June 2025
On-site support is sorely lacking at the California Hotel, Allen said, leaving tenants to fend for themselves.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 2 June 2025
Focusing the series on a love affair between two Black teenagers also leans into the universality of Blume’s narrative—though her characters were predominantly white and upper-middle-class—and tells a new and sorely needed story about class status in LA and Black girlhood.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 14 May 2025
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“Sorely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorely. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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sorely
adverb
sore·ly
ˈsō(ə)r-lē 
ˈsȯ(ə)r-
: in a sore manner
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