How to Use crucially in a Sentence

crucially

adverb

• Most crucially, the tallest sapele trees emerge high above the canopy.
  — Jerome Lewis, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2020
• And, of course, most crucially, the queen is ready to return.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 May 2023
• In our hearts, our minds and – much less crucially – in memes and GIFs.
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
• And, crucially, would this Eileen survive to tell the tale?
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• But at the root of the worries is that the Kremlin’s view of the conflict has crucially changed.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2021
• The team also flew drones over 105 of the whales and measured each whale’s size and, crucially, the size of its mouth.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• How states should pay for this defense, crucially, is left up to the states.
  — Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
• But crucially, each item is more than suitable to wear on a video call from home.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Jan. 2023
• And, more crucially, has the michelada craze gotten out of hand?
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
• The tech was also, crucially, used in service of the story.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
• And crucially, the warning lights would go off too late to prevent those deaths.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
• But crucially, the Wuhan study only measured the amount of viral RNA in the air and on surfaces.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 19 Aug. 2020
• Ducharme scored a team-high 19 points that night and, most crucially, the game-winning layup with 1.6 seconds left.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• There are a great many fronts in the battle for the climate, and this is a crucially important flank.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 June 2021
• More crucially, Frank and Kirsten aren’t done being their old selves.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• In the past two years, 21 countries have signed that pact — but crucially, China and Russia have not and refuse to be bound by its rules.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 18 Dec. 2022
• More crucially, each coach would have to wonder: What if the other coach defects and doesn’t go along with it?
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• But crucially, the person who wields the Darksaber must win it in battle to be the rightful owner.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 28 Feb. 2023
• So, crucially, did the price of groceries, long one of the most painful categories for consumers.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• Her first instinct is always to flee, but she’s trained herself to stay calm and, crucially, to stay put.
  — Colleen Hagerty, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
• This is heavy on the tomatoes, while the crucially important peanuts in this salsa fade in the background.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2022
• And Gilead said its own study showed that five days worth of remdesivir worked just as well as 10 days—but, crucially, the study didn’t compare the drug to a placebo.
  — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 1 May 2020
• As crucially, the action sequences don’t stop the movie dead or make the rest of it seem irrelevant.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• And crucially, Arnault helped make the heritage brand hip.
  — Rory Satran, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
• And, crucially, there is not a panel of judges waiting to appraise the queens’ performance and send one of them home.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
• And to that end, the main hing was working with their hands—from physical work to music and crucially cooking.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 18 June 2022
• Telling the stories of the women was crucially important.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 10 June 2023
• The big question is if, when — and, crucially, why — companies raise prices.
  — NBC News, 12 May 2021
• But that stance hinges on a number of factors, most crucially that such levies lead to only a one-off increase in prices and that expectations across businesses and households remain in check.
  — Colby Smith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
• Only late last month did the EU suspend sanctions on Syria’s energy and banking sectors, most crucially Syria’s central bank.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2025