How to Use crucially in a Sentence

crucially

adverb

• The big question is if, when — and, crucially, why — companies raise prices.
  — NBC News, 12 May 2021
• 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
• Their only job is to send encrypted messages with other users on the same network while staying, crucially, out of sight of law enforcement.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2021
• Jira became the first major agency of its kind in the country, addressing a crucially underserved area.
  — Alice Birrell, Vogue, 3 June 2021
• These characters dwell at the gates of difference and, crucially, have no interest in residing anywhere else.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• Perhaps most crucially, Sandberg helped normalize talking about gender in the workplace at all.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 7 June 2021
• These kinds of emotional wounds naturally take time to heal and, crucially, no one is owed reconciliation.
  — Fortesa Latifi, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
• But crucially, the announcement is just an agreement across all the member states, but EU countries can decide not to follow along or put their own travel restrictions in place.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The cash that the studio pays for the rights to the movie is the revenue shown in the UK company's financial statements and, crucially, its expenses are the film's total costs.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• But the ad, just like the candidate behind it, is trying to do so much work—to speak to frazzled parents and to worried seniors and, crucially, to women eager to preserve sovereignty over their bodies and lives.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024