How to Use effectively in a Sentence

effectively

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• Try to communicate your ideas more effectively.
• The Sanders campaign, held to less than 40 percent of the vote, was effectively over.
  — Ross Barkan, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• The sports watch is effectively the opposite of a dress watch.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
• That's where celebrities use it as a stage effectively to show off their fame and their wealth.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
• The key is knowing how to prepare them, and then how to use them effectively in the moment.
  — Allison Shapira, Harvard Business Review, 2 Dec. 2024
• The decision effectively keeps the court out of the case for now and could mean the case's March 4 trial date could be delayed.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
• With more than two-thirds of homes now destroyed, much of Gaza is effectively gone.
  — Salwan Georges, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• The lower third of the Eagles’ lineup was able to effectively reach base.
  — Paul Shepherd, The Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2023
• This helps your body float to the surface of water more effectively.
  — Joe Jackson, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
• The treatment effectively removed all the oil buildup on my skin and tightened my pores.
  — Larry Stansbury, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
• The shift led to a monthslong back and forth between the House and Senate that effectively stalled the funding process.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
• That trains the glutes more effectively and keeps the lift more dynamic in nature.
  — Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
• But effectively Hamas was contained in the Gaza Strip and almost severed from the rest of Palestine.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• Swift then receives word that the distressed party is effectively out of the woods.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 11 June 2024
• The girls walked to the southeast end of the bridge, at which point the trail effectively ends, petering out into the undergrowth.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
• The growth of gangs has been aided by the country’s prison system, which is effectively controlled by them.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2024
• So that probably helped a lot of them to use it more effectively across the entire roster.
  — Jeffrey L. Wilson, PCMAG, 14 Aug. 2023
• Now that the policy is effectively dead, what comes next?
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Setting the bulbs a little deeper in the ground also means the plant effectively uses the soil as support for the next season's stem.
  — Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2023
• So many westerns are effectively road movies, which is sort of your subgenre.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• On the other hand, while this tool did effectively de-puff our faces in the moment, this was a more temporary achievement.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Things can become more complex if someone who starts the fight backs off in the middle of it — effectively tapping out.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 8 Mar. 2024
• The final 12 minutes were effectively garbage time, with Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant watching the entirety of the last frame from the bench.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
• Once that is done, everything will still need to be tightened, Rudolph said, but the move will effectively be complete.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• Some Fed officials have hinted that higher yields could effectively do the job of one more rate hike.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Those kind of laws have effectively been outlawed in 9th Circuit states.
  — John Blackstone, CBS News, 2 June 2024
• That’s not to say tanks are a silver bullet; the military will need to use them effectively, Barros adds.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• Those mean the same thing, effectively, a candidate is no longer running.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2024
• Among the unknowns are some nuances of how certain prey species have evolved to more effectively react to threat signals.
  — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
• By raising debt to buy and hold bitcoin, the company was effectively able to deliver leveraged bitcoin price exposure to its shareholders.
  — Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024