How to Use explicitly in a Sentence

explicitly

adverb

• But the rest of the year was explicitly designed to be a counterpoint to that for the Hewson clan.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
• Think of it like Black Friday, but explicitly on Amazon and over the course of two days.
  — Summer Cartwright, StyleCaster, 25 June 2024
• In fact, the system looks a lot like the kind of thing Dios explicitly disapproves of.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by CNN, does not explicitly call for a breakup of Apple.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• The new deal marks the first agreement between G7 nations to explicitly mention a phase-out of coal.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• There are other people who have things to say more explicitly about the topics at hand.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
• Aside from a single tube sock and a few wads of gum mushed between pine cone buds, there didn’t appear to be many items that were explicitly waste.
  — Verity Sturm, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• This sneaker is designed explicitly as a work shoe — for all types of work requiring you to spend a lot of time on your feet.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
• But not every song on the album was explicitly about Theron.
  — Andy Gorel, SPIN, 12 May 2023
• He’s largely shed the pieces of his job that didn’t excite him — namely, those that weren’t explicitly about making shows.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
• The trustees fell short of explicitly calling for Magill to resign.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2023
• When the data needs to be processed, access can be explicitly granted for that purpose to allow the secure movement of the data from the store to a TEE.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• The family and the clerk raised excellent points, points that rest on premises that are so compelling that nobody felt a need to state them explicitly.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 June 2024
• On iPhones, Apple explicitly bans downloads outside of the app store.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• While Bloys did not explicitly state which cast members would return for season 3, at least two absences are set in stone.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 June 2024
• Remember the specs may or may not explicitly mention Wi-Fi 4, 5, or 6.
  — Joseph Moran, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The union’s contract with the studios explicitly allows tiling.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
• None of the other central characters in the book, however, are explicitly people of color — which may come as a surprise to fans of the show.
  — Emily Hilton, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020
• While not explicitly a water toy, this bubble bucket is convenient for toting to the beach or playing with by the pool.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 13 June 2023
• The characters on this show are explicitly Jewish in a way TV can sometimes be reluctant to talk about.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2022
• What Andreessen chose to retweet spoke even more explicitly in this direction.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
• By the time of the Chartists, a mass movement of the working class, an explicitly political agenda had evolved alongside struggles over pay.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
• Foster’s Danvers more explicitly doesn’t suffer fools, but Reis’ Navarro is just as strong-willed in her way.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
• Taylor signed the letter despite the fact that the state has no laws explicitly banning pharmacies from carrying the drugs.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• Here are the Democrats who have explicitly called for Biden’s withdrawal or replacement.
  — Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 10 July 2024
• But who says Santa can only appear in a movie that's explicitly Christmas-themed?
  — Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
• In the film, the cruise ship workers are Filipino, but their ethnicity is not explicitly mentioned.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
• There’s a thousand things about characters that will never get mentioned explicitly in a movie or TV series, but are still true.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 31 July 2024
• Musk has explicitly endorsed Trump and appeared at rallies alongside the former president.
  — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
• Musk has tweeted about deporting criminals, but does not appear to have explicitly expressed an opinion on Trump’s calls for mass deportations.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024