How to Use fiercely in a Sentence
fiercely
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The stars rekindled their relationship last year and have been fiercely protective of their second chance at love.
— Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 17 July 2022 -
Riverbanks belong to the people, too, and can sometimes be fiercely contested.
— Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024 -
Her fiercely competitive instincts were stoked by the station’s drive to increase its social media reach.
— Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022 -
As a group, gun owners are fiercely protective about their personal information.
— Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024 -
Kelsa's friends are fiercely protective, and of course, there's the budding romance between the two central characters.
— Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 22 July 2022 -
The film arrives at a time when reproduction rights are being fiercely debated in the United States and elsewhere.
— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024 -
Hispanic consumers are fiercely loyal to Modelo and Corona .
— Jeff Marks, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024 -
The daring — or fiercely independent — will find rental cars available through international and local companies at the airport and in some of the island's larger cities and towns.
— Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024 -
Diana loved Mexico, and defended our cuisine and environment fiercely.
— Claudia Alarcón, Forbes, 31 July 2022 -
Both are 0-1 in the Trinity League and will fight fiercely to get to 1-1.
— Michael Huntley, Orange County Register, 7 Oct. 2024 -
The video shows two large bears battling fiercely in a snowy forest.
— Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023 -
Elders here are fiercely loved, cared for, and listened to.
— Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023 -
Charles’s wife, Marcelle (Amy Resnick), is fiercely opposed to a move — at first.
— Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Both the school and Pharus struggle with how the fiercely flamboyant student fits in.
— Lee Williams, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2023 -
The people who love it, though, fiercely advocate for it, and Chu is among them.
— Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024 -
Brero opened Alp in 1989, and fiercely defended his turf.
— David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 -
But don’t expect any of that to dampen the spirits of their fiercely loyal fan base.
— Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023 -
Over the course of the minute-and-a-half trailer, Mirren and Ford fiercely defend their home from Whitfield, who wants to own the whole valley.
— Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2022 -
And, of course, our cities glow fiercely from just a few hundred kilometers above.
— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024 -
Love and support him fiercely through this important stage of his life.
— Amy Dickinson, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024 -
Inside those few minutes, the winds blew quickly and fiercely.
— The Indianapolis Star, 8 Nov. 2022 -
And she's been that fiercely protective of her union to the Groupe Artémis president ever since.
— Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023 -
Raised in Brooklyn, he is widely seen as a hard worker and fiercely loyal to Trump.
— Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022 -
There isn’t a writer in any part of the world who is worshiped as fiercely by his own people as Rabindranath Tagore is by the Bengalis.
— Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023 -
For someone so fiercely protective of the spies in his charge, Lamb seems unperturbed by the younger Cartwright’s death.
— Hayden Mears, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2024 -
The war rages fiercely with heavy casualties on both sides but little movement in the front lines.
— John Bacon, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023 -
The film takes us inside the lives of a group of strong, fiercely loyal, and whip smart friends living in a small Louisiana parish.
— Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 2 May 2024 -
But back then, Weber saw him as fun, charming, and fiercely loyal.
— BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023 -
Harpster is at once fiercely proud of his program and at the same time possessive of the data behind it.
— Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022 -
Even as the 2020 debates were fiercely fought, Biden and Sanders never let the disputes turn personal.
— Seung Min Kim, Fortune, 7 May 2024
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