How to Use fiercely in a Sentence

fiercely

adverb
  • 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 dog weighs 55 pounds and was outclassed by the cougar but battled fiercely.
    CBS News, 18 May 2022
  • 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
  • If Pinterest wants to make a dent in the fiercely competitive e-commerce space, Bill Ready's the man to lead the charge.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Inside those few minutes, the winds blew quickly and fiercely.
    The Indianapolis Star, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Jaguars, fiercely strong cats native to the Americas, are known as kings of the jungle.
    Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The women of Wakanda step up fiercely, both in the context of the world presented on screen, and as performers in the movie itself.
    David Jamell Moses, Men's Health, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Back in the 1950s, each night the four young sisters rehearse their singing act, managed by their fiercely loving single mom.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The two candidates have fiercely battled to become the sole viable challenger to Trump.
    Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The mother and daughter were cheering fiercely as husband/dad Paul Bettany, 51, leaned forward and smiled at the sight.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Their removal was the result of a campaign to oust them from office by those who fiercely opposed the Democratic lawmakers' support for a personal income tax hike proposed by then-Gov. James Blanchard.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The Brit made several brave attempts to take the lead while Verstappen fiercely defended – actions from both drivers threatened to venture into the ‘reckless’ category.
    Sam Joseph, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024

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