How to Use fiercely in a Sentence
fiercely
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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
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The dog weighs 55 pounds and was outclassed by the cougar but battled fiercely.
—CBS News, 18 May 2022
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The video shows two large bears battling fiercely in a snowy forest.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
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In a post on X, the rapper fiercely criticized Rocky, and called for him to be jailed.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 31 Jan. 2025
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Elders here are fiercely loved, cared for, and listened to.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
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None of these albums sound alike; all sound fiercely alive.
—Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
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Charles’s wife, Marcelle (Amy Resnick), is fiercely opposed to a move — at first.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
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Both the school and Pharus struggle with how the fiercely flamboyant student fits in.
—Lee Williams, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2023
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The people who love it, though, fiercely advocate for it, and Chu is among them.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
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This doesn't sit well with Rand, who's still fiercely protective of his friend.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
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Brero opened Alp in 1989, and fiercely defended his turf.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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But don’t expect any of that to dampen the spirits of their fiercely loyal fan base.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
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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
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And, of course, our cities glow fiercely from just a few hundred kilometers above.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
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Love and support him fiercely through this important stage of his life.
—Amy Dickinson, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
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The program went into effect on Jan. 5, and Hochul fiercely pushed back against efforts to end it.
—David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
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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
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Inside those few minutes, the winds blew quickly and fiercely.
—The Indianapolis Star, 8 Nov. 2022
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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
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And she's been that fiercely protective of her union to the Groupe Artémis president ever since.
—Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
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Raised in Brooklyn, he is widely seen as a hard worker and fiercely loyal to Trump.
—Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
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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
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But brands target coupons in mailings and websites to reach the shoppers who are fiercely loyal to them.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
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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
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The war rages fiercely with heavy casualties on both sides but little movement in the front lines.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
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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
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But back then, Weber saw him as fun, charming, and fiercely loyal.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
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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
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Jane’s fiercely unforgiving tone was adopted by militant Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy.
—Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Benefit managers have fiercely fought efforts to scrutinize their business practices.
—Rebecca Robbins, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
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