How to Use mightily in a Sentence

mightily

adverb

• They contributed mightily to the cause.
• She struggled mightily to read his handwriting.
• The soldiers fought mightily before finally surrendering.
• That said, Utah still struggled mightily to keep him, and the rest of the guards, out of the paint.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• The Toreros struggled mightily putting the ball in the basket.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
• The French, the Dutch, the British and later the Americans fought mightily over these 20 square miles.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• The complexion of things for the buy-buy-buy Padres would change mightily.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Aztecs have struggled mightily getting the ball into the end zone.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• Alabama struggled mightily in the loss to Texas on both sides of the ball.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Celtics held their own for the first quarter, but struggled mightily in the second.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• Jay tried mightily to beat on, to fight the current, to rewrite his past but in the end could not overcome it.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• Woods was part of a safety unit that struggled mightily against the run last year.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2025
• The Colts have struggled mightily on offense most of the season.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Nov. 2022
• Louisville struggled mightily on the ground in the first half and tallied just 173 total yards.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2021
• But in Game 3, CC Sabathia struggled mightily and failed to get out of the second inning.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 29 May 2020
• With the pass rush struggling mightily, the Cowboys don’t have time to let Lawrence work out those kinks in-season.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
• Challengers from the centre and left have tried mightily, and failed, to unseat him.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
• Jones would be a godsend for a defense that struggled mightily against the run in 2019.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2020
• River Hill’s bats struggled mightily for much of the game.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2023
• The Las Vegas Raiders have struggled mightily during the 2024 season, and now the team has lost two of its stars.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
• Jarvis was a first-round pick in 2020 but struggled mightily in Double-A last year.
  — The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
• The United States would struggle mightily to flatten the country or to take and hold it.
  — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2024
• Over the last four years, the arts and entertainment have suffered mightily as Trump held court in the White House.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Jan. 2021
• Dalbec struggled mightily in the first week of the season.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• Hampton scored 12 points in the fourth quarter in a game that saw Moreau struggle mightily in the first half.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2025
• Two decades ago, the chum runs crashed, but the stocks rebounded mightily in the years afterward.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2021
• Houston tried mightily to blow the game and deliver the Dolphins a big draft gift.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• Lorenzen, the top setup man, struggled mightily out of the gate.
  — John Fay, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2020
• The Bucs, who’ve struggled mightily on the offensive side of the ball in recent weeks, are 2.5-point favorites.
  — Catena Media, al, 13 Nov. 2022
• And the recent onslaught of free-agent additions could just be the start of building up a unit that struggled mightily last season.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2025