How to Use minutely in a Sentence

minutely

adverb

• The minutely choreographed plan was in full swing by Friday.
  — Stu Woo and Trefor Moss, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
• Over the years, Össur has been able to tailor blades to athletes more and more minutely.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2021
• The ripples spread out across the universe, causing space to be minutely squeezed and stretched as the wave passes by.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2017
• His plan, in fact, was to write a colossal and minutely detailed work that was meant to report all the fruits of his decades of research.
  — Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
• Henry James could, in a light mood, have told it as minutely as Lubitsch has in pictures: but at what a length.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2020
• She had never been looked at so minutely or with such interest.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2020
• Firms can minutely slice and dice data on platforms like Facebook to target a select group of users.
  — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 14 June 2023
• Because the stones were of minutely different sizes, each stone had to be measured and each gold prong carved exactly to accept the stone.
  — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• And each of them changes the odds of developing diabetes minutely.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
• The seismic waves from a nearby earthquake will deform the cable minutely, leaving the returning light slightly out of phase with the light emitted by the laser.
  — The Economist, 16 June 2018
• Her mouth is pursed, minutely—maybe consternation, maybe the beginnings of a slow, ironic smile.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 May 2017
• One is of a male torso, minutely detailed with curls of belly and inner-thigh fuzz, sporting a pair of brightly colored Hawaiian briefs.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• Some of the most minutely controlling, harmful, and well-publicized uses have been in warehouse work and call centers.
  — WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
• In a universe where the best basketball prospects are minutely dissected from their freshman years of high school, the collective whiff among the cognoscenti is stunning.
  — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• And yet one of the finest novelists in history chose to devote 500 pages of dense, minutely-observed and stunningly crafted prose to her inner life.
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Quebec is Canada’s familiar-strange double, a return of the repressed, so like the rest of the country and yet so minutely, eerily different.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
• Erskine and Konkle starred in every episode, wrote the majority of the scripts, and were minutely involved in post-production.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
• These segments have to be minutely controlled to meld them into a single optical surface.
  — Chris Holt, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
• At just under 900 pages, the book is most thoroughly a sprawling apologia for Roth’s treatment of women, on and off the page, and a minutely detailed account of his victimization at the hands of his two wives.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• Organizers have been minutely preparing the event for years.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
• The two-millimeter-by-two-millimeter flexible sensor can bond to a tooth’s minutely bumpy surface.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
• But they could be observed minutely, and their responses to deprivation could be recorded.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2021
• Weather varies, moods swing, sinuses clog; the steak sliced from this end of the loin is minutely more tender than the steak sliced from that end; table companions are a distraction, an enhancement, or a nightmare.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2019
• Having spent more than a decade burying bodies for Trump—as minutely detailed in Disloyal—Cohen shouldn’t have been that surprised to find his former boss not playing fair.
  — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Democratic senators will minutely parse his answers to make the case that Trump obstructed justice.
  — Chris Strohm, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
• The death toll is minutely lower than the record 1,002 tallied on Saturday, but shows the country continuing to struggle with the virus as vaccination rates remain low.
  — Jim Heintz, ajc, 18 Oct. 2021
• See’s wholly minutely-researched, but fictional, story is an evocative tale of two best friends whose bonds are both strengthened and tested over decades by forces beyond their control.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
• In this compact, minutely observed novel, the fate of a house in Florida—in which the three adult children of a recently deceased woman were raised—becomes the subject of delicate debate.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Even so, Zauhar seems very in control of the material, ensuring that the sense of artlessness feels minutely crafted and curated.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2023
• His Hall of Fame voting percentage continues to rise (albeit minutely on the most recent ballot) as a batch of younger writers, who care more about statistics than how they were obtained, have joined the electorate.
  — Henry Schulman, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024