How to Use powerfully in a Sentence

powerfully

adverb

• The woman was chesty, the man powerfully built, the curves of his thighs yearning for the curves of hers.
  — Dave Eggers, Wired, 30 Sep. 2021
• And there’s no name more powerfully suited to the task than that of Ford.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2018
• In 1973, that film’s honest moral quandary felt powerfully new to the movies.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2019
• Views of Earth from space have, in the past, powerfully shifted the way humans see the planet.
  — Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
• But the Red Sox responded powerfully in the top of the next inning.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• Chelsea boots are a wardrobe staple and the perfect way to march powerfully into the new year.
  — Kristen Philipkoski, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
• Shoot for the Stars joins a song from 2019’s Meet the Woo in taking on a powerfully elegiac meaning.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
• Talk to me about getting those words to come out so slickly and powerfully.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 1 Dec. 2024
• In the world of fashion, few names bring legacy to mind as powerfully as Ralph Lauren.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
• The facts beat so powerfully upon the memory that the images come back in rather the same way as a film in slow motion.
  — Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
• In life, there is the illusion of horror, which the photo hints at quite powerfully, and the very fact of horror.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 6 June 2019
• This hit me most powerfully while stuck in one last parade.
  — Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• In a Lakers world where the front office is always right, the blame rolls swift and powerfully and very much downhill.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• President Biden said it very frankly and very powerfully from Brownsville, Texas, just a few days ago.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
• These words resonate even more powerfully in the presence of the last witnesses of world war.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2019
• With a powerfully raw script and a gritty aesthetic, the film captured two men at the end of their grubby ropes.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Press powerfully off the floor to raise yourself back to the starting position.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
• His ropey dresses that hug the collarbones and stretch across the hips are some powerfully erotic stuff.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Sep. 2022
• Johnson, who is six feet three and powerfully built, is at ease with himself in a way that puts others at ease.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• Choice of narrative point of view powerfully shapes the substance of a novel.
  — Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
• The home ownership gap isn’t anything new — what’s new is the chance to powerfully address it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
• Crowley’s powerfully simple set of plain screens stands deep down the huge thrust stage, with the audience wrapped around three sides.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 8 Dec. 2021
• What drew Hearn so powerfully to these stories about the return of the departed?
  — Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• As in the 1890s, getting rich is powerfully in fashion.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• Plus, Young and Crazy Horse are at the top of their game, with Young strutting the stage and powerfully delivering the album from start to finish.
  — Scott Bauer, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• Anything that doesn’t powerfully support one of these points should be left out.
  — Justin Kan, Quartz at Work, 10 July 2019
• Gender was almost as powerfully in play for women in the West.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2021
• At 70, Eddie Jacks looked like a character straight out of Coleridge: six feet tall and powerfully built, with a square jaw and a face lined and chapped by sun and salt.
  — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• These can often convey emotions more powerfully than words alone and help the story stick in the audience’s memory.
  — Leslie Poston, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
• While many have powerfully argued that no one should be subjected to the broken and brutal deportation system, that is not the approach the City Council took.
  — Peter L. Markowitz, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025