How to Use profound in a Sentence

profound

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• His paintings have had a profound effect on her own work.
• Her books offer profound insights into the true nature of courage.
• His knowledge of history is profound.
• The last two years have had a profound impact on the world.
  — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• But the more profound change may need to come in our own lives.
  — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
• The horror on the faces of the other players was profound.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
• These changes and more will have a profound impact on our lives over the next 10 years.
  — Nir Kaldero, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
• And the impact of mental health in the workplace is profound.
  — Matthew Trowbridge, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2022
• News like that tends to have a profound impact on the other kids.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
• The effects have been profound in dense cities like New York.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 16 May 2020
• Saving the life of a drowning man has a profound impact on the young hero.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• There is such profound love and respect between the two of them.
  — Megan Friedman, House Beautiful, 11 Sep. 2018
• There is something profound about it that stays with you, for a long time.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 25 May 2018
• Small steps toward progress can feel the most profound.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2023
• But the 1918 eclipse had a profound impact on the Bradley County town of Hermitage.
  — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
• As for the season itself, Utah had profound highs and lows.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• The temptation to loll like a lotus-eater on the sands is profound.
  — Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
• This is my 10th birthday without you, and the pain is still profound.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 8 Feb. 2019
• How the virus kills in America, though, has changed in profound ways.
  — Campbell Robertson, Star Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
• But the past few months have been defined by a more profound crisis.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• The loss was so profound, and death had come so suddenly.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• There’s a lot of great people there that had a profound impact on my life.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2022
• Loss of taste and smell can have a profound impact on people’s lives.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
• This season has an even more profound effect on me than the first run did.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
• The song’s power comes in part from the fact that it was born from profound personal tragedy.
  — Robert Marovich, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
• Vice probes the profound, planetary changes in store for us.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2020
• Loepp mentioned the profound impact the past year has had on mental health.
  — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2021
• To Tom and Jennifer, your enduring strength and resilience in the face of such profound loss continue to inspire us all.
  — Jade Thomas, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
• For me, this creates a feeling of profound calmness, which is when many of my best decisions materialize.
  — Brad Jacobs, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024