How to Use really in a Sentence

really

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• The dog runs really fast.
• I had a really good time at the party.
• The water is really hot.
• She's a really nice person.
• The cars around us honked and weaved — was this really worth it?
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
• Not to split hairs, but the look of the 1950s was really born a few years prior.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2024
• But the Aztecs really should be in a five-way tie for second.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
• This is an epic gift and a really good date night idea, all in one.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
• Those are on sale for $248 which, again, is a really great deal.
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• But is an ‘Alexandria in the cloud’ really an open sesame?
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2023
• The only one that really matters is the last on Dec. 4, of course.
  — Ralph D. Russo, ajc, 30 Oct. 2022
• Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to really take this dessert to the next level.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2023
• But at the end of the day, there was a lot more plays than that last play that really dictated the outcome of the game.
  — Mike Harley, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• The Bengals were in field goal range but unable to really move the ball.
  — The Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2022
• The Falcons don’t really throw it, and now Kyle Pitts is out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• There really isn’t a better way to start a new year than with a good hike.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• So just to address that part of it, that feels really hard.
  — Jack Irvin, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• So, for me, that has a really special place in my heart.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
• Reich guided the Colts to the playoffs twice and this isn't really about him.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
• Game really was over this time, with the Utes emerging 2-0.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• The Pac-12’s parting shot was a bunch of really good ones on a golf course in Carlsbad.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2024
• Even some really nice stuff, the sort that lights a fire in you to push through that which is less than ideal.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
• When food is really caked on, Byun puts a small amount of water in the pan and brings it to a simmer.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2024
• Javier and Vincent and the team at Mucho Mas really know how to do that.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Apr. 2024
• But that first exchange was so brief—really just long enough to agree to speak again.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• But there, if there’s a rule in place, it is really followed.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
• But the second half was really where Lopez Sénéchal shined.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2023
• In terms of the support from the girls, that’s really full circle, to be quite honest.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2024
• It’s designed really well in a way that lifts the coffee filter, giving some breathing room between the device and the filter.
  — Andrew Watman, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
• To really level up your observing, a telescope will offer a good view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the enormous storm swirling south of its equator.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024