How to Use totally in a Sentence

totally

adverb

• I am totally upset you can't make it to the celebration.
• That's a totally different issue.
• In the event that the Fighting Irish win the game, the player wouldn’t be totally out of luck.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022
• This is almost a dessert and the next course is totally a dessert.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Dolin alone is totally fine, and gets your 98 percent of the way there.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2024
• And to be fair, my gym teachers, my peers, and I weren’t totally off the mark.
  — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 11 Jan. 2023
• His lungs were just totally ... gummed up, and like a mesh over them.
  — Joel Rose, NPR, 2 May 2024
• That's wild, and should totally change the landscape of the season.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• And that could be totally not in the beauty business and that would be OK with me.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• By the time halftime came, Mater Dei was totally in charge with a 29-15 lead.
  — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2022
• The brunette also opts for a strict, sleek look, which is totally in right now.
  — Melanie Paukner, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2023
• The golf course is totally different to the pro-am yesterday with the rain and the wind.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Who are the two or three players who are totally in sync?
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• It’s not totally clear yet if that was a result of that text.
  — Anna Blaustein, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
• The pom-pom detail is totally adorable — *adds to cart.
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
• Read on for the major deals that are totally worth the discount.
  — Daisy Maldonado, SELF, 12 Aug. 2022
• Dads totally have a thing for using one bar of soap for their hair, face, and body.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 Nov. 2022
• Biden, even if his heart were totally there on the climate, may just not want to go this route.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• So again, totally different than the study that all of this is based on.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• My boyfriend moved in after just a few months and then totally changed.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
• Katie Holmes once again proved that bag ladies are totally stylish.
  — Clara McMahon, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
• All in all, there seems to be a broad consensus that, if Mike Johnson is in fact the adult in the room, the room is totally screwed.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• This can be in the same league or on a totally different sport.
  — cleveland, 9 Oct. 2022
• Add the new pill-and-hole screen design, and the iPhone 14 Pro is a totally different phone.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Aug. 2022
• And just like that, my face is totally clean (no raccoon eyes here!).
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Allure, 24 Oct. 2022
• For younger women who don’t want to do that, totally fine.
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 15 Sep. 2022
• All of this is to say—Stewart is totally killing her fashion game this year.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2024
• He's held roles in television and film Hauer-King isn't totally new to the acting world.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
• The [self-driving] technology is stunningly good, but at the same time totally not fit for purpose.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
• Was it totally spurred by the social media interactions between both casts?
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025