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
• 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
• Dads totally have a thing for using one bar of soap for their hair, face, and body.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• Spoke with my source — totally fake news and taken out of context.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The lights, which are totally flush with the body panels, seem more likely to make production.
  — Alex Kwanten, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The leak is probably due to a faulty seal, though the engineers aren’t totally sure.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 1 June 2024
• Some people get the flu shot and feel totally fine, while others may feel a bit unwell.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Oct. 2022
• Yes, polka dots are totally here to stay, so get ready to pull out the joyful print and fully embrace the dot life.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 10 Jan. 2023
• The person responding to suggestion has the brainwave pattern of a person totally wide awake.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
• Homeowners also must be 65 or older or permanently and totally disabled.
  — Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024