How to Use vastly in a Sentence

vastly

adverb
  • The bill now heads to the House, which has a vastly different plan.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The Los Angeles Dodgers bring a vastly new look to the field for the 2023 season.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Besides, hair types vary vastly from straight and fine, to light, wavy, dense, and curly.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The Bruins face the new-age, vastly improved Devils twice next month, Dec. 23 and 28, in Newark.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The vastly superior Celtics are still in the hunt for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
    Afentres, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Barkov got the fourth hat trick of his career with three goals scored in vastly different ways.
    George Richards, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In the lawsuits analyzed by the Herald, the amount of these fines was often vastly greater than the value of the homes themselves.
    Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Likewise Paul Maurice is the vastly more adroit coach in this series, with Kris Knoblauch in his first year in charge.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
  • And in several cases, the margin could have been vastly worse.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Now, the economy is in a vastly different place than when the Fed kicked off its rate hike campaign.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Terrell team taking the field each Friday now is one vastly different than the teams just two or three years ago.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The Beavers are vastly improved in stopping the run, giving up a conference-best 107.1 yards per game.
    oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The last time Weisselberg took the witness stand, the stakes for the company were vastly different.
    Clare Hymes, Ash Kalmar, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • This setup is vastly different from the previous lobby, where the desk was against the far wall.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The squads are broadly made up of the same players, but the requirements are vastly different.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The second goal is to make concrete in a way that doesn’t produce vastly more CO2 pollution.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2023
  • That work of drama vastly exaggerated the heroes and villains of the trial and the town.
    Lisa Grunwald, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And the same goes for workplaces, which can have vastly different cultures.
    Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The ultimate size of the market, however, is vastly greater.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Even though the end result wound up being the same for Barrow, the roster is vastly different compared to a year ago.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Ice deposits could vastly reduce the cost of such missions compared to launching the resources from Earth.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • That income gap means that their goals for a new contract will be vastly different.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • Perine is also the vastly better pass blocker of the two backs and is productive catching the ball out of the backfield.
    Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
  • In the series, the worlds of two vastly different women collide.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The two teams each used a different method to arrive at vastly different ages.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Trump and Biden have had vastly different relations with Ukraine, but Kyiv’s goals have not changed.
    Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Right now, Congress is vastly divided over a plan to fund the government.
    Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In that time, one single trail had given me a tour of vastly different landscapes.
    John Pana, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Monfort vastly overpaid for star power even as other teams knew that Bryant’s star was dimming.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024
  • South Asia is a region of vastly distinct dialects, ethnicities, and traditions.
    Prinita Thevarajah, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024

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