Example sentences for: categorically

How can you use “categorically” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Instead of categorically defending a woman's right to an abortion, they have chosen to challenge pro-lifers on the pro-lifers' turf.

  • In view of the abundance of the worldwide population of the domestic cat it comes as something of a surprise to learn that no authority can categorically state where the name for this group of small, soft-furred carnivorous animals started or when.

  • One professional British lexicographer told me, categorically, that no one uses the - tch - pronunciation in Britain, where it would be regarded as wrong or pedantic.

  • The most common American sense of in the bag is `completed, done, consummated,' and, while it ill behooves one to state categorically that `ruined, botched' is not a viable definition, I have never encountered the expression used in that sense on either side of the Atlantic.

  • The British poet and screenwriter James Lasdun's recent protestation--"I categorically deny being a neo-formalist"--plants the suspicion that his sympathies are, indeed, neoformalist.


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