Example sentences for: categorically

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

  • It pointed out that Japan, not the United States, is India's largest trade partner, that Japan had "categorically counselled" New Delhi about six weeks ago not to proceed with the tests and would now "take measures which correspond" with its outrage.

  • He wrote, "Let me repeat categorically: the OIC [Office of Independent Counsel] does not release grand jury material directly or indirectly, on the record or off the record."

  • "The defence of the right of the refugees to return home is a slogan empty of meaning if one continues to exclude categorically the committal of ground troops," the editorial concluded.

  • In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Bob Dole made a big fuss about Clinton's refusal to categorically rule out pardons for former associates caught up in Whitewater.

  • 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.


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