Example sentences for: categorically

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

  • He categorically denied all charges against him and complained about Britain's treatment of him.

  • The Guardian of London fronted a report Monday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has "categorically ruled" that the 2,500-year-old sculptures from the frieze of the Parthenon in Athens--known in Britain as the "Elgin Marbles"--should not be returned to Greece.

  • 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.

  • Many of Lind's specific points are reasonable, but it's the one place where he has a categorically dismissive rather than explanatory tone.

  • 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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