Example sentences for: emphatically

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

  • A straightforward Good day', with little stress on good , is the neutral greeting; Good' day', with equal stress and even a slight pause between the words, uttered emphatically, is tantamount to dismissal; the Australian G'dye is again the neutral expression on meeting or parting.

  • It compares the Webzine Salon to legendary San Francisco columnist Herb Caen: The Web can't replicate the "emphatically local" sense of place that made Caen so popular.

  • David Nokes has made a bold, provocative, and sometimes messy attempt to write Austen's life as if it were a novel whose outcome we didn't already know--"a biography written forwards," he emphatically declares in the introduction, which unfolds "as it was experienced at the time, not with the knowingness of hindsight."

  • This was soon joined, and ultimately replaced by surfer [1913], and the earliest quotation for surfer , being part of an account of “a surfer's companion,” a dainty article intended to hold bathing suit and wet towel in a water-proof case, suggests that there was a potential market amongst the fraternity (a writer in 1919 saying emphatically that “Surf-Bathing is dangerous for women”).

  • Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 177 (1803) ("It is emphatically the province and the duty of the judicial department to say what the law is").


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