Example sentences for: profoundly

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

  • The column, which instead turns out to be about Ronald Reagan being so profoundly solipsistic that he couldn't remember the names of his dogs or children is slugged "My Boy Spot."

  • Praise goes to Georges Du Fresne, the child actor "who seems, in some prodigious way, to understand" his character (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). Dissenting, the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern says the movie is cloying, "cheerful nonsense" and that its creators don't realize that "this kid is profoundly troubled."

  • Yesterday, Clinton thanked his wife (seated nearby), his daughter, and his circle of religious advisers, saying, "I have been profoundly moved, as few people have, by the pure power of grace, unmerited forgiveness through grace."

  • The illness that strikes her down could be viewed as vengeance for a profoundly unnatural existence.

  • The nearest municipality is 90 miles away, and outsiders are profoundly unwelcome.


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