Example sentences for: sorely

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

  • Had it been more complete and better done, the book might have served as a survey text for linguistics, a work that is sorely needed.

  • What was sorely missing from the Journal recap was the aggressive stance that Massachusetts has taken in trying to regulate day trading.

  • Frequency information on the language, of great usefulness to lexicographers and other linguists is sorely lacking: a study by Thorndike and Lorge in the 1930s yielded the Teacher's Wordbook of 30,000 Words , but that had outlived its accuracy and usefulness by the mid 1940s.

  • Well, gee, I guess if that's "truly hip," then suburban New York does come up sorely.

  • That is not for the want of speculative comment by those who offered largely folk etymologies, which readers of VERBATIM will recall so sorely vexed Walter W. Skeat.


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