Example sentences for: spectacularly

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

  • He knew we were selling arms to Iran--itself flatly illegal and spectacularly in conflict with the administration's public pronouncements--but, he claimed, he had no idea the deal involved paying ransom for hostages.

  • This 3-hectare (8-acre) complex of tropical lagoons, cascading fountains and sunbathing terraces is cleverly landscaped with lush palms and black-and-white volcanic rocks to fit perfectly into the seafront, where the surf crashes spectacularly against the rocks.

  • Most people are fine with it, but a few (always men) choose to act out in spectacularly inappropriate ways.

  • That prediction failed spectacularly: Tax revenues have boomed with the economy.

  • When genes confine altruism to kin, and deny it to needy non-kin, they are in fact failing spectacularly to be efficiently selfish.


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