Example sentences for: spectacularly

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

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

  • This idea surfaced briefly and spectacularly in 1990, when the Philadelphia Inquirer suggested in an editorial that perhaps some welfare mothers should be "offered an increased benefit" if they would agree to practice effective birth control--specifically, to use the then-new Norplant contraceptive, which prevents pregnancy for five years after being implanted under the skin of the upper arm.

  • The elegance of Edward's court contrasted sharply with Henry's drab and simple style, and the implied promise of a brighter future proved spectacularly true.

  • Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who set off the bomb that nearly killed Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, was one of the most spectacularly odd figures to flash across the world stage.

  • His theoretical prediction, based on his meticulous anatomical observations and his mathematical calculations, was spectacularly confirmed more than half a century later when Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694) saw the capillaries under a microscope.


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