Example sentences for: spectacularly

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

  • 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.

  • A screwball political satire about a senator (played by Beatty) who loses his senses and begins to babble the truth on the stump, the film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming, particularly coming from its hitherto overcautious auteur--not to mention a major studio owned by right-of-Attila Rupert Murdoch.

  • But if it turns out that viruses do cause the diseases, then Prusiner will have won the prize for the discovery of something spectacularly wrong.

  • Bancroft is so spectacularly abrasive that it's scandalous that she doesn't get the incendiary comeuppance of Dickens' novel--that objective-correlative finale in which the seething, dried-out harridan spontaneously combusts.

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


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