Example sentences for: spectacularly

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

  • It was a question of glory--of his having risen in the world, and having killed his thousands, and having failed spectacularly, and not having flinched.

  • Woolf was born Virginia Stephen in 1882, the freakishly talented, spectacularly cheekboned youngest daughter of Leslie Stephen, a successful but depressive London intellectual, and Julia Duckworth, a stoic beauty who brought to the marriage children of her own.

  • Now it appears that Yardeni was not just wrong, but spectacularly wrong.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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