Example sentences for: wholehearted

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

  • Critics say this film is pretty fun for a formula sports flick: "brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek plays a second-string quarterback thrust into the spotlight of a football-obsessed Texas town when the star is injured.

  • It exemplifies liberals' wholehearted embrace of the gay-rights movement: "[T]he very fact that the vice president could use the phrase 'came out' and assume that his listeners knew exactly what he meant is an indication of how the private language of the homosexual subculture has become the common language of the cultural elite."

  • In contrast, wholehearted agreement with an earlier claim can be signaled by You can say that again!-- though as with You must be joking, this gambit would only be used among people of roughly the same age or status.


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