Examples of sorely in a Sentence
You will be sorely missed.
She provided some sorely needed help.
The house is sorely in need of paint.
He is sorely lacking in social skills.
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These are diseases where new treatments are sorely needed, with current survival rates rarely beyond a limited number of years.
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Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
The fact that the L.A. County fires predominantly spread house-to-house is evidence that building codes were sorely inadequate.
—Charlie Campbell / Melbourne and Canberra, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
The threat to apply tariffs and FTO designations did create leverage to pressure the Mexican government to resurrect its own law enforcement efforts and collaborate more closely with U.S. law enforcement, two shifts that were sorely needed.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
But many argue that fresh thinking is sorely needed.
—Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
The fact that the L.A. County fires predominantly spread house-to-house is evidence that building codes were sorely inadequate.
—Charlie Campbell / Melbourne and Canberra, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
The threat to apply tariffs and FTO designations did create leverage to pressure the Mexican government to resurrect its own law enforcement efforts and collaborate more closely with U.S. law enforcement, two shifts that were sorely needed.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
But many argue that fresh thinking is sorely needed.
—Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Sorely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorely. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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sorely
adverb
sore·ly
ˈsō(ə)r-lē 
ˈsȯ(ə)r-
: in a sore manner
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