How to Use drastically in a Sentence

drastically

adverb
  • The life of the desk worker has changed drastically in the past few years.
    Ruth Baril, Staff Research Program Lead, Slack, Quartz, 25 July 2024
  • The longer these drugs were on the market, the more drastically their prices rose.
    Megan Farrer, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The perfume sits well on the skin and doesn’t drastically change over time.
    Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The wideness can vary drastically from one comb to the next.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022
  • But his loss to Pereira did not seem to drastically hurt his stock.
    Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • And among those that do show results, the size of the impact varies drastically.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Carter warns that things have drastically taken a turn for the worse.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 2 July 2024
  • So, any changes in the wind direction can drastically change the fetch over the water.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Contact with the outside world in the 1770s changed Hawaii drastically.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Over the past 25 years, the retail landscape has drastically changed.
    Leah Bhabha, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The war in Gaza has drastically reshaped the demographics of the strip.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • That has changed drastically over the past five years; now, only the A’s remain, and they’ll be gone come October.
    Longreads, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But two of her sisters had the same thing that must have so drastically altered their mother.
    Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • But thanks to a major drought last year, water levels at the canal dropped drastically.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The zoo has used the same habitat to house its elephants for 35 years, but research on elephant care has changed drastically over time.
    Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But listen to something at 89 dBA, and that time allowance is drastically reduced to about an hour and a half.
    Jillian Hubertz, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Over the course of a few months, this L'Oreal serum drastically improved our tester's skin's radiance.
    Bianca Lambert, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The entry of those high-profile figures could drastically shape the strokes of the primary race.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • My life was changing drastically overnight and yet there was still no support and there still hasn’t been any support all that time.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But as Paul heads to the Western Front, his perception of war is drastically changed by the bleak reality of life on the war front.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Shera advises the women who follow her to raise the bar drastically and only date men who bring enough to the table.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 2 July 2024
  • Rarely, though, is a player able to change this drastically — and also this quickly.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Preferred styles and sizes differ drastically from one person to the next.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
  • On nights like Thursday, the Wolves force opponents to drastically adjust and make their No. 8 or No. 9 guy beat them.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2024
  • What in her life, and in her inner life, has so drastically narrowed her awareness?
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Decades of work have drastically reduced childhood blood lead levels in the U.S.
    Michael Phillis and Mike Stobbe The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The office also said the number of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza had declined drastically over the past week.
    Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Whoever and whatever, this new line of support has the potential to change your life drastically by the time that the month is over.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In speaking to the men involved, the villagers find that each has a drastically different version of events.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
  • This will ensure the CBD levels in their system don’t fluctuate too drastically.
    Lydia Kariuki, The Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2024

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