How to Use entirely in a Sentence
entirely
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The view from Path of The Gods makes the three-hour hike entirely worth it.
— Sara Magro, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2024 -
The last time the first prize medal was entirely made from gold was in 1912.
— Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2024 -
But this is entirely up to the discretion of the agents.
— Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023 -
The scariest part of it is that the premise is entirely true.
— Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2024 -
There was a small spot where the paint had come off entirely.
— Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Was that a body double or was that entirely you in the scene?
— Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023 -
The lid does get quite hot, but the body stayed fairly cool, and the handles were entirely cool to the touch.
— Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2023 -
Still, the Gap Band’s funk and R&B sound helped give rise to an entirely new genre of music: hip-hop.
— Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024 -
That is entirely due to the fact that this person had had years of access to people from all around the world.
— Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2023 -
It would be dropped entirely if Trump were to win on appeal.
— Alison Durkee, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024 -
The news comes after a report that the show’s third season has been scrapped entirely.
— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024 -
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, 2023 didn’t play out that way.
— Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023 -
In fact, the sender — the Progressive Turnout Project — was entirely new to me when the message arrived April 15.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024 -
Police said the cord was so tight that the boy was restricted entirely and had red marks on his arms.
— The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023 -
Just a few decades ago, this landscape was entirely frozen.
— CBS News, 15 May 2024 -
The project will be one of the few Western productions to be shot entirely in Pakistan.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 July 2024 -
If your hunch was on point, Graye says, the dish should be entirely remade, not just heated up in the oven or microwave.
— Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024 -
In a matter of weeks, the Kings fell from the No. 5 seed in the Western Conference to missing the playoffs entirely.
— Michael McGough, Sacramento Bee, 20 Apr. 2024 -
Side bangs' comeback isn't entirely new, since the style has made a handful of appearances over the past few years.
— Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2023 -
Most items in that shed were left alone, while the other storage unit and snack shack went untouched entirely.
— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023 -
As the kidney stone makes its way into the bladder, the pain may almost entirely cease.
— Jay N. Yepuri, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024 -
The increase was entirely made up of people living on the street, as opposed to those in shelters.
— Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023 -
The game isn’t entirely polished — there’s at least one bug shown in the video where a brick overlapped a stack and got stuck when rotated.
— Umar Shakir, The Verge, 24 May 2024 -
The bouquets and centerpieces are made entirely of greenery (chic!) and the placemats are made of burlap (clever!).
— Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 1 July 2024 -
What went wrong after that is not entirely clear, but funding came through only for the NBR plant.
— Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023 -
The bone wasn’t entirely the same, the veterinarians said in the case report.
— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024 -
The trucks, parked between the 20-yard lines, brought an entirely new concept to tailgating.
— Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023 -
The findings of the White House study weren’t entirely one-sided, however.
— John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023 -
The cell was composed entirely of Black people, strangers from out of state who did not know each other but were usually forced to share rooms, according to Muldrow.
— Jake Lahut, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024 -
Most notably, the proprietary eGPU port of the original has been removed entirely.
— Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 2 Nov. 2024
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