How to Use forcefully in a Sentence

forcefully

adverb

• Near the end of the first half, he was sacked and thrown to the ground forcefully.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2022
• But the Black Forest cake speaks forcefully for the past.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• Four of the justices warned that the court should have acted more forcefully to block such laws.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 10 Dec. 2021
• Press back up so forcefully that your body leaves the ground, jumping slightly to the right.
  — Greg Presto, Men's Health, 9 June 2022
• The focus now shifts to how forcefully the Fed should respond.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• Whiplash occurs when the head is forcefully jerked back and forth due to a sudden impact.
  — Thomas J. Henry Personal Injury Law, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Judge Jackson forcefully pushed back against the claims.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• She’s spoken forcefully about the need for La Mesa to be a climate change leader.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• For example, the kick drum and vocals push through the mix a little too forcefully.
  — PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
• Ellis-Brown returned to the Shake Shack and forcefully tried to take his phone back from the driver who was in possession.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2023
• Biden allies have pushed back forcefully on those claims.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
• Shoving his taser in her back, Martin took Jacqueline to the ground and forcefully handcuffed her.
  — Alexa Gervasi, The Week, 5 Apr. 2022
• Gregor was the only striker who had forcefully resisted when the mob tried to take him from his home.
  — Kenneth C. Barnes, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2023
• But that he's made no bones about wanting to speak up for himself fairly forcefully.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
• There were probably other reasons, but these are the ones that have stuck with me most forcefully.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Take short, rapid breaths through your nose and forcefully contract your diaphragm and belly.
  — Mikayla Morell, Health, 22 Dec. 2023
• The four actors register all the more forcefully for having the only speaking roles in the entire movie.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• In fact, Clance and Imes argued forcefully in their original study that success was not a cure.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• At a fraught juncture in the fighting, just how forcefully Ukraine should make its case for more robust and timely help has become a sore point.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• By flexing certain muscles in their feet, hairy frogs forcefully rip their claws through their skin.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• To meet the moment, our society must forcefully recommit to racial justice by taking lessons from the past.
  — Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Judge Jackson pushed back forcefully against some of Mr. Cruz’s questions.
  — WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• Avoid forcefully tapping the vial or syringe, as doing so may damage the peptide.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• Newsom spoke forcefully about the public’s demand to see results from the billions the state spends on homelessness.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• When Finlayson's daughter tried to help her mother, the man grabbed the 9-year-old and forcefully threw her against a nearby dresser, according to Hall.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2023
• The goal for Williams is to improve quality of life for people living in encampments, and to decrease the chance that these sites will be forcefully cleared by the city.
  — Caron Creighton, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2022
• Both films depict war as something old men send young men off to die in, though the new film leans into this idea more forcefully and to more chilling effect.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Still, Chemerinsky does make, forcefully, valid points.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Roth had joined a chorus of business groups pushing forcefully to ban the local labor ordinance.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2024
• Agents would go house to house and raid workplaces in an offensive that would sweep up many people who are not criminals, disrupt businesses and schools, and forcefully separate families.
  — Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024