How to Use handily in a Sentence

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• He won the card game handily.
• Brady and the Bucs won handily; the final score was 31–9.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
• Biden handily won the state in the 2020 election, and Democrats are hoping to keep the state blue.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
• The Vikings won handily in their first meeting, but that was with Kirk Cousins.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The good news is, yes, a top seed has overcome that deficit and won the series (handily in all three games, even).
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
• In the first game between the teams, Ben Davis scored the most points any team has scored against the Trojans this year and still lost handily, 45-21.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Nov. 2021
• Kaine has handily won his last two elections for the seat.
  — Karri Peifer, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
• The election had been called a neck-and-neck race, but in the end Wilders handily beat all opponents.
  — Mike Corder and Raf Casert The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2023
• The Fever handily won the game because of a dominant run through the second half.
  — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2023
• This silky overnight mask single-handily changed the texture of my skin.
  — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Dec. 2022
• There’s a solid play on the total here though as both teams can score handily.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• The stew handily stands as a metaphor for the blending of heritages and cooking styles at work in Dunsmoor’s kitchen.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• Measures that aren’t assured to pass handily are rarely brought to a vote.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
• Youngkin leads McAuliffe handily among white voters, 56%-38%, the poll found.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
• Barbara handily in a piece of the action to Barbara Howard.
  — Essence, 5 Jan. 2023
• Liberty handily took the first set in the final, 25-13.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2023
• The good news is the Eagles won, handily beating the Packers with a 22-10 final score.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
• And in terms of the visuals, the show handily delivers on that score.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
• The tool comes with a soothing gel and fits handily into a home skincare regime.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
• In a race at Parkside, Seidel, a sophomore at the time, won handily.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2021
• No question Hudson — who starred as the Queen of Soul in this year’s biopic Respect — could’ve handily brought the house down on her own.
  — Adam Gold, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2021
• Riddle called out Seth Rollins, leading to a brawl between the two that Rollins won handily.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 30 July 2022
• At the same time, Fortinet’s share price has handily outperformed the broader market and most of its peers.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
• Holmes easily took home the Cincinnati Hills League swimmer of the year for a Braves team that won the league title handily.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2022
• That would resolve the concerns of Democrats swiftly and handily.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• Democrats hope, instead, to make the election a choice between Biden and Trump — a rerun of the 2020 contest that Biden won handily.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• Even so, investors must have liked the show – the stock is in the green today, handily outperforming the more than 1% loss for the Nasdaq as a whole.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
• Now, the village of 4,761 in a red county Mr. Vance handily won has been under the national glare.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• The group won the chancellorship handily in 2017, after turning toward the right on many issues.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• Gore handily won the popular vote, as Lichtman had predicted.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025