How to Use increasingly in a Sentence

increasingly

adverb
  • People are becoming increasingly aware of this problem.
  • The situation grew increasingly hopeless.
  • Increasingly, scientists are questioning the data.
  • The old guy, the one whose beard is increasingly gray, still has it.
    Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • It’s become increasingly clear that the LIV golfers have won and won big.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • When the sides go to a hearing, which is increasingly the case, the player must attend and listen to the team present its case why he should be paid less.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Jewish students turned out in force for the board’s Nov. 1 meeting, telling AS that they’ve been been increasingly targeted in the wake of the war.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But with a pivotal election at stake, crime rates are increasingly in the eye of the beholder.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • In the automotive startup space and the EV space — and increasingly, those are one and the same — Tesla has been the exception, not the rule.
    Patrick George, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2023
  • As with space—increasingly a playground for the likes of Bezos, Branson and Musk—the ocean has become the habitat of the ultrawealthy.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • Still, the tech is increasingly being adopted, even in the writing process.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
  • But increasingly, these woo-woo offerings are for the wee ones, too.
    Leila Najafi, Robb Report, 9 May 2023
  • The four will try to survive an increasingly complex range of challenges.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Bacharach and David got increasingly positive notices for their work as the Camelot years wore on.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Most kids, increasingly young men, don’t go to college.
    The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The companies and filmmakers increasingly steer clear of projects that could offend the right wing.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The road to spending that money, though, is increasingly hitting speed bumps from the likes of Gerry Coffman.
    Jennifer Hiller, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
  • Large shares have increasingly failed in more recent months.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Those who had arrived from Germany felt increasingly anxious, and we kids did pick up on it.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Businesses are open, concerts and sporting events are packed, and masks are increasingly a relic of the past.
    Luke Moneystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The killings at The Covenant School in Nashville were the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.
    Johnathan Mattise, Travis Loller, and Holly Meyer, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2023
  • That ground game has increasingly centered on a do-or-die push in Iowa, where a long-shot victory could redeem the effort.
    Kellen Browning, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The massacre at The Covenant School in Nashville was the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.
    Jonathan Matisse and Travis Loller, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • David wrote back to say these missives had become a rare bright spot in each increasingly difficult day.
    New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Ready for a bunch of increasingly depressing links to support this?
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • Those types of projects have often been picked up by French sales agents, but Nordic sales companies are now also increasingly on the lookout for them.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Those who choose to remain in the city are increasingly opting out of having children: Hong Kong’s fertility rate is the lowest in the world.
    Selina Cheng, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The nightmare of ending up as an anonymous body piled up in a morgue or chucked into the dirt has increasingly haunted Palestinians in Gaza.
    TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The use of nitrogen has raised concerns among human rights groups as states have looked for viable alternatives to lethal injection, a method that has become increasingly difficult because of a shortage of the necessary drugs.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Although the crypto landscape is becoming increasingly competitive with the introduction of new projects, BNB Chain has managed to make headlines for its reliability and efficiency.
    Jon Stojan, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024

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