How to Use totally in a Sentence

totally

adverb

• I am totally upset you can't make it to the celebration.
• That's a totally different issue.
• This is almost a dessert and the next course is totally a dessert.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Dolin alone is totally fine, and gets your 98 percent of the way there.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2024
• And to be fair, my gym teachers, my peers, and I weren’t totally off the mark.
  — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 11 Jan. 2023
• His lungs were just totally ... gummed up, and like a mesh over them.
  — Joel Rose, NPR, 2 May 2024
• And that could be totally not in the beauty business and that would be OK with me.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• By the time halftime came, Mater Dei was totally in charge with a 29-15 lead.
  — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2022
• The brunette also opts for a strict, sleek look, which is totally in right now.
  — Melanie Paukner, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2023
• Who are the two or three players who are totally in sync?
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• The pom-pom detail is totally adorable — *adds to cart.
  — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
• So again, totally different than the study that all of this is based on.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• All in all, there seems to be a broad consensus that, if Mike Johnson is in fact the adult in the room, the room is totally screwed.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• All of this is to say—Stewart is totally killing her fashion game this year.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2024
• He's held roles in television and film Hauer-King isn't totally new to the acting world.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
• Spoke with my source — totally fake news and taken out of context.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The lights, which are totally flush with the body panels, seem more likely to make production.
  — Alex Kwanten, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The leak is probably due to a faulty seal, though the engineers aren’t totally sure.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 1 June 2024
• Yes, polka dots are totally here to stay, so get ready to pull out the joyful print and fully embrace the dot life.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 10 Jan. 2023
• Cindy Crawford just rocked a totally new look on Instagram, and her friends and fans are here for it.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 8 Feb. 2023
• Their lawyers contacted us to say that those claims were totally false and have no basis in fact.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
• Scrape the baked meatballs into the sauce and toss until they’re totally coated.
  — Fox News Staff Fox News, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
• The best part is the questions are totally random and far-ranging, so anyone can play.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 4 June 2024
• And with two of the team’s best players likely skipping any bowl game to prep for the draft, the Tide might look like a totally different team.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 19 Jan. 2023
• What isn't revealed until the season finale is Edgar and John aren't totally on the same page about how the plan should proceed.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 2 Aug. 2023
• Go in on this gift with your other siblings to buy her this pricier, but totally worth it, gift.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 6 Dec. 2022
• That was totally out of the blue, but very validating, very lovely and very rare.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• Biden has not totally abandoned the grander AF1 staircase.
  — Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner, 20 July 2023
• The sick and aging decline, and too often die totally alone.
  — Dawn Huckelbridge, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, the ethos of Brat, on its surface, is a late-night rave, a dark club, and a totally viral color that doesn’t often appear in nature.
  — Rachel Wallace, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024