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Mightily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.
  • (adv.) To a great degree; very much.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He had no business getting to that ball ahead of the full-back, who will be mightily relieved.
  • (2) And we have tried mightily to learn from them,” he says.
  • (3) "Just this week I'm assailed mightily for going after Islam and had been for a very long time before that."
  • (4) If Hart was hardly hyperactive either the England goalkeeper must still have been mightily relieved to see Pablo Zabaleta make a superb clearance from Townsend’s cross just as Mitrovic, on as a substitute, seemed likely to apply his forehead to it.
  • (5) I think you will probably be mightily rewarded by our press ,” he said.
  • (6) Howard Archer, UK economist with IHS Global Insight, said: "Retail sales were mightily impressive in April, even allowing for a major boost coming from the later Easter this year.
  • (7) (Tally Hall was mightily relieved when a similarish mistake against NYRB didn't prove decisive).
  • (8) Unsurprisingly, the chancellor was mightily unhappy that the IMF singled out the UK as a country that needed to rethink its approach to tax and public spending.
  • (9) In the email – seen by the Guardian – he calls the protesters "numb-nuts" and the police "daft", saying: "I am mightily pee'd off at the police.
  • (10) As expected the team struggled mightily in their disastrous first game without Paul, despite Crawford doing a decent fill-in job by leading all Clippers scorers with 24 points.
  • (11) Recently, the DOJ has been embarrassed mightily by an acidly damning PBS Frontline special that criticized it – among others – for not finding anyone worthy of prosecution in the morass of casual fraud and wrongdoing that was the credit crisis.
  • (12) Judt often missed Europe, which was after all his subject, but he flourished mightily in America.
  • (13) Being constantly slapped down by his boss could be seen as mightily embarrassing to Hammond.
  • (14) So Egyptian authorities will doubtless be mightily relieved that Tuesday’s hijacking does not have links to Isis-related terror – as one official told the Guardian, not a terrorist, just an idiot.
  • (15) With that sort of career path in mind, little wonder the parliamentary secretary was mightily miffed by Mallah’s TV appearance.
  • (16) In Greece, most of the “rescue” funds in the temporary “assistance” programmes are allocated for payments to existing creditors , while the country is forced into austerity policies that have contributed mightily to a 25% decline in GDP and have left its population worse off.
  • (17) Even so the Gallowgate End were mightily relieved when, with Steven Taylor off the pitch having a facial wound stitched, Jordi Gómez spurned a golden opportunity.
  • (18) In the US, some believers have given up their jobs and donated money they think they will no longer need to pay for more than 2,000 billboards across the country proclaiming "Judgment Day: May 21, 2011 – Cry mightily unto God.
  • (19) Indigenous presence must be confined, erased and then forgotten, so that the United States may continue to live upon and profit mightily from lands taken from indigenous people.
  • (20) I'm told that Miliband's office saw an early draft which had plenty more on those subjects, including statements that had them raising their "eyebrows to the heavens" – and which they were mightily relieved to see did not make the final version.

Mighty


Definition:

  • (n.) Possessing might; having great power or authority.
  • (n.) Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
  • (n.) Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc.
  • (n.) A warrior of great force and courage.
  • (adv.) In a great degree; very.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (2) The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and South Africa agreeing to buy half of the power generated.
  • (3) Chelsea, racism and the Premier League’s role | Letters Read more Mighty Manchester United had just been humbled by lowly Leicester City, battered 5-3.
  • (4) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.
  • (5) Mighty layers of connective tissue with de novo formed blood vessels are disposed among the bundles of the repaired muscular tissue of the uterus and urine bladder wall.
  • (6) Abbott’s few remaining apologists in the domestic media have vaingloriously announced today that our prime minister is putting the mighty US “on notice” about tax evasion.
  • (7) That was the error which would eventually allow George W Bush to occupy once-mighty Baghdad 500 years later.
  • (8) Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate armed services committee, told the Detroit News on Monday that he was not sure air strikes "make sense," saying that "we ought to be mighty damn cautious" before launching them.
  • (9) Mighty Current editor Lee Bo was also reportedly abducted from Hong Kong and later reappeared in March, as did manager Lui Por .
  • (10) But it’s clear there was a mighty panic over who would pay.
  • (11) After showings of familiar and already much-anticipated stuff such as Watch Dogs , Assassin's Creed IV , South Park: the Stick of Truth and Mighty Quest for Epic Loot , we got The Crew , a cross-America racing title with seamless player collaboration and competition and lots of levelling up ( read our preview here ).
  • (12) She makes a cameo in the imagination of Elizabeth, the book's heroine, telling the character that she is not really having an orgasm, but that "you are just imagining it in order to submit yourself to your husband and his mighty penis".
  • (13) Mighty Deer Stalker Tough 10km off-road (and very muddy) run in Peeblesshire, Scotland, which starts at dusk.
  • (14) You emerge on Rajpath, Delhi’s most impressive boulevard, with the mighty arch of India Gate, a 1931 war memorial designed by Edwin Lutyens at its head.
  • (15) Just contrast the fate of the British telecommunications industry and its participants with that of the once-mighty British Leyland.
  • (16) It has exalted the lowly and brought down the mighty from their seats.
  • (17) Meanwhile the Police Federation's attempts to extract retribution for the disputed p-word, in the form of Andrew Mitchell's sacking, have been roundly slagged off by former Labour minister Chris Mullin , who last week described the organisation as "a bully", "a bunch of headbangers" and "a mighty vested interest that has seen off just about all attempts to reform the least reformed part of the public service".
  • (18) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
  • (19) The once-mighty Rio Grande is so dry it is being referred to as the "Rio Sand".
  • (20) The flow of water – used as a coolant to carry away the mighty heat of the reactor core – was raised and lowered.

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