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US
/ˈfɔɹmədəbɫi/
]
[ UK /fɔːmˈɪdəbli/ ]
[ UK /fɔːmˈɪdəbli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a formidable manner
the constant risk that attends the exchanges of human beings formidably armed
How To Use formidably In A Sentence
- He now has the chance to prove himself in a formidably difficult role.
- The prison building is as scarred and formidably ugly as the men it houses. Times, Sunday Times
- Altogether, they sound like a formidably intellectual bunch.
- The banks were high and formidably steep from the cut of floodwaters that came with the snowmelt each spring, and they were crowned with a thick growth of brush and popple. Mercy Falls
- Although so large, and so formidably equipped, the swordfish often lazes on the surface of the water and can be harpooned.
- Unless it is formidably resourced, not likely in the current climate, what we will have, in reality, is a harassed inspectorship scurrying to keep up, and meeting silence and a closing of police ranks at every turn. Archive 2005-11-01
- Altogether, they sound like a formidably intellectual bunch.
- Half an hour by train from Amsterdam, formidably modern Almere sits on the flat plain of the Flevoland polder – a tract of land enclosed by dykes bordering the waters of the Markermeer. Geert Wilders, the ultra-right firebrand, campaigns to be Holland's prime minister
- Viz inspected each wing in turn, men his enormous, formidably clawed feet, lastly the broad, spatulate tail. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
- I had worried that the dressing would be formidably strong, but the meat had been hung for a lengthy period and was far more gamey than that used by most oriental restaurants.