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potently

[ UK /pˈə‍ʊtəntli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a manner having a powerful influence
    Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind

How To Use potently In A Sentence

  • In the bower with his Welsh wife, Mortimer fumes impotently: ‘This is the deadly spite that angers me - / My wife can speak no English, and I no Welsh.’
  • Greenland hyenas disdainfully sniff me I am not in the desert! the air pauses I hear the grating of poles on their axles the air drones I impotently attend the decivilization of my mind the air brings me the Zambezi Bookslut
  • My review was also a focus of the discussion on the Poli-Sci-Fi Radio podcast this week, to which my rage-filled rebuttal is currently being shouted impotently into the void. SEK Watches ‘Watchmen’ « Gerry Canavan
  • The rest of you can just scream impotently behind the wheel; I get to write impotently and show the younger people what the word "quixotic" means. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Let them bombinate impotently forever, for all I care. Archive 2008-07-01
  • It often reminded me of modern _bassi-rilievi_ and portrait statues, in which gentlemen looking sideways with very modern faces, and both hands full of swords, pens, or books, stand impotently swaddled up in ancient togas or the folds of similar enormous cloaks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
  • Then Lerumie took to the main rigging, leaving Jerry impotently to rage on the deck beneath him. CHAPTER VI
  • Biochemical tests showed that, just like ibuprofen, aspirin, and other nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), the compound potently inhibited two enzymes in the inflammation pathway, called COX-1 and COX-2. (from the summary in Science) The question remains whether low doses of ibuprofin (or similar compounds) actually benefit health. Olive oil is good for you
  • What's different about Gollum is that he's been with the ring for so long that he's, as it were, come out the other side; he's internalised what it represents, so his genuine struggles are much more potently real. MIND MELD: Who are the Most Memorable Characters in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror?
  • It's a pride that comes across most potently in a beautifully staged scene where Stanley listens unseen while his sister-in-law denigrates what she calls his animalistic, subhuman behavior. Fore, right!
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