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UK
/pˈaʊəfəli/
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[ US /ˈpaʊɝfɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpaʊɝfɫi/ ]
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in a powerful manner
the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist -
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 powerfully In A Sentence
- It is this which so powerfully arouses sentiment in us.
- This shows that _for every tone an air column of a certain size most powerfully reinforces that tone_. Resonance in Singing and Speaking
- Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, has been accompanied by results of a most interesting and impressive nature, and has created new conditions, not in the routes of commerce only, but in political geography, which powerfully affect our relations toward and necessarily increase our interests in any transisthmian route which may be opened and employed for the ends of peace and traffic, or, in other contingencies, for uses inimical to both. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
- Act Three ends powerfully, with the village in flames, good Soviet citizens hanging by their necks, and keening women, including one who is given a ‘mad scene’ of sorts.
- The right to attach is a simple concept, and it has worked powerfully in other markets. Boing Boing
- No less powerfully mythopoetic than the classical image of the disease, the demonological model envisioned the hysterical anesthesias, mutisms, and convulsions as stigmati diaboli or marks of the devil.
- She argued powerfully for reform.
- All three sections begin powerfully and carry that puissance - and often it's not a force that we nor the narrator can control - throughout the section.
- But as the study just cited indicates, environmental influences can powerfully affect the way genetic predispositions are expressed in human behavior.
- For a few minutes my whole being vibrates with a song so powerfully joyful I forget the years and stand as easy as a young man does at the start of the journey, careless of the distance to be covered or the load to be carried.