Example Sentences

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"He's up there!" she exclaimed, waving energetically at another crane cabin in the sky.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Publishers energetically reprint the interwar backlist; film producers confidently invest in adaptations and pastiches; and genre authors such as Anthony Horowitz and Ruth Ware combine traditional conventions with contemporary sensibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

"Water autodissociation has been extensively studied in bulk conditions, where it's understood to be energetically uphill and entropically hindered," says Yair Litman, group leader at the Max Planck Institute.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

It says: what if we let women take up space — physically, energetically, calorically — and celebrated them not in spite of that, but because of it?

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025

As President Lincoln had hoped, Garfield energetically supported the armed forces in the Union's efforts to end the Civil War.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow