Example Sentences

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All of these differences, Yamamoto explained, could determine how contagiously each species of primate urinates.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025

To live so fully, so galactically, so contagiously, with so much daring, candor, zest and, yes, energy that no one is ever going to believe it when you die.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

I still yawn contagiously during social interactions, but seeing the stimuli that I use in the lab no longer produces the effect.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2022

Latta’s contagiously hopeful temperament stems in part from a cancer scare that recalibrated her outlook.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2017

Then as Reid issued from his bath, glowing and alert with vivid energy and contagiously alive, the idea seemed not inconceivable after all.

From The Professor's Mystery by Hastings, Wells