Example Sentences

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In the modern game, which has become overrun by monstrously tall super-athletes who can swish 3-pointers as easily as they throw down dunks, every franchise is searching far and wide for the next big thing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 16, 2025

Formerly, if one behaved monstrously, one was judged accordingly.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

“The sentence is monstrously harsh,” the doctor’s lawyer, Oskar Cherdzhiyev, told me.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024

The idea of an “all-female, gender-fluid, disability forward” staging of “Richard III” — as New York Classical Theater describes its new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the monstrously degenerate Plantagenet king — tantalizes.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023

Her pop-eyed face was purple, and her monstrously swollen tongue was hanging from her mouth.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende