Example Sentences

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In 2016, I met Emily, who is now my wife, after she heckled me, supportively, during a comedy show in the back of a pancake restaurant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

During these moments she finds other girls will supportively offer, "no, it's fine", which she really appreciates on a human level, but "that's not what the joke is for!"

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

It’s a way of sharing the pain and the horror, as well as committing to stand supportively along the path toward healing.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

Outside Staten Island University Hospital last week, as passing cars and fire trucks honked supportively, employees chanted, “I am not a lab rat!”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2021

That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall