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How to use chronically in a sentence

17 example sentences · adverb

Chronically means in a chronic manner, or to a chronic degree. Example: “He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.”

Examples of chronically by meaning

adverbExtremely.

  • That, however, will not lessen the embarrassment for England, their departing manager and a set of players who chronically under-performed after Wayne Rooney’s early penalty.2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London

More sentences with chronically

  • He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.From the entry truant
  • He has been chronically depressed and feels he has nothing to live for.From the entry live for
  • Most of us chronically recycle impure, under-oxygenated blood through our bodies day after day, year after year.2005, Constance Grauds, Doug Childers, The Energy Prescription, page 56. From the entry under-oxygenated
  • Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.2001, Neil McCulloch, L[eonard] Alan Winters, Xavier Cirera, Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook, page 149. From the entry transitorily
  • Encumbered scriveners can usually count on having their egos trimmed regularly by eager and chronically underawed spouses.1985, Robert L. Steed, Money, Power, and Sex: A Self-help Guide for All Ages, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry underawed
  • The appendix when brought into view was found chronically inflamed and distended by fæcoliths.1914, Annals of Surgery, page 13. From the entry fæcolith
  • Those chronically stressed animals were then compared with nonstressed peers.2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times. From the entry nonstressed
  • Better to be thought chronically shy than to have landladies with duplicate keys sneaking in at night in their bedwear.2008, Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle. From the entry bedwear
  • For the hypermaterialistic and chronically adolescent Nancy, what was nonnegotiable was control, the power to sculpture her world to gratify her ever-sharpening appetites and desires.2007 December 16, Bob Shacochis, “Here Comes the Bride”, in The New York Times. From the entry nonnegotiable
  • But Bradley, who dropped the gloves on Gore in a combative debate Wednesday night and called the vice president chronically dishonest, ignored Sullivan's advice.2000 January 30, Thomas DeFrank et al., “George W. & Al Bank on Bubba”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 14 Oct 2008. From the entry drop the gloves
  • All too often chronically ill or disabled people are viewed as being nonsexual people by their family, friends, and even many medical professionals.1997, Sexual Function in People with Disability and Chronic Illness, page 50. From the entry nonsexual
  • For example, individual bottles may leak chronically, may contaminate the samples being taken, e.g. chlorofluorocarbons, or may consistently mistrip or otherwise malfunction.1994, Requirements for WOCE Hydrographic Programme Data Reporting, page 38. From the entry mistrip
  • She is a simple, friendly, naïve woman, who is chronically depressed because of her inability to make friends in the ultraimpersonal places in which she and Coverly must live.1987, The Arizona Quarterly, page 241. From the entry ultraimpersonal
  • That was particularly true of ten counties, almost half the provincial total of chronically poor counties, located in two contiguous prefectures, Wenshan and Hungho, in tropical southeastern Yunnan.1983, Nicholas R. Lardy, “Living standards and the distribution of income”, in Agriculture in China's modern economic development…. From the entry nongrain
  • Though their relationship was brief, Haylor was all anyone who was chronically online during the era of One Direction could talk about for the four months these two were dating.2023 July 8, Naydeline Mejia, “Taylor Swift And All Of Her Ex-Boyfriends' Body Language, Explained”, in Women's Health. From the entry Haylor
  • The rhythm of life in rural Asia has followed an unchanging pattern from generation to generation and for the chronically poor it is soaked in the cloth of continued deprivation.2009, John Malcolm Dowling, Chin-Fang Yap, Chronic Poverty in Asia: Causes, Consequences and Policies, →ISBN. From the entry cloth

Meaning of chronically

  1. adverb In a chronic manner, or to a chronic degree.
  2. adverb Extremely.

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Questions about chronically in a sentence

How do you use chronically in a sentence?
Chronically is used as an adverb. For example: “He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.”
What is a short sentence with chronically?
“Those chronically stressed animals were then compared with nonstressed peers.”
What does chronically mean?
Chronically means in a chronic manner, or to a chronic degree.

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