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How to use increasingly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Increasingly means increasing in amount or intensity. Example: “There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.”

Examples of increasingly by meaning

adverbIncreasing in amount or intensity.

  • Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 15
  • As more and more people moved behind the increasingly larger walls, the fortress settlement evolved into the walled city.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
  • Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC

More sentences with increasingly

  • There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.From the entry iceberg
  • They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.From the entry glacier
  • The larger Sand Hill Cranes increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lesser ones do.From the entry lesser
  • The Prime Minister deflected some increasingly pointed questions by claiming he had an appointment.From the entry deflect
  • As public funding is reduced, we depend increasingly on private philanthropy.From the entry philanthropy
  • Who's going to look out for the little man as insurers increasingly weasel out of paying claims?From the entry little man
  • Ergonomics is increasingly important in office-product design.From the entry ergonomics
  • The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.From the entry stampede
  • In recent years, the prime minister has become increasingly autocratic.From the entry autocratic
  • Seeing a steam engine in action is increasingly rare.From the entry in action
  • Grocery stores increasingly stock a range of nongrocery items.From the entry nongrocery
  • The government is increasingly out of step with public opinion.From the entry out of step
  • She found his questions increasingly bothersome.From the entry bothersome
  • She increasingly turned away from politics.From the entry turn away
  • Cotton was increasingly shipped by rail.From the entry by rail
  • As his aging hands became increasingly arthritic, he would often tell us that he could feel it in his bones when a snowstorm was coming.From the entry in one's bones
  • Mr. Jeffries’s troops have grown increasingly anxious this week about the possibility that Mr. Biden is going to cut an unsatisfactory deal to raise the debt limit.From the entry cut a deal
  • And like everything else that's increasingly scarce, it behooves us to hoard our stash.2025 February 2, Charles Hugh Smith, Begging Bowl '25: I'm Looking for Two Readers Willing to Help Me Buy a New Thrift-Store Shirt. From the entry honesty
  • It's increasingly used in industrial and commercial settings, such as water-treatment plants, hospitals and nursing homes.2025 May 1, Jen Schwartz, “The magic molecule”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 5, pages 54-55. From the entry hypochlorous acid
  • But over the past decade they have increasingly been seen as crucial national bellwethers.2025 April 2, Cameron Joseph, “Democrats’ big election night gives them first hope since Trump’s victory”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry bellwether
  • The increasingly popular practice of using QR codes by cybercriminals is called “quishing” among the cybersecurity community.2025 January 17, Dan Milmo, “Russian hackers target WhatsApp accounts of ministers worldwide”, in The Guardian. From the entry quishing
  • Particularly in the realm of personality disorders, the importance of dimensional models is being increasingly recognized.2024 January, Eamonn Arble, “Antisocial Personality Traits, Substance Use, and Somatization: A Brief Consideration of Their…. From the entry intradiagnostic
  • The past few days of the Harris campaign were an increasingly excruciating riot of celebrity bandwagonning.2024 November 15, Marina Hyde, “To the stars vowing to flee Trump’s America: maybe your excruciating endorsements were part of the…. From the entry bandwagonning
  • This will become increasingly urgent as next year's General Election hoves into view.2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3. From the entry hove
  • Gaylorism in general is Very Online—born on Tumblr, increasingly huge on TikTok.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry Gaylorism
  • Alternatively, a form of nicotine consumption that is becoming increasingly popular around campus is called Zynning.[2023 February 3, Sophia Thomas, “Are SLU Students Dependent on Nicotine?”, in The Hill News, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2023. From the entry Zynning
  • He cares deeply about judicial restraint, another Scalian principle that is increasingly ignored by activist conservatives.2022 March 20, Noah Feldman, “Scalia’s Ghost Is Haunting Conservative Justices”, in Bloomberg. From the entry Scalian
  • Injections of hGH have become increasingly popular as a virtual “rejuvenator” or “fountain of youth.”2021, Albert W. Taylor, Physiology of Exercise and Healthy Aging, page 273. From the entry fountain of youth
  • In the decade ahead, the story must be one of increasingly frictionless travel.2021 May 19, Paul Stephen, “Our railway in RAIL's next 40 years: Jacqueline Starr”, in RAIL, number 931, page 40. From the entry frictionless
  • The increasingly pervasive and aggressive extractivist paradigm is now a global phenomenon.2021, C. Parker Krieg, Reetta Toivanen, editors, Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts, Helsinki University Press…. From the entry extractivist
  • Destination stakeholders have increasingly recognized the importance of the “Instagrammability” of places.2021, Velvet Nelson, An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism, page 303. From the entry Instagrammability
  • For ours is the kingdom of Covid-19 and its aftermath in an increasingly totalitarian world, amen.2021 January 1, “What a spectacular year 2020 has been; we have Covid to thank for it”, in The East African, Nation Media Group. From the entry Generation Zedder
  • Analysts who venture a guess increasingly favor a nonletter shape as their base-case: the checkmark.2020 May 29, Jeanna Smialek, “Forget Swooshes and V’s. The Economy’s Future Is a Question Mark.”, in The New York Times. From the entry checkmark
  • But Martin’s increasingly provocative ideas throw a wrench in Elena’s dreams of a happily-ever-after.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in The A.V. Club…. From the entry happily ever after
  • The increasingly dysfunctional socio-economic conditions exacerbated the increase in extreme healing practices and general religious conmanship.2020, Mookgo S. Kgatle, Allan H. Anderson, The Use and Abuse of the Spirit in Pentecostalism. From the entry conmanship
  • Developing a "webside manner" increasingly is recognized as central to medical education.2020, James O. Woolliscroft, “Communication”, in Implementing Biomedical Innovations into Health, Education, and Practice: Preparing…. From the entry webside manner
  • One factor is the increasingly immersive power of ideological narratives and virtual realities.2020 November 3, Ross Douthat, “2020 Will Not Be Decisive”, in New York Times. From the entry storyscape

Meaning of increasingly

  1. adverb Increasing in amount or intensity.

Full definition of increasingly

Questions about increasingly in a sentence

How do you use increasingly in a sentence?
Increasingly is used as an adverb. For example: “There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.”
What is a short sentence with increasingly?
“Cotton was increasingly shipped by rail.”
What does increasingly mean?
Increasingly means increasing in amount or intensity.

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