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How to use potentially in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Potentially means in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way. Example: “The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.”

Examples of potentially by meaning

adverbIn a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.

  • Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist

More sentences with potentially

  • The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.From the entry lithium
  • The Earth-Mars cyclers could potentially be used for transporting people between the two planets.From the entry cycler
  • The seatback should always be up while driving so that the occupant doesn't submarine and potentially suffer severe internal injury.From the entry submarine
  • All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled.From the entry asbestos
  • Microbaroms are a significant noise source that can potentially interfere with the detection of infrasound from nuclear explosions.From the entry microbarom
  • The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.From the entry exclusive
  • But assessments ordered after Grenfell revealed that high-rises north of the border were potentially unsafe.2026 March 17, Angus Cochrane, “Almost a decade after Grenfell, my flat still isn't safe”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 18…. From the entry Grenfell
  • Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day.2025 May 15, “Europe’s free-speech problem”, in The Economist. From the entry collar
  • If we deposed the princesses, his family members could potentially poke holes in his alibi.2025 October 20, Caroline Davies, quoting Virginia Giuffre, “Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre…. From the entry depose
  • I would point to three factors that potentially make Groyperism stronger.2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd, archived from the original on 26…. From the entry groyperism
  • The recall said that no injuries related to the potentially unsterile facility have been reported.2024 February 28, Ramishah Maruf, “Popular eye ointments may not be sterile, recall warns”, in CNN. From the entry recall
  • Beijing is undoubtedly eyeing this vast territory, which potentially contains incalculable mineral wealth.2023 April 12, John Bolton, “A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Peking
  • These sequelae have been further identified as factors potentially associated with EOC risk.2023 December 11, Elizaveta Skarga, Heljä-Marja Surcel, Rudolf Kaaks, Tim Waterboer, Renée T Fortner, “Sexually Transmitted Infections and…. From the entry STI
  • Sarin is a clear and odourless substance that is classed as a potentially lethal nerve agent.2022 April 18, Paul Withers, “Putin chemical weapon horror: Ukrainian mayor says 'remains' of sarin found after retreat”, in Daily Express. From the entry sarin
  • Using a delineator is an effective way to safely redirect traffic away from potentially harmful situations.2022, BARC Civil Engineering (CE) Exam Prep Book, page 121. From the entry delineator
  • Therefore, clinging to this illusion is not only pointless but potentially harmful.2022 August 6, Heather Hutchinson, “I'm Just a Rhetorical Dirtbag, Baby.”, in MacEwan University Student EJournal, volume 6, number 1, →DOI. From the entry dirtbag left
  • It is another way of effing the ineffable, one with potentially serious practical effects.2018, Wesley J. Wildman, Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language, page 83. From the entry eff
  • He thinks the scientific enterprise needs better norms around potentially dangerous information.2018 October 4, Ed Yong, “A Controversial Virus Study Reveals a Critical Flaw in How Science Is Done”, in The Atlantic. From the entry information hazard
  • Unicode calls such sequences of one base character and potentially several combining characters as a grapheme cluster.[2017, Moritz Lenz, Perl 6 Fundamentals: A Primer with Examples, Projects, and Case Studies, Apress, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry grapheme cluster
  • The combination of mobile robots and picking arms is potentially revolutionary.2017 September 12, Steve Banker, “A Wholesaler Uses Mobile, Picking Robots In Its Warehouse”, in Forbes, United States. From the entry piece picking
  • Given a large enough periodic pipeline, for each cycle, potentially thousands of workers immediately start work.2016, Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems…. From the entry thundering herd
  • Thus, one finds individuals dead of a gunshot wound with potentially lethal levels of drugs.2015, Vincent J. M. DiMaio, Gunshot Wounds. From the entry of
  • The bivariable analysis was conducted for all mother and child characteristics potentially associated with NVP RAM.2015 July 11, “Development of Nevirapine Resistance in Children Exposed to the Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV-1 Transmission Programme…. From the entry bivariable
  • The monoanion and dianion states are both potentially relevant at biological pH.2015 December 12, “A pH Sensitive High-Throughput Assay for miRNA Binding of a Peptide-Aminoglycoside (PA) Library”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry monoanion
  • If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891. From the entry come
  • You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw.2014, Leda Meredith, Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles, →ISBN. From the entry hopniss
  • The Gem was peppered with balls of wool and potentially stabby knitting needles.2010, Zoe Whittall, Holding Still for as Long as Possible, House of Anansi Press Inc, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry stabby
  • It is potentially a super-plant, with immune-stimulating, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumour and anti-microbial properties.2010, Patrick Holford, Liz Efiong, Say No To Cancer. From the entry superplant
  • A “bail-in” process for bank resolution is a potentially powerful “third option” that confronts this problem head-on.2010 January 28, “From bail-out to bail-in”, in The Economist, →ISSN. From the entry bail-in
  • A compound in women's armpit extract could potentially open the door to sniffable contraceptives.2009 January 14, Tristram D. Wyatt, “Fifty years of pheromones”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7227, →DOI. From the entry sniffable
  • Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.2008, Body & Soul. From the entry lasagna
  • Consider the heartache that could be avoided by thinking twice about the potentially disastrous effects of cyberflirting.2008, Jan Silvious, Smart Girls Think Twice. From the entry cyberflirting
  • Cain deserves some credit for having gotten a potentially interesting new series off the ground.2007 September 3, Janet Maslin, “His Girl Friday Meets a Sadistically Chic Serial Killer”, in New York Times. From the entry copycat
  • In this way every woman was a potentially fetishizable object and delinquent citizen.2007, Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture, page 137. From the entry fetishizable
  • Trying to gzip them not only wastes CPU resources, it can also potentially increase file sizes.2007, Steve Souders, High performance web sites: essential knowledge for frontend engineers, page 30. From the entry gzip
  • Potentially, “awayness” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.2006, Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald, Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education. From the entry awayness
  • This means the providers of the funds are basically swapping good, solid cash for potentially toxic debt.2005 February 15, Anthony Hilton, “Debt Game's Winners and Losers”, in Evening Standard. From the entry toxic debt
  • It might seem a bit geeky, potentially anoraky and sort of lame.2004, Rowan Coleman, River Deep, page 34. From the entry anoraky
  • Oil and gas production is potentially one of the most important growth industries in Barents Russia.2004, Bjørn Brunstad, Big Oil Playground, Russian Bear Preserve Or European Periphery?, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry Barents

Meaning of potentially

  1. adverb In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.
  2. adverb Powerfully, strongly.

Full definition of potentially

Questions about potentially in a sentence

How do you use potentially in a sentence?
Potentially is used as an adverb. For example: “The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.”
What is a short sentence with potentially?
“All types of asbestos are potentially carcinogenic when inhaled.”
What does potentially mean?
Potentially means in a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: potentially (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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