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How to use vigorously in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Vigorously means with intense energy, force or vigor. Example: “The lawyer vigorously defended her client.”

Examples of vigorously by meaning

adverbWith intense energy, force or vigor.

  • The lawyer vigorously defended her client.
  • He knocked vigorously on the door.
  • The tender roared along vibrating vigorously; braking had resulted in "flats" on most of its tyres.1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706

More sentences with vigorously

  • Robert yanked Connie's leg vigorously, causing her to flounder and eventually fall.From the entry flounder
  • Don't pat yourself on the back so vigorously; you might hurt yourself.From the entry pat on the back
  • "We now have information to blow them out of the water!" the lead attorney asserts vigorously.2011, G. George, Another Job, page 166. From the entry blow out of the water
  • Hours before his climb down, the premier's own cabinet ministers had vigorously defended the curriculum.2010 April 24, “Editorial: Dalton McGuinty schooled on sex ed”, in Toronto Sun, Canada, retrieved 30 Jun 2011. From the entry climb down
  • She took off her sunnies and polished them, a little vigorously.2005, Dave Franklin, Manic Streets of Perth, published 2011, unnumbered page. From the entry sunnies
  • Stir vigorously and scrape all of the brown bits from the pot bottom.1996, Beverly Mills, Alicia Ross, Desperation Dinners!, page 6. From the entry brown bits
  • The woman was vigorously scrubbing her teeth with a piece of chewing sponge.1988, Christine Botchway, Spears Down, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry chewing sponge
  • Then he grasped it vigorously with both hands in an overwhelming flood of relief.1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry disengage
  • Middle and primary schools in Lunghsi County, Fukien, have vigorously popularized part-time work and part-time study activities.[1975 October 7 [1975 September 4], “Fukien County Schools Combine Study, Work Activity”, in Translations on People's Republic of China…. From the entry Longxi
  • In a world of unscrupulous sterility, skerricks of life down there were scuttling around vigorously.1969, Clive Barry, Fly Jamskoni, London: Faber and Faber […], →ISBN, page 54. From the entry skerrick
  • In the meantime the Terrestrian and Venerian governments were already preparing vigorously for further inroads.1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 500. From the entry terrestrian
  • Where've you gone to?" "Coo—ee!" came in reply from the distance, and presently Rona appeared beckoning vigorously.1915, Angela Brazil, For the Sake of the School, reprint, published 2018, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry rona
  • In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.2011, Perry & Wharton, Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival, page 113. From the entry nictate
  • Whenever Brown shows up, wearing his African kufi and confronting issues, I find myself nodding vigorously, for old-time’s sake.2008 March 2, George Vecsey, “The Primary Season Is Embracing Sports Images”, in New York Times. From the entry kufi
  • I would expect this alt-right to be a lot more vigorously opposed to the civil rights movement than OTL's.2003 March 31, Andrew Reeves, “Re: VDI: William F. Buckley Jr.”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet), retrieved 16 Nov 2016, message-ID…. From the entry alt-right
  • Male antechini copulate so vigorously that they die from exhaustion.1990, Eric Hoffman, “Victoria’s Alpine Region”, in Adventuring in Australia (The Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides), San Francisco…. From the entry antechinus
  • Again Mary rescued him from his vaporous mood, and the two of them vigorously plunged into the new work.1979, Ernest Samuels, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur, page 228. From the entry vaporous
  • A retired British civil servant and an Oxford graduate at that, vigorously advocates that Singaporeans should speak Singapore English.1972, Evelyn Ng, The Straits Times, page 5. From the entry Singapore English
  • Since liberation, however, agricultural, animal husbandry, and industrial production both north and south of Chiayukuan have progressed vigorously.1972 March 3 [1972 February 24], “A Good Spring Around Chiayukuan”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 44…. From the entry Chiayukuan
  • They live vigorously, feast Gargantuanly, roister lustily, sing mightily, spin tall tales around their crackling fires at night.1946 May, Don Eddy, “Ride, Rancheros, Ride!”, in Holiday, volume 1, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN…. From the entry gargantuanly
  • English studies are now vigorously pursued in our universities, and the childhood of Anglistic scholarship now lies definitely in the past.1930, Kemp Malone, “The Terminology of Anglistics.”, in The English Journal, volume 19, number 8, →JSTOR, page 639. From the entry Anglistic
  • Here it encountered afresh felled trees like endless bundles of jackstraws, thrown vigorously, crossed under water at every imaginable angle.1912, Mary Johnston, chapter 5, in Cease Firing. From the entry jackstraw
  • Boris Johnson and senior Conservative ministers have vigorously condemned the violence in Washington, but have largely steered clear of condemning Trump for fomenting it.2021 January 7, Peter Walker, “Tories urged to suspend politicians who likened US violence to anti-Brexit protests”, in The Guardian. From the entry foment
  • In the following years, Lord Cromer fought vigorously against pan-Islamist propaganda, banning, for instance, the popular Paris-published pan-Islamic journal al'Urwa alWuthqa (The Firmest Bond).2014, David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires, →ISBN. From the entry Pan-Islamic
  • Cameron, however, shook his head vigorously.2008 November 1, William Pepper, “December 26”, in In the St. Nick of Time, [United States]: Carnival of Glee Creations, →ISBN, page 326. From the entry lawyerly
  • Dealership INSISTS that the wheel is straight when I get the truck back, and once accused me of "full stopping" the wheel vigorously.2000 August 22, Roger Ditmeier, “T100 Crooked Steering Wheel”, in alt.autos.toyota.trucks (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Dec…. From the entry full stop
  • Customers quickly sensed the change when CA took over a company: The new owners vigorously enforced license agreements, often in the courts.1996 November 11, Amy Cortese, “Computer Associates: Sexy? No. Profitable? You Bet”, in BusinessWeek, archived from the original on 09 Jun…. From the entry cottage industry
  • Drop the maccheroni into the water and boil vigorously, stirring often, 12 to 15 minutes or until tender but still pleasingly firm to the bite.1992, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry maccheroni
  • The Yung-li ruler, finding Chao-ch’ing insecure, fled to Wu-chou (梧州), Kuangsi province, and then to Kuei-lin, vigorously pursued by the Manchu army.1982, Albert Chan, “After the Fall of Peking”, in The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 371. From the entry insecure
  • Next the obliging Norwegians sent up a couple of propaganda blimps for the United Nations – an award to the vigorously pro-Communist U.N.I.C.E.F.1973, American Opinion, page 38, column 2. From the entry U.N.I.C.E.F.
  • If the thatch isn't very thick, you can dethatch a cool-season lawn by hand; rake vigorously with an ordinary metal grass rake or a special de-thatching rake.2013, Pat Welsh, Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide, →ISBN. From the entry de-thatching rake
  • I defended myself vigorously on that complaint as well; also mentioning that Julie Ann Wilks had always disliked me and had been conducting “a witch hunt” against me.2012, Hugh Maguire, My First 40 Jobs: A Memoir, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 308. From the entry witch-hunt
  • From the mid-seventeenth century, therefore, disputes about Jansenism turned into a struggle for the soul of the French Church, now vigorously resurgent against a steadily more beleaguered Reformed Protestantism.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 798. From the entry Jansenism
  • Mitch had stood up first, he had spoken out loudly, directly, vigorously and angrily, he had put his own reputation, and his very considerable personal fortune, on the line.2004, Kate Burns, Fighters against Censorship (History Makers), San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry adhocrat
  • These restyled McLuhanites vigorously argue that big government should stay off the backs of resourceful entrepreneurs who are the only people cool and courageous enough to take risks.1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original…. From the entry McLuhanite
  • Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to.1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry oasis
  • Rosemary, brown bosom, flaming dress, flashing ring, high-heeled vigorously over Crabbe's large drawing-room as the sun set setting out nuts and pretzels, perking up nodding flowers.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 482. From the entry high-heel

Meaning of vigorously

  1. adverb With intense energy, force or vigor.

Full definition of vigorously

Questions about vigorously in a sentence

How do you use vigorously in a sentence?
Vigorously is used as an adverb. For example: “The lawyer vigorously defended her client.”
What is a short sentence with vigorously?
“Cameron, however, shook his head vigorously.”
What does vigorously mean?
Vigorously means with intense energy, force or vigor.

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