How to Use vastly in a Sentence

vastly

adverb
  • The bill now heads to the House, which has a vastly different plan.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The Los Angeles Dodgers bring a vastly new look to the field for the 2023 season.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The vastly superior Celtics are still in the hunt for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
    Afentres, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In the lawsuits analyzed by the Herald, the amount of these fines was often vastly greater than the value of the homes themselves.
    Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • And in several cases, the margin could have been vastly worse.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Now, the economy is in a vastly different place than when the Fed kicked off its rate hike campaign.
    Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Terrell team taking the field each Friday now is one vastly different than the teams just two or three years ago.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The last time Weisselberg took the witness stand, the stakes for the company were vastly different.
    Clare Hymes, Ash Kalmar, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • This setup is vastly different from the previous lobby, where the desk was against the far wall.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That work of drama vastly exaggerated the heroes and villains of the trial and the town.
    Lisa Grunwald, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The ultimate size of the market, however, is vastly greater.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Even though the end result wound up being the same for Barrow, the roster is vastly different compared to a year ago.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Ice deposits could vastly reduce the cost of such missions compared to launching the resources from Earth.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • That income gap means that their goals for a new contract will be vastly different.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • The two teams each used a different method to arrive at vastly different ages.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Trump and Biden have had vastly different relations with Ukraine, but Kyiv’s goals have not changed.
    Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Right now, Congress is vastly divided over a plan to fund the government.
    Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In that time, one single trail had given me a tour of vastly different landscapes.
    John Pana, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The signal: Musk had vastly overpaid for Twitter, and its earnings outlook looked a lot weaker than in late 2022.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Hernández will arrive in a vastly different state of mind.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The drop in prices for the men's Final Four has been a vastly different trend than what's going on in Dallas for the final two rounds of the women's tournament.
    Josh Criswell, Chron, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Even though many life-saving drugs are vastly unaffordable to people who need them most, drug prices on the whole are only up 0.4% year-over-year.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • What to Consider The rooms have a vastly different style to most Parisian hotels with a lot of wood and a retro 1970s-style aesthetic that feels like it’s been cast in a sepia filter.
    Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But about 100 users of Be My Eyes are getting a preview, because the new system promises to make the company’s software vastly more useful.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Using resources available right on the moon is a vastly more viable solution.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Cal-Maine now looks like more of a victim, with its role in setting egg prices having been vastly exaggerated.
    WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The two head coaches who patrolled the sidelines four years ago are still at the helm, but their teams come into Sunday with vastly different narratives.
    Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But the balance between free speech and following the law is proving vastly more complicated in much of the rest of the world, where speech can be constrained by more restrictive laws.
    Max Hoppenstedt, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The restaurants and bars all over the valley have been vastly expanding along with the cocktail culture, and has gone from a sleepy town that would shut down around 10PM to having lots of fun options for a night out downtown.
    Noël Burgess, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Now, Azimut-Benetti is the world’s largest yacht builder (measured by linear feet of hulls in build), with two world-renown brands, and within those brands, vastly different models.
    Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2023

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