How to Use fiercely in a Sentence

fiercely

adverb
  • The video shows two large bears battling fiercely in a snowy forest.
    Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Elders here are fiercely loved, cared for, and listened to.
    Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Charles’s wife, Marcelle (Amy Resnick), is fiercely opposed to a move — at first.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Both the school and Pharus struggle with how the fiercely flamboyant student fits in.
    Lee Williams, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Brero opened Alp in 1989, and fiercely defended his turf.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Love and support him fiercely through this important stage of his life.
    Amy Dickinson, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And she's been that fiercely protective of her union to the Groupe Artémis president ever since.
    Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • There isn’t a writer in any part of the world who is worshiped as fiercely by his own people as Rabindranath Tagore is by the Bengalis.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The war rages fiercely with heavy casualties on both sides but little movement in the front lines.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But back then, Weber saw him as fun, charming, and fiercely loyal.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • The two candidates have fiercely battled to become the sole viable challenger to Trump.
    Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The mother and daughter were cheering fiercely as husband/dad Paul Bettany, 51, leaned forward and smiled at the sight.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, Roberts has fiercely defended the court's independence and the justices have ignored such requests in the past.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In the back of the plane, a fiercely competitive game of poker was becoming heated.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
  • And getting to work with somebody as fiercely talented as Rannells, who is like a brother to me.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Ashley Judd plays a fiercely protective aunt in Lazareth.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Both have been fiercely critical of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The stark room where the lower-level employees work fiercely contrasts with the area where the executives are at play.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 22 July 2023
  • Johnson’s ascension to the speaker’s chair cements a fiercely pro-Trump, hard-line faction as the face of the national GOP.
    Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • His father, Liu Ling, was a member of the Communist Party and fiercely loyal.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 July 2023
  • Thank you to the teachers who have guided me through the years, and especially the women in the industry that have fiercely supported me.
    Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The ancient art has also become a fiercely competitive sport in parts of Asia.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
  • However fiercely Egyptians and Jews and Greeks and others fought, their books rested together on the shelves in peace.
    Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • But never in the history of U.S. politics has one party advocated so fiercely to take so much from the young and give to the old.
    Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • One of the most prominent themes in the novel is women fiercely supporting each other.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Armed with years of research, Mr. Brodeur could be fiercely opinionated on the page and while speaking in public forums.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The protagonist, a fiercely independent girl who wins an archery tournament, spurred Liko to give the sport a try.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But in Somalia, the practice has proved fiercely resistant to efforts at change.
    Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Rhodes said the brothers were fiercely protective of the other actors during the show’s production.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The directive is at the final stages of its long march through the EU institutions, where the issue of employment status has been fiercely fought over.
    Ben Wray, WIRED, 20 July 2023

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