How to Use adverb in a Sentence

adverb

noun

• In “arrived early,” “runs slowly,” “stayed home,” and “works hard” the words “early,” “slowly,” “home,” and “hard” are adverbs.
• The jobs are, Mr. Christensen writes, expressed in verbs and nouns, not adjectives and adverbs.
  — Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2016
• The next morning, Archie makes quick work of moving hay bales shirtlessly (Is that an adverb?
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 6 Dec. 2018
• Adjectives and adverbs were as precious to her as cashmere and silk.
  — The Economist, 6 July 2019
• With all those adverbs, expressing the mess can also be a mouthful.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 9 Feb. 2018
• Real people don’t think of things in quite so many adverbs, or adjectives.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2014
• One piece of advice commonly given to writers is to avoid adverbs.
  — Nitsuh Abebe, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
• There are no pauses, few adverbs, and, most notably, few interjections by Faye.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 15 June 2018
• Insecurity, lack of experience, and more can spark a need to embellish the facts and cause candidates to qualify their words with adverbs to 'amp' things up.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• Leonard’s ear for dialogue and laconic style, along with a droll sense of humor and just enough field research, combined to make his crime novels endlessly entertaining (apologies for the adverb).
  — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2018
• But Turtle Bay still offers Midtown convenience at a relatively affordable price (heavy stress on the adverb).
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states.
  — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• Fraudulent stories tend to differ in subtle ways, including their heavy use of adverbs and adjectives as well as slang, simple sentence structures, and relatively few commas and quotations.
  — David Cox /, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2018
• Also inseparable from their prefixes, which endowed them with meaning, were adjectives and adverbs.
  — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• His critics fear that the style, improvised and inflammatory, might create substantive havoc, particularly in the realm of foreign policy, where the smallest gradations of adjective or adverb can affect real lives.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2017
• What if every college football school trademarked an appropriate conjunction, preposition, adverb, pronoun or interjection of three letters or shorter?
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Articles and prepositions indicate analytical thinking and predict higher grades; pronouns and adverbs indicate narrative thinking and predict lower grades.
  — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2017
• In “arrived early,” “runs slowly,” “stayed home,” and “works hard” the words “early,” “slowly,” “home,” and “hard” are adverbs.
• The jobs are, Mr. Christensen writes, expressed in verbs and nouns, not adjectives and adverbs.
  — Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2016
• The next morning, Archie makes quick work of moving hay bales shirtlessly (Is that an adverb?
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 6 Dec. 2018
• Adjectives and adverbs were as precious to her as cashmere and silk.
  — The Economist, 6 July 2019
• With all those adverbs, expressing the mess can also be a mouthful.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 9 Feb. 2018
• Real people don’t think of things in quite so many adverbs, or adjectives.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2014
• One piece of advice commonly given to writers is to avoid adverbs.
  — Nitsuh Abebe, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
• There are no pauses, few adverbs, and, most notably, few interjections by Faye.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 15 June 2018
• Insecurity, lack of experience, and more can spark a need to embellish the facts and cause candidates to qualify their words with adverbs to 'amp' things up.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• Leonard’s ear for dialogue and laconic style, along with a droll sense of humor and just enough field research, combined to make his crime novels endlessly entertaining (apologies for the adverb).
  — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2018
• But Turtle Bay still offers Midtown convenience at a relatively affordable price (heavy stress on the adverb).
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states.
  — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• Fraudulent stories tend to differ in subtle ways, including their heavy use of adverbs and adjectives as well as slang, simple sentence structures, and relatively few commas and quotations.
  — David Cox /, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024