How to Use drastically in a Sentence

drastically

adverb
  • In turn, his iron play took a slight dip, and his putting fell off drastically.
    Brody Miller, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • But his loss to Pereira did not seem to drastically hurt his stock.
    Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The life of the desk worker has changed drastically in the past few years.
    Ruth Baril, Staff Research Program Lead, Slack, Quartz, 25 July 2024
  • Carter warns that things have drastically taken a turn for the worse.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 2 July 2024
  • That means this match can swing things drastically if either is able to pick up a win.
    Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 18 June 2026
  • The perfume sits well on the skin and doesn’t drastically change over time.
    Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This is the kind of drop that drastically changes your options.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The longer these drugs were on the market, the more drastically their prices rose.
    Megan Farrer, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But when booking with points or miles, that can vary drastically.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Second, don’t drastically change what got you there in the first place.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • My goal is that the landscape around this will have drastically changed by the time my kids are teenagers.
    Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • His life had drastically changed in recent years, with a five-year-old and a six-year-old at home.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The city would be forced to lay off workers and cut services drastically.
    Judy Mollica, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Or did that line give you permission to not change it too drastically?
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And among those that do show results, the size of the impact varies drastically.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
  • While her days are still full and busy, her schedule has shifted drastically.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • The knee injury changed things, though not drastically.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • The number of cars in the city has been drastically reduced.
    Lisa Courbebaisse, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Over years of use, this drastically reduces both repair and time cost.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
  • XPrize aims to shrink that drastically.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Dec. 2025
  • The narrative around cannabis has evolved drastically over the past decade.
    Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And as the genre has drastically evolved over the last two decades, its stars are sure it could never be made today.
    Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But two of her sisters had the same thing that must have so drastically altered their mother.
    Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • So, any changes in the wind direction can drastically change the fetch over the water.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But thanks to a major drought last year, water levels at the canal dropped drastically.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
  • What in her life, and in her inner life, has so drastically narrowed her awareness?
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • My body and skin did not change drastically overnight as I had been led to believe would happen.
    Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That may change in the next five years, and maybe that’s when technology will step up drastically.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 19 June 2025
  • When Amisa dies, Szu’s life changes drastically.
    Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Rarely, though, is a player able to change this drastically — and also this quickly.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2024

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