How to Use increasingly in a Sentence

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• People are becoming increasingly aware of this problem.
• The situation grew increasingly hopeless.
• Increasingly, scientists are questioning the data.
• The old guy, the one whose beard is increasingly gray, still has it.
  — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• Jewish students turned out in force for the board’s Nov. 1 meeting, telling AS that they’ve been been increasingly targeted in the wake of the war.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• As with space—increasingly a playground for the likes of Bezos, Branson and Musk—the ocean has become the habitat of the ultrawealthy.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
• The four will try to survive an increasingly complex range of challenges.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• Most kids, increasingly young men, don’t go to college.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
• The companies and filmmakers increasingly steer clear of projects that could offend the right wing.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
• Large shares have increasingly failed in more recent months.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2024
• That ground game has increasingly centered on a do-or-die push in Iowa, where a long-shot victory could redeem the effort.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Those who choose to remain in the city are increasingly opting out of having children: Hong Kong’s fertility rate is the lowest in the world.
  — Selina Cheng, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2023
• The nightmare of ending up as an anonymous body piled up in a morgue or chucked into the dirt has increasingly haunted Palestinians in Gaza.
  — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
• The host, Sean Evans, asks the celebrities increasingly personal questions as the spice levels increase.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• As its whiskey became increasingly fashionable across the country, the brand moved most of its production to a distillery up the road in Wanship, which is now open to the public for tours.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2023
• Their meeting and agreement come at a time that the three countries are on an increasingly tense ledge in their relations with China and North Korea.
  — Aamer Madhani and Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Her business life slowed, but working on canvas began to increasingly help with her grief.
  — Robin Keats, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
• Print and broadcast media—and increasingly web content too—speak in many voices and worldviews.
  — Rosemary Salomone, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
• That fate is becoming increasingly likely, said Reis, who has been carving for four decades.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2024
• And as the days ticked by, the legal team grew increasingly worried, both about his health and about the possibility that the delays would lead to a mistrial, forcing them to start all over again in court.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• Started out spare and spatial, the track then bursts into life with a 2-step beat that then again shifts gears into sparkling clean, increasingly galloping techno.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• Hun Sen, 70, has ruled Cambodia for nearly four decades, with an increasingly heavy hand in recent years that has all but wiped out the opposition.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 24 July 2023
• She’d been taught to be afraid of strangers who might want to kidnap her, not adults in positions of authority who increasingly tested her boundaries.
  — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Over the centuries, telescopes have grown and improved enough to spot increasingly faint and faraway celestial objects.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• German Shepherds German shepherds, on the other hand, have been bred in recent decades to have increasingly sloped backs so their shoulders are much higher than their hips.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• On the latest installment of the variety show the foursome must survive an increasingly complex range of challenges.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• In recent weeks, Haley has grown increasingly direct in her criticism of Trump but hasn’t managed to win any contests.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2024
• Homebuyers who can afford to bypass the higher costs of borrowing on a home loan are increasingly doing so.
  — Alex Vega, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2023
• The ships targeted by the Houthis, however, have increasingly had little or no connection to Israel, the U.S. or other nations involved in the war.
  — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• A day spent in her company, from 7 a.m. to midnight, offers a glimpse into an increasingly complex juggling act.
  — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024