How to Use wholly in a Sentence

wholly

adverb

• The claim is wholly without merit.
• She is wholly devoted to her children.
• An infant is wholly dependent on its mother.
• The slight tweak in name, along with adding words to the name, suggests a wholly fresh start.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2024
• One man heard in the video seemed wholly unimpressed by the massive snake.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2023
• But the bad guys were once again wholly mortal, as was the case in Season Three.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• Stuffing: Make wholly a day in advance or up to the point of adding the liquid.
  — Becky Krystal, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• For McCurdy, this is her first body of work that feels like is wholly her own.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
• Carol’s journey is about learning that the fate of the world doesn’t rest wholly on her shoulders.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• Starting today, more of what users say on the service may not be wholly their own words.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• The person stressed, while not directly in the room, the studio chiefs remained wholly engaged in the process.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• There was a reason her tribute was last and wholly not least, this senior night.
  — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 18 Mar. 2024
• Just with a wholly different perspective than the first five months of the season.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The power of the novel is in the moment-to-moment work of parenting a wholly dependent child.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2023
• But the president’s message was not wholly embraced in the chamber.
  — Annie Linskey, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
• Our state is no stranger to the boom-and-bust housing cycles — but this is something wholly different.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
• Crates are structures that surround a dog wholly, while pens keep the dog enclosed to a certain area, but may not have a roof or floor as part of the structure.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• But these numbers of four or more wheel vehicles are wholly eclipsed by two- and three-wheelers.
  — The Conversation, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
• A lot of these are joint ventures, these battery facilities, they're not owned by the Big Three wholly.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• But the rift over its origin is the only point of conflict surrounding this wholly lovable dessert.
  — Lauren Joseph, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2023
• Yet his cynicism was aimed wholly at Nashville, shot like a long-range missile from his new base.
  — Nick Murray, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2023
• It isn’t wholly been-there-done-that because there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes footage from her various hotel rooms and tour buses.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
• And by setting the musical in a dive bar, where all of the characters in Folds’ songs come to life and interact, the lyrics feel wholly organic.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Such is the power of Mann’s men (and women): At 80, Mann has made just 12 films in a career spanning five decades, but his legacy is wholly secure.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• Though the two services share the same parent company, Block, the problems may not be wholly related.
  — Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 8 Sep. 2023
• The melodrama that McBride spins is wholly his own, steeped in our country’s complex racial tensions and alliances.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Though up to a half-inch of rain fell at the park in recent days, according to Adams, the precipitation did not wholly extinguish the flames.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• But the paroxysm convulsing the country in its 75th year is wholly internal.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 27 July 2023
• The Clippers shot 60% from the free-throw line, their third-worst performance this season, and wholly uncharacteristic for the league’s sixth-best team from the stripe.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• To reject their venom wholesale, and be wholly, independently who we’re meant to and want to be.
  — Gisele Barreto Fetterman, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024