How To Use Spectacularly In A Sentence
-
Twice last week sportsmen have proved me spectacularly wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Why are the opinions of the exceptionally overopinionated classes so spectacularly important as they must take up valuable space.
The Guardian World News
-
Peter Bowler has spent years resurrecting old and forgotten words that are spectacularly precise in their meaning.
-
The most prominent of these lessons is that bottom-up infrastructure succeeds and sometimes even spectacularly.
-
As for the gameplay, senior producer Jeronimo Barrera took the "brawler" genre -- 2-D fighting games like Double Dragon that had become passe -- and spectacularly reinvented it by incorporating advances from its more recent titles, most notably the ability to give orders to one's fellow gang members.
Why Rockstar Is the Leader of the Pack
-
Spectacularly, he is thrown by his captors over the side of the bridge and caught to dangle on his ropes and chains in mid air.
-
Seeing as we all knew who won it months ago, it was spectacularly unexciting, unenlightening and unentertaining.
Times, Sunday Times
-
At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine.
-
The Waterford keeper advanced from his line to spectacularly parry Holt's thunderous shot from 18 yards before the ball had been hacked to safety.
-
It's easy to bake, being essentially a cake more than a steamed pudding, it comes with a spectacularly simple sauce, it freezes well and it reheats like a dream for seconds and thirds.
-
Geologically young, the Rockies exhibit faulting, glaciation, and volcanism, resulting in rugged, spectacularly scenic terrain.
-
Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory.
-
Who sat anarchically at a dallas real estate for sale, gladdened a authoritarianism, and for the inexhaustibly sphenoid clingfish vespidae to the sum of reinvigorated sphenoid we are spectacularly aesthetic besotted.
Rational Review
-
He succeeds in becoming John Doe, even in the midst of such spectacularly false and manipulated media proceedings.
-
Coupled with a sincere belief in her innate cooking sense, this lack resulted in some spectacularly ghastly meals.
-
The new spectacularly rises from the old like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
-
This is most spectacularly performed in one of the region's many tunnels.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Many scientists say that the cardenolides contained in milkweed are poisonous to most potential predators thus protecting the spectacularly colored monarchs.
The Majestic Monarch Butterfly
-
Presumably this is supposed to caramelise the sugars, but, despite using the size of pan specified, mine just keeps boiling over spectacularly, and after 25 minutes, anxious of overcooking the fruit, I put it in the oven anyway, regardless of any "golden caramel colour".
How to cook perfect tarte tatin
-
Another consequence is a spectacularly violent attitude towards homosexuality.
Think Progress » Daschle Asked To Depoliticize Iraq War Vote, Bush Refused
-
A coastal path climbs spectacularly over a rocky promontory and brings you to L' Estagnol, where you will find a sheltered sandy cove.
-
The Iron Samurai watch, a spectacularly ugly bracelet-style watch made from "Samurai sword carbonized steel folded 1000x over," is available from
Gizmodo
-
But both of us know that he's just said something spectacularly ungenerous about the victims' families.
-
Everyone is all courtesy and etiquette and even the ushers are spectacularly dressed.
-
Green walls are not only spectacularly beautiful, but they also help enliven a space, humidify the air, and process toxins.
Flora Grubb Panels Let You Design Your Own Vertical Garden | Inhabitat
-
‘Some years ago, Mike spectacularly crashed his light aircraft, but fortunately survived,’ emails Paul.
-
Added to the already harsh 3% fee for foreign currency transactions (1% to Visa or Mastercard, and the remaining 2% to BofA) and interest accruing from the first day that an advance is taken and you've got all the fixings for a spectacularly bad deal for obtaining pesos.
Credit Card Use
-
Spectacularly, sweets rolled in all directions, across the floor and underneath the chairs.
-
Yet if management has failed spectacularly, the unions have forfeited any right to public support.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Most of the islands are semi-desert, and the landscape can be spectacularly barren.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Spectacularly set atop a Tennessee mountain, it's a veritable factory of what Tennessee Williams might have referred to -- drawlingly, with a cigarette dangling -- as "gentlemen and women of substance.
Southern Charm
-
The speech was spectacularly offensive and a brilliant success.
Times, Sunday Times
-
3 Iki Piki: This could be the single most spectacularly jaw-dropping feat of astronavigation the universe has ever seen.
Irregular Webcomic!
-
In the end Mel lost out rather spectacularly to the two other, much less known, female singers.
-
Not on the fence part, because the fence is a spectacularly dumb idea but the GDP and wages part.
Matthew Yglesias » Good Fences Make Bad Policy
-
The Confederate navy was spectacularly successful with its commerce raiders, which harassed and destroyed Union ships in global warfare.
-
Only a last-second jink to the left by Danny avoids a spectacularly violent end to their escape.
-
Candelabras and aromatherapy candles are lit in the evening and reflect spectacularly in the large Venetian mirror.
-
In the end this was a case modern information warfare that backfired spectacularly.
Times, Sunday Times
-
WV: "anold"- the golf cookie was anold one they tried to jazz up spectacularly unscuccessfully, I would say...
Father's Day Wrap-Up
-
The process of reconciliation of the high-tech vs. low-tech paradox was spectacularly demonstrated by a New York Times report.
-
We manage a whirlwind tour beneath some spectacularly striated sunset clouds of the older colleges, before changing for grad hall.
-
Ordering pubescents about is a spectacularly unsuccessful way to influence their behaviour.
-
Even the much ballyhooed special effects manage to break down spectacularly in a couple of scenes.
-
What it did do, spectacularly, was showcase how the loudest and best-connected Few can dictate customs to the Many.
-
T1 will see readily identifiable versions of everyday saloon cars visually spectacularly modified with big flared wheel arches, wings and bumpers.
-
That was shown much more spectacularly in the relish he took from inventing and making things – such as the defensive gabion "blast walls" used by armies and in flood management – and the power which selling them gave him to leave the world a better place.
A life lesson from the late, great Jimi Heselden
-
It's easy to bake, being essentially a cake more than a steamed pudding, it comes with a spectacularly simple sauce, it freezes well and it reheats like a dream for seconds and thirds.
-
For that average believer did not doubt that God's grace had been spectacularly displayed in the courage of the martyrs.
-
Yet if management has failed spectacularly, the unions have forfeited any right to public support.
Times, Sunday Times
-
But his desire to prove a point backfired in a grim and unambitious contest which spectacularly failed to live up to its pre-fight hype as a clash between two big punchers.
-
The great crime-busting experiment did not merely fail, it flopped spectacularly.
-
Wild at Heart" is Lynch's punchiest, campiest and most violent movie, featuring Willem Dafoe's spectacularly shot-off head, a severed hand, lots of sex, vomit, dirty talk and a leitmotif of gigantic close-ups of matches igniting.
David Lynch's New Peak
-
Divers come to enter a spectacularly different world.
Times, Sunday Times
-
If this was his way of seeking attention, it has already backfired spectacularly.
The Sun
-
Screw up spectacularly just once and popular opinion will consign you to the cavalcade of history's bigger dills.
-
Perhaps that partially explains why my generation has proved itself so spectacularly useless with money.
Times, Sunday Times
-
He gazed upon the spectacularly beautiful valley.
-
It's a non-trivial exercise and if something goes wrong, it can go spectacularly wrong.
-
If those arrangements spectacularly go awry, they can't expect to hide behind a cloak of deception.
Times, Sunday Times
-
If you know anything at all about the tastes of the tsars - think of the Fabergé eggs and you're there - you will understand already how spectacularly immodest the factory's output was.
-
They came fully road-equipped with mudguards, silencer and, most conveniently - not to mention spectacularly - a tool kit.
-
The Sanctuary itself was spectacularly built and was very aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
-
I was in town to start directing a spectacularly unedifying documentary about a teenage girl who operated a pornographic webcam from her bedroom.
-
Why the cells were able to reproduce so spectacularly has not been solved yet.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The brothers had spectacularly yo-yoing lives, but all the expeditions to far-flung places and fraternal love-hatred have not been harnessed into a shapely book.
-
It is destined to go spectacularly and painfully wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Their feelings festered until, six years later, it blew up spectacularly before the World Cup.
-
The couple skated spectacularly throughout the competition.
-
In the end this was a case modern information warfare that backfired spectacularly.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Here is a spectacularly pretty and weird animal: stalk-eyed flies of the family Diopsidae.
The Panda's Thumb: March 2007 Archives
-
Their attacks on military targets have failed spectacularly.
-
He volleyed the ball spectacularly into the far corner of the net.
-
Perhaps the summer seemed miserable as a result of some spectacularly wet days when the rain was torrential.
Times, Sunday Times
-
When it comes to prophecy, mankind has a spectacularly poor record.
Times, Sunday Times
-
When Cromwell came from Youghal and gazed upon the spectacularly beautiful Suir valley, he is reputed to have declared, ‘Now there's a land worth fighting for’.
-
Not all the manuscripts on show are spectacularly illuminated.
-
The second half continued in the same vein with Evans saving spectacularly from a Connor thunderbolt.
-
The systems failed spectacularly to meet the deadline for the new term, but we'll let that pass.
-
Ellis and Boyce offer that there are also “orchid” children, who will wilt if ignored or maltreated but bloom spectacularly with greenhouse care.
The Science of Success
-
Once the car gets up to speed, it should be fun to watch it the carcake fly off the roof spectacularly and land squarely on the car or cyclist following it.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Cakes and Cheese
-
What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Archive 2009-02-01
-
But one little lie to secure an elusive table backfires spectacularly.
Times, Sunday Times
-
If you are being suspected of a little dodginess yourself, you don't want to spend your time consorting with a person of such a spectacularly dubious reputation.
-
That chance was spectacularly untaken.
Globe and Mail
-
The returning train was derailed by the drunken pachyderms, and by the time the line was cleared and we arrived back in the capital, I was feeling spectacularly rough.
-
We have become, over some twenty years and more, so used to the Tories losing seats at by-elections and failing spectacularly to win eminently winnable seats at others, that the vibes emanating from Ealing Southall suggesting that The Tories 'charismatic candidate Tony Lit, a wealthy Sikh entrepreneur prominent in the area, might do well enough to come a very close second and even, whisper it not in Gath, to win the seat are beginning to waken the media up to a possible earthquake.
Archive 2007-07-08
-
Like earth, Mars is a terrestrial planet quite unlike the spectacularly strange gas giants that lie beyond the ‘Red Planet’ and the Asteroid Belt.
-
He volleyed the ball spectacularly into the far corner of the net.
-
He's always pushing and risking failure: when he fails, he does so spectacularly; when he succeeds, he does so spectacularly.
-
The first shot arced neatly if unspectacularly towards the practice green.
-
The cackhanded way in which it was sprung on the public backfired spectacularly.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Populated by some 68 indigenous ethic minorities, its spectacularly rugged countryside is dotted with their villages of stilted huts.
-
The story is 19th-century Russian ballet at its most spectacularly kitsch but the classicism of Petipa's choreography remains its unsullied, exquisite heart.
This week's new dance
-
It was baptised with the spectacularly unimaginative name of ‘Latest News’, a name that lives on in the site's URLs today.
-
Home of the Bushmen, the arid reaches of the Kalahari has some spectacularly wild and remote game viewing areas.
-
Richly glazed and often spectacularly potted, the sources for these works include Anglo-Saxon cremation urns, Peruvian vases and, on at least one occasion, a Fijian carving.
-
Each achieved or produced something spectacularly new and each was widely influential, often sparking creative collaboration elsewhere.
-
Young and old alike enjoyed taking walks to see the many houses that were spectacularly lit up for Christmas.
-
Lately, a few of those bets have gone spectacularly wrong.
-
Today, though, she's on the school run, so she's in jeans, boots with toes as pointed as her sentences, and an orange sweatshirt that clashes spectacularly with her bee-stung, blood-red lips and pale, powdered skin.
-
In another spectacularly cringe-making moment, a bronzed goddess warns through her pout: ‘This could rip two people apart.’
-
But for once the luck is with him - he volleys the rebound spectacularly into the net.
-
That these qualities could desert him so spectacularly at the club's training ground in the face of one legitimate question is revealing, if not even alarming.
-
The musical culture of Brazil is a spectacularly intricate one, rife with crossovers, subsections and variations.
-
Which goes to show how spectacularly we have all been missing the point.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Another interesting charge is that the loss leading auditors are also spectacularly ineffective.
-
It was a speculative venture that flopped spectacularly, with the company finally going into liquidation in 1913.
-
These ideologies, so fanatically nursed, are best described as spectacularly ass-backwards (to borrow an appalling, phlegmatic phrase).
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play
-
The brooches, which had been very large and spectacularly ornate, gave way in the later ninth century to smaller, monochromatic silver and black pieces.
-
Perhaps that partially explains why my generation has proved itself so spectacularly useless with money.
Times, Sunday Times
-
This stupendous sum has failed spectacularly to improve the lot of its intended beneficiaries.
-
They had been grazing in one of Crete's dozens of fabulous gorges, where sheer cliffs soar spectacularly on either side as you head for the Mediterranean Sea.
-
My locavore efforts yesterday failed spectacularly.
-
He then had a spectacularly-unsuccessful stint as coach of a poor Lakers team in 1994 before his final fling as a player in 1996.
-
You may remember him as the photographer from ‘The Omen’ who gets spectacularly decollated by a pane of glass…
-
The dealers are a mixed bunch, one of whom has clearly been chosen because he is so spectacularly obnoxious.
Times, Sunday Times
-
This is most spectacularly performed in one of the region's many tunnels.
Times, Sunday Times
-
DANIEL GRAYSTONE In his early 40s, a spectacularly wealthy computer engineer / designer, Daniel is married to Amanda and the father of Zoe — but his extensive business interests leave him little time for his child, whom he still sees as a little girl in pink shoes.
Breaking News: CAPRICA Casting for Citizens | the TV addict
-
I am currently flat-hunting, and am therefore regularly being lied to in spectacularly inventive fashion.
My inner estate agent
-
But one little lie to secure an elusive table backfires spectacularly.
Times, Sunday Times
-
I think I would have demurred, though, at invitations to sit with someone who had previously made wide and spectacularly false anti-union claims in the purest of bad faith, blatantly lied about me and my work, and shown himself, frankly, not to be a foeman worthy of my steel.
Archive 2009-06-01
-
Tonight it's given a spectacularly literal-minded and heterosexual interpretation and, for some reason, a cockney accent.
-
But the two men, while mutually respectful, are spectacularly unalike.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Similarly bold plans have misfired elsewhere, most memorably with the U.S. firm Iridium, whose scheme to provide global satellite phone coverage failed spectacularly.
-
None of those players are ever asked to talk to Claire Tomlinson about why they hoofed the ball into their own net spectacularly from 20 yards, or why they failed to hit the net from two yards despite the absence of the goalkeeper.
-
Your driving fast parallel is spectacularly infelicitous, unless you are suggesting that 'mania junior is the most likely to be damaged by a form of' asocial 'behaviour, be it going to a school where teachers wear gowns, playing chicken on the M1 or driving too fast.
Ironic Ducks
-
Sydney had hired a spectacularly gifted electron microscopist, Nichol Thomson, who could cut and collect the thousands of serial section needed to trace the wiring of the nervous system, which was done by John White and Eileen Southgate.
Martin Chalfie - Autobiography
-
The Iron Samurai watch, a spectacularly ugly bracelet-style watch made from "Samurai sword carbonized steel folded 1000x over," is available from Chinavision for a questionable $15.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
-
What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Creative Control - Part 2
-
In his spare time he ran a barber shop and a scandal sheet, and went spectacularly insane on a street parade.
-
This was a clear attempt on the part of the special warfare community to cross-pollinate those who had done spectacularly well into the CIA.
THE SHADOWS OF POWER
-
He examines sculpture, early printed books and wall-paintings in a spectacularly illustrated volume.
-
Divers come to enter a spectacularly different world.
Times, Sunday Times
-
He was a spectacularly successful investment banker and pioneer in investment analysis.
-
Which goes to show how spectacularly we have all been missing the point.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Hoover was certainly, Summers shows, spectacularly indifferent to those straight arrow standards he set for his agents.
-
However, one of the first phone calls backfired spectacularly, according to one anecdote told to PRWeek. '
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
-
What Loefah heard in those first few Kryptic Minds beats is edgy, rolling, stripped back spacious dubstep that was spectacularly well made and also had its own identity -- emotive, organic in places, very junglist in spirit -- unlike the vast number of producers who tried to clone his sound in 2006, and failed.
Pitchfork: Latest News
-
He was spectacularly ugly, with not a redeeming physical feature.
-
Guests have complimentary access to the spa, which is spectacularly lit at night and a great place for some downtime.
The Sun
-
The demons dodged from side to side spectacularly avoiding the bullets as Scarlett knew they would.
-
the area was spectacularly scenic
-
The narcissism of identity politics is spectacularly out of kilter with the enormity of the challenges the country now faces.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The album features a spectacularly banal set of lyrics.
-
This comes with the warning that this plan can backfire spectacularly.
-
He has seen Disney rise spectacularly from the ashes during his 11 years with the company.
-
I've refreshed my memory over the past couple of days and, strewth, how spectacularly untitillating can you get?
Times, Sunday Times
-
Kilos of cocaine were hoovered up by the spectacularly famous and indulgent in the 1970s when, as Bob puts it, ‘lines were offered around like cups of coffee.’
-
He was a spectacularly successful investment banker and pioneer in investment analysis.
-
Electrification of the countryside developed spectacularly: over 80 per cent of all communes were connected by 1930.
-
Divers come to enter a spectacularly different world.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Spectacularly well-timed, I agree, but unfortunately I spilt all my vitriol on another carpet, so I can't reproduce it with the same passion here.
-
These anticoagulants are poison for wildlife, but one of them - warfarin - is a spectacularly great medicine for human beings when meted out in the proper dose.
-
Spectacularly inspired mismanagement by airline executives actually deserves much of the blame for the state of the industry.
-
He admitted that the closing stages of last season represented his lowest ebb, when he felt powerless as a promising campaign unravelled so spectacularly.
Arsenal are 'perfectly good enough' to win title, says Arsène Wenger
-
She's come a long way from being spectacularly awful as Michael Corleone's daughter.
-
He volleyed the ball spectacularly into the far corner of the net.
-
Touching on themes such as love, greed, poverty, joy, embarrassment and rivalry, Sophie's work is also on show on hoardings that adjoin Arlington House, the spectacularly brutal 1960s tower block outside the train station.
Top 10 art attractions in Margate
-
Here the same thing is happening - less spectacularly, more subtly - as in the pictures by popular fantasy artists, who airbrush imaginary landscapes and populate them with monsters and buxom ladies.
-
At Zephyros, in 30m of water, the flukes of a sizeable anchor are visible, the chain running along the base of a cliff which rises spectacularly some 10m off the seabed.
-
The speech was spectacularly offensive and a brilliant success.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Fascinating look at the national results - non drinkers do spectacularly worse than dipsos, and the IQ is in inverse proportion to salary levels.
-
Well it did well, it did spectacularly well, Mark, increasing the number of seats from around 50 to 150, tripling the number of seats.
-
Cycads throve so spectacularly in the Jurassic, comprising perhaps 20 percent of the flora on the face of the earth, that another name for the era is the Age of Cycads.
Birdology
-
He volleyed the ball spectacularly into the far corner of the net.
-
Other terms in the top ten included 'B4N' (bye for now) and the phrase 'Epic Fail', used to describe something that has gone spectacularly wrong.
Web User | News
-
Although there is an oversupply of holiday property in some areas, property prices in the more sought-after Turkish resorts have risen steadily rather than spectacularly.
-
He was yesterday sentenced to prison for his role in the fraud that led the company to collapse so spectacularly.
-
Around 18 months ago the issue blew up spectacularly after more than 40 party members signed a petition demanding that she be deselected.
-
The reasons for the fomentation of militancy have been spectacularly perpetuated by your very own government.
-
This is also, unfortunately, a quintessentially human thing: to expect others to fail spectacularly before your eyes in order to fulfill a kind of voyeuristic pleasure in their incompetence, to laugh at the delusional aspirants of greatness who are too foolish to recognize their own personal shortcomings.
I Dreamed A Dream « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
-
Each achieved or produced something spectacularly new and each was widely influential, often sparking creative collaboration elsewhere.
-
Trace elements are common in chert-forming minerals and these give chert some spectacularly colourful banding, creating the complex patterns found in chert nodule geodes and jewellery stones.
-
She came up with several plans that failed spectacularly and finally decamped for England.
-
Here is a city where we've dreamt brilliantly of virtue while doing spectacularly unvirtuous things.
-
If this was his way of seeking attention, it has already backfired spectacularly.
The Sun
-
Each achieved or produced something spectacularly new and each was widely influential, often sparking creative collaboration elsewhere.
-
Phlomis holds its structure spectacularly well after flowering, turning golden in the autumn and standing throughout the winter.
Times, Sunday Times
-
If they were going to fail, they were going to fail on his terms: spectacularly, brilliantly, with flair and vivacity.
-
Adjoining the Music room gallery is a spectacularly decorated Music Room.
-
Male indigo birds sport beautiful metallic blue plumage, while male whydahs sometimes possess spectacularly long tails.
-
Guests have complimentary access to the spa, which is spectacularly lit at night and a great place for some downtime.
The Sun
-
The banks that must now go cap in hand to taxpayers have been spectacularly mismanaged.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Look at these pieces: like all of his political writing, it's spectacularly well-informed and researched, eloquently and eruditely written, and advocates a unique opinion.
-
In addition, the Leader of the Opposition has twice been spectacularly wrong-footed over the aftermath of the conflict.
-
Sadr and his fellow putschists have been spectacularly unsuccessful in winning popular support.
-
The knights ride Andalusian crosses of sorrel and bay costumed spectacularly in body and headdress.
-
T ethoxyethane of posterior is one oceania, but that it spectacularly spiff for clear rehabilitative euro is a unbordered slugabed in the picariae of comprehensible fount.
Rational Review
-
But it has spectacularly misfired in France, where they simply do not do things that way.
-
His willingness to fail spectacularly always seems to outweigh taking the easy option.
-
Here, spectacularly large groups of scolecite, heulandite, apophyllite, and associated minerals occurred in cavities in flood basalt.
-
The most prominent of these lessons is that bottom-up infrastructure succeeds and sometimes even spectacularly.
-
The new spectacularly rises from the old like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
-
Today more than ever, this last frontier seems spectacularly attractive and remarkably enviable.
-
It is destined to go spectacularly and painfully wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Its spectacularly veined silver leaves eject barbed blooms that can really bite.
-
On the subject of the bombshell quotes from Barack Obama about "bankrupting" the coal industry and making electric rates "skyrocket" - about which I audio excerpt of which Hugh has since posted separately - the San Francisco Chronicle is now furiously trying to cover its collective fanny in a spectacularly unconvincing fashion.
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
-
They had fallen spectacularly short at Euro 2004, eliminated in the first round.
-
The man already has been discredited by the inexcusable mismanagement of his portfolio and by his spectacularly somnolent performance in the house.
