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Example sentences for "potently"

Lexicographically close words:
potentially; potentials; potentiam; potentiated; potentiometer; poter; poterant; poterat; potere; poteris
  1. Spinrobin, starting from his chair, seizing with his imagination potently stirred, this possibility of developing character and rousing the forces of the soul.

  2. Terror was nowhere in his sensations; but wonder, beauty and delight ran calling to one another from one wave to the next, as this tide of sound moved potently in the depths of his awakening higher consciousness.

  3. But how came he to receive the military authority which was so potently to influence the course of events?

  4. That Fishery was not then, as it is now, an easy war to wage, made from a distance, and with a potently murderous machine.

  5. Their action potently helps to create these analogies, and to form what we may call the fraternity of the shores.

  6. The sea, seen from this distance, is even more potently seductive than when one is on its very shore.

  7. Various members of one household were potently insane; others were as potently idiotic.

  8. Of these gifted beings marvelous anecdotes are related, which are most potently believed by their fellow savages, and sometimes almost credited by the white hunters.

  9. But these are vain regrets and it avails not to indulge them, though it is permissible to say that the desertion of Parnell brought its own swift retribution to the people for whom he had laboured so potently and well.

  10. It expels wind, helps belchings, and potently provokes the menses: used in baths, it helps pains in the sides, gripings and gnawings in the belly.

  11. Land Scorpions cure their own stingings by the same means; the ashes of them (being burnt) potently provokes urine, and breaks the stone.

  12. It potently cures wounds, old malignant ulcers, and is very drying.

  13. Sorrel seeds, potently resist poison, help fluxes, and such stomachs as loath their meat.

  14. They potently provoke urine, and break the stone.

  15. These three compound substances work potently together; and therein consists the true process for the transmutation of metals.

  16. The four Elements and three Principles reside in all the Compounds, Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral; but more potently in some than in others.

  17. I believe strong motives and influences are to be at work in it perhaps furtively only: but none the less potently and far reachingly.

  18. From my own experience I begin to doubt most potently of the authenticity of many of Homer's stories.

  19. There were the Van Kortlandts, posted at a distance, like the Locrian archers of yore, and plying it most potently with the long-bow, for which they were so justly renowned.

  20. Their spirits, free of that other world in sleep, were alert and potently discharging.

  21. But the tirades of Burke were powerless against the man who had so potently strengthened the foundations of the British empire in India.

  22. Had he been able to devote all his talent and energy to the domestic affairs of the Holy Roman Empire, he might have contributed potently to the establishment of a compact German state.

  23. Ah, haply in so great agony His panting soul had ended Despairing, but that potently A hand, from heaven extended, Into a clearer atmosphere In mercy lifted him.

  24. With this tragedy," says an Italian biographer of Niccolini, "the poet potently touched all chords of the human heart, from the most impassioned love to the most implacable hate.

  25. And this means that everywhere and always, but most specially and centrally and potently in man's spirit, there is Progress, in spite of checks and hindrances which come from within it, a constant if chequered advance in true worth or value.

  26. A second constructive factor very potently at work during this age was the humanitarian spirit, which had become a powerful factor in British life during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  27. While the Western nations are crowding hungrily in, while the Partition of China is commingled with the clamor for the Spheres of Influence and the Open Door, other forces are none the less potently at work.

  28. That is to say, that which maintains the integrity of the present industrial society more potently than the courts, police, and military is the surplus labor army.

  29. It is a gigantic object lesson, and it preaches his political economy far more potently than he can preach it.

  30. There were other friends and classmates, one of them a natural humorist of the liveliest sort, who would have been quarantined in any Puritan port, his laugh was so potently contagious.

  31. He feared it now more potently than ever.

  32. The attack on Algy, however, had acted potently upon them.

  33. They rule more potently than ever, far more potently than when Solomon in all his glory reigned in Jerusalem.

  34. There be words spoken sometimes that have the effect and impress of a passage of time, so potently do they dissever us from the past, leading us into a sudden knowledge which by time only is generally acquired, and that painfully.

  35. Why then do you afterwards bring me in as a magistrate, when you have so potently addressed my prejudice as a man?

  36. The peaceful outcome of the great Revolution in America was, moreover, potently favored by the lack as yet of deep class distinctions, and consequently of rooted class hatred.

  37. This we write, that the posterity to come may understand how potently God wrought in preserving and delivering those that had but a small knowledge of His truth, and for the love of the same hazarded all.

  38. As God did potently work through His true minister, and in His troubled Kirk, so did not the Devil cease to inflame the malice of the Queen, and of the Papists with her.

  39. But God wrought so potently with the Captain, the Lord Erskine, that neither did the Queen prevail by flattery, nor the French by treason.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    effectively; energetically; forcefully; mightily; powerfully