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Example sentences for "profoundly"

Lexicographically close words:
profonde; profonds; profound; profounder; profoundest; profoundness; profre; profs; profunda; profundities
  1. This could not at all events render our position worse; and it was, meanwhile, agreed that the matter should be kept as far as possible profoundly secret.

  2. I bowed again still more profoundly to this compliment, and modestly admitted that I was the Sharp of the firm her ladyship was pleased to entitle "celebrated.

  3. That from which we suffer most profoundly and personally is almost incomprehensible and inaccessible to every one else: in this matter we are hidden from our neighbour even when he eats at the same table with us.

  4. It was intended that a human entreaty should be more profoundly impressed upon the Gods by virtue of rhythm, after it had been observed that men could remember a verse better than an unmetrical speech.

  5. At the sight of such figures even as Spinoza, do you not feel a profoundly enigmatical and disquieting sort of impression?

  6. Her expression of fatigue under the sonorous ring of statistics poured out from Cougham was translated by Palmet into yawns and sighs of a profoundly fraternal sympathy.

  7. For six weeks did the robber sheik hold the trade route of the earth, while our liege lord, the West Wind, slept profoundly like a tired Titan, or else remained lost in a mood of idle sadness known only to frank natures.

  8. The love that is given to ships is profoundly different from the love men feel for every other work of their hands--the love they bear to their houses, for instance--because it is untainted by the pride of possession.

  9. Its connection with the beginning of a great movement in the English Church will make it to the thoughtful reader more profoundly suggestive than many biographies crowded and bustling with incident.

  10. In this he is profoundly characteristic of the Florence of that century, of that in it which lay below its superficial vanity and caprice, a certain old-world modesty and seriousness and simplicity.

  11. His affection for Meryl still existed; he admired her profoundly as before.

  12. He had risen from his chair; he was supremely, profoundly interested.

  13. Madame," he stammered, "I apologize profoundly for my intrusion at such an hour.

  14. I don't know about wonderful; it's a profoundly interesting condition.

  15. She had heard the call of the generations in the end--the appeal of the race that moved her nature more profoundly than did the erratic ardours of the individual.

  16. To a woman at once rashly spirited and profoundly feminine the pathos of his boyish struggle appealed no less forcibly than did the virility of his manhood.

  17. It is true that all these new conquests are fundamentally and profoundly based upon the psychical needs of the individual; but the intellectual element has now been added, transforming an impulse into a conscious and voluntary quest.

  18. The two classes of work are profoundly different.

  19. We may profoundly lament this tragical state of things, but we can neither controvert it nor alter it.

  20. I do not find that they are disputed by Haeckel, and I should be profoundly astonished if they were.

  21. In this same profoundly melancholic mood he approached his ball, which lay on the green, hole high, and put down a difficult put, a good three yards for his third two.

  22. Living among the people, she has become profoundly interested in them, and takes a most hopeful view of their possibilities in America.

  23. This is the profoundly suggestive question of a Ruthenian Greek-Catholic priest, of Yonkers, N.

  24. Natural selection does not cause these suitable variations; and therefore, it is argued, Darwin and his followers are profoundly mistaken in representing the principle as one which produces adaptations.

  25. On the one hand, we meet with structures which are perfectly homologous and yet in no way analogous: the structural elements remain, but are profoundly modified so as to perform wholly different functions.

  26. Now in one sense this notion is partly true, but in another sense it is profoundly false.

  27. Not only colour, but structure, may be profoundly modified for the purposes of protective concealment.

  28. Langland's satire is not so fiery nor so rhetorically intense as that of his prototype, but it is less profoundly despairing.

  29. Yet he grew Profoundly anxious, as he knew More of the dangers lurking round; But I was on enchanted ground!

  30. It is curious that two of the most aggressive controversialists in the House, being temporarily called to the Leadership, have shown themselves profoundly impressed with this truth.

  31. He was already bowing profoundly over Dorothy Atkinson's hand in the background.

  32. Believing profoundly in scientific method, Renan was unable to find in science a basis for either ethics or metaphysics, and ended in a skepticism often ironical, yet not untinged with mysticism.

  33. The play may be unpleasant, but it is profoundly moral.

  34. The British novelist with whom this French novelist is often compared, and with whom he had much in common, was also impressed profoundly by the theater of his own time and of his own country.

  35. He was so profoundly immersed that Tucker had to repeat his question.

  36. For a moment Reed looked profoundly distressed, and then he went on: "Exactly, I have no doubt, madame.

  37. And, in general, the fact that England is at war at all is a fact on one side of the original quarrel and its original motives, though it is a fact that will profoundly affect the progress and the results of the war.

  38. This firm hold over the department whose archives he kept profoundly impressed Monsieur Mazure, who was an ardent Jacobin and capable of heroism, but who, like the company of heroes, marched only to the sound of the drum.

  39. But it is important that the large Committees should be profoundly religious.

  40. I must admit that by the light of these words I seemed to catch a glimpse of a profoundly dismal future flashing across my vision.

  41. Not only the soldiers, but the prisoners, plodded on in silence and melancholy, profoundly impressed by the tragic event which had just occurred.

  42. The young girl looked for an instant at the sky, which was still profoundly dark towards the west, hiding and confusing the outline of the distant mountains.

  43. His position as a younger son profoundly influenced his future career.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profoundly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.