fragmentarily

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentarily
Adverb
  • If the system strengthens into a tropical storm or hurricane, its path would be somewhat unusual.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 15 July 2025
  • China's trading relationship with the U.S. somewhat stabilized in June, after negotiators secured a tariff truce in early May.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
Adverb
  • And yet, Lerman, now 33, manages to keep a relatively low profile.
    Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
  • The east swelters while Phoenix gets a reprieve While Phoenix has enjoyed relatively tame temperatures for much of July, large swaths of the country are scorching.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
Adverb
  • What’s more, quite unlike the audience for other performers in their 70s who’ve passed through recently, the crowd skewed young; the median age might’ve been half his age.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 21 July 2025
  • The distinction between a studio apartment and a one-bedroom apartment is quite simple, but understanding why the former can be a better option than the latter is slightly more complicated.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 21 July 2025
Adverb
  • Other Central Florida locations scored moderately for the weekend.
    Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
  • Sales at restaurants, the lone services component within the Census Bureau report and a barometer of discretionary spending, rose moderately.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 July 2025
Adverb
  • The Hunting Wives begins with a pretty basic soap opera premise: Sophie O’Neil (Brittany Snow) has just moved from Boston—sorry, Cambridge, where the show keeps reminding us Harvard is—to small-town Texas for her husband Graham’s (Evan Jonigkeit) new job.
    Judy Berman, Time, 21 July 2025
  • Wright appears pretty set as the starting right tackle.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2025
Adverb
  • Some can serve as bulking agents, absorbing and retaining water all that stuff moving through your gastrointestinal tract so that in the end, or rather out the end your poo can move more readily.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • Neither of the ladies’ approaches is at all effective and, instead, rather harmful.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 24 July 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Fragmentarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentarily. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!