How to Use adversely in a Sentence

adversely

adverb
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  • Foods that are high in calories and low in nutrients can hinder weight loss and adversely affect overall health.
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Since the panels are laid flat, snowfall during winter months will naturally adversely affect performance.
    — New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The goal is giving people adversely affected by the war on drugs a chance to break into the industry.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • In high doses, stress can adversely affect your health.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But the Rams’ momentum since the bye could be adversely affected by the aftermath of holiday gatherings and a long flight to the East Coast.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Decades of research has shown how social risk factors like these can adversely impact a person’s health.
    — Kasra Zarei, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Despite a growing awareness of the threat, ransomware has the potential to adversely affect the 2020 election.
    — Richard Forno, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Eisenman also said in the profile that their position on the war in Gaza had adversely impacted themself and other artists on the left.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Not to mention the fact that too much sun can adversely affect the rest of your body: think dehydration, heat exhaustion or sunstroke.
    — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2023
  • Without enough sleep, the mind and body can’t correctly recharge, adversely affecting health.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The group has appealed the city staff’s findings and filed a lawsuit alleging the project would adversely affect wildlife habitat and create light and noise pollution.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Politicians cite safety for passing these laws, yet none of them seems to care for the actual trans children that will be most adversely impacted.
    — Nic Rodríguez Villafañe, refinery29.com, 13 July 2023
  • The group argues if the two provisions are allowed to take effect, the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights could be adversely affected.
    — Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But a group of conservative state officials who say their states would be adversely affected want to step into the case and defend the use of Title 42.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Now, researchers say the smoke could have adversely affected the state’s freshwater ecosystems.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
  • So the lower prices at Nuits-Saint-Georges this year didn’t come as a shock to the auctioneer Cortot, who believes the market is being adversely affected by conflicts around the globe.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The surface waves were obvious and adversely affected all the swimmers.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Doctors even studied the score from each of the songs before the surgery, in order to determine if GZ was being adversely affected by the surgeons' instruments.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The condition adversely affects nerves in arteries in areas such as the shoulder.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But more important, your smoking does not adversely affect my health.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In one boycott, dozens of truckers surrounded the Capitol while blasting their horns, fearing that a climate change bill would adversely impact them.
    — Andrew Selsky, ajc, 12 May 2023
  • Haugen alleged that Meta knew its app Instagram adversely affected the mental health of teen girls but buried its findings.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Many Vietnamese from the generations following the war were adversely affected and killed by it.
    — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
  • During the revote at the convention, delegates raised concerns about how a strike pay increase might adversely affect union finances.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
  • One thing that needs to change: town partisan politics are adversely affecting our town.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • The group said the China business was adversely impacted by the slowdown in spending on the back of faltering economic sentiment.
    — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The paper backing is made from water hyacinth, an invasive plant species that has adversely affected Africa’s largest lake and the work of local fishermen.
    — Emily Shiffer, womenshealthmag.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, biologists said, shad were adversely affected by the construction of dams.
    — Mike Argento, baltimoresun.com, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The new Alzheimer’s drugs are supposed to remove plaque, which many researchers believe form and damage and kill brain cells, adversely affecting memory and other mental functions.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • But those without high-risk factors can also be adversely affected.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024

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