How to Use highly in a Sentence

highly

adverb
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  • She is one of the most highly respected journalists in the country.
  • The 57 winners are the items that came out on top, highly rated and raved about by our testers.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The sap from the plant’s leaves and stems may cause highly sensitive people to break out in a rash.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The documents found in the office were some of the most highly classified of the entire batch.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
  • You are blessed and highly favored, and August will remind you of this!
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The highly flared structures found in the new study belong to a class of lipids called plasmalogens.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
  • Case in point: Almost the entire site is 40% off, and select, highly giftable picks are 60% off.
    — Jake Smith, Glamour, 24 Nov. 2023
  • With suicide by a highly lethal method there is almost never a chance to go back.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Inside the labyrinth of the upper floors, men sniffed a highly volatile liquid called butyl nitrite—poppers, as the type of drug is still known.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • The light is a nice touch, as is the highly Instagrammable atrium, with its sequence of blonde wood forms that curl in on themselves.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • This shower from Amazon is made of highly durable teak hardwood with a large, non-slip base.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 June 2024
  • The moment has been highly discussed and memed online since the finale aired on Sunday night.
    — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • Easy access and the features most anglers need weighed highly.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • Squirrels find the rhizome roots distasteful and are deterred by the highly perfumed scent of the blooms.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Even by the standards of a workplace drama, the firm of Pearson Hardman is highly chaotic.
    — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Over the last three and a half years, record numbers of people quit their jobs, many of them to pursue positions that were more highly paid.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The art of stadium pop pageantry has been highly refined in the past decade, and most tours these days arrive with their own high-tech bells and whistles.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
  • However, our research shows that farm parents are highly aware of the risks.
    — Florence Becot, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
  • Lab results: Although testers gave the service good scores for the beef and seafood, the poultry was also rated highly.
    — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2023
  • While the entire series is highly worth your time, episode seven is the kind of television that speaks to the power of change and taking big swings.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The performance of highly successful college coaches who made the leap to the NBA (and who did not play pro ball) is modest at best.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
  • Even in very small amounts, raisins can be highly toxic to dogs, causing kidney damage in just a few hours, McCarthy said.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The Denver franchise had a weak ownership group, but the upside was highly promising.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 1 June 2023
  • But the subject matter has meant the film was always highly controversial in Japan.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Joshi doesn’t blame the market for valuing tech companies so highly.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • As their name implies, the children of the 80s in China were highly competitive in school and cutthroat in their careers.
    — Byrachel Shin, Fortune, 29 July 2023
  • It’s highly recommended to do so in the planning stages of the trip, but virtual chats will also be available on the day of visits.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Also highly unlikely Fields, a one-man gang in 2022 who now has more support around him, loses his job.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • Net interest income, a key way banks make money and a metric that’s highly sensitive to interest rates, was $23.5 billion, up 3% on the year.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Here is a highly specific guide to San Francisco dining.
    — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024

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