How to Use mightily in a Sentence

mightily

adverb
  • They contributed mightily to the cause.
  • She struggled mightily to read his handwriting.
  • The soldiers fought mightily before finally surrendering.
  • That said, Utah still struggled mightily to keep him, and the rest of the guards, out of the paint.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Toreros struggled mightily putting the ball in the basket.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The French, the Dutch, the British and later the Americans fought mightily over these 20 square miles.
    — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The complexion of things for the buy-buy-buy Padres would change mightily.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Aztecs have struggled mightily getting the ball into the end zone.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Alabama struggled mightily in the loss to Texas on both sides of the ball.
    — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Celtics held their own for the first quarter, but struggled mightily in the second.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • But since making the step up, the 23-year-old has struggled mightily.
    — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Jay tried mightily to beat on, to fight the current, to rewrite his past but in the end could not overcome it.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Woods was part of a safety unit that struggled mightily against the run last year.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The Colts have struggled mightily on offense most of the season.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Louisville struggled mightily on the ground in the first half and tallied just 173 total yards.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2021
  • But in Game 3, CC Sabathia struggled mightily and failed to get out of the second inning.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 29 May 2020
  • With the pass rush struggling mightily, the Cowboys don’t have time to let Lawrence work out those kinks in-season.
    — John Owning, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Challengers from the centre and left have tried mightily, and failed, to unseat him.
    — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Jones would be a godsend for a defense that struggled mightily against the run in 2019.
    — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2020
  • River Hill’s bats struggled mightily for much of the game.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2023
  • The Las Vegas Raiders have struggled mightily during the 2024 season, and now the team has lost two of its stars.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Jarvis was a first-round pick in 2020 but struggled mightily in Double-A last year.
    — The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The United States would struggle mightily to flatten the country or to take and hold it.
    — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Over the last four years, the arts and entertainment have suffered mightily as Trump held court in the White House.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Dalbec struggled mightily in the first week of the season.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Hampton scored 12 points in the fourth quarter in a game that saw Moreau struggle mightily in the first half.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Two decades ago, the chum runs crashed, but the stocks rebounded mightily in the years afterward.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Houston tried mightily to blow the game and deliver the Dolphins a big draft gift.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Missing Davis, the Mavericks' best all-around player, will hurt mightily.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The preview doesn’t offer up much in terms of storyline — has the digital world of Tron invaded reality, with light cycles splitting actual police cars in half, or have graphics in the simulation improved mightily over the past decades?
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025

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