How to Use minutely in a Sentence

minutely

adverb
  • She had never been looked at so minutely or with such interest.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Over the years, Össur has been able to tailor blades to athletes more and more minutely.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The ripples spread out across the universe, causing space to be minutely squeezed and stretched as the wave passes by.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2017
  • His plan, in fact, was to write a colossal and minutely detailed work that was meant to report all the fruits of his decades of research.
    — Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
  • And each of them changes the odds of developing diabetes minutely.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
  • Firms can minutely slice and dice data on platforms like Facebook to target a select group of users.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 14 June 2023
  • When the mask slipped or seemed to slip in the breakup video, however minutely, their counterparts — gay shitposters — pissed through the gap.
    — Paul McAdory, Them., 9 Dec. 2025
  • Her mouth is pursed, minutely—maybe consternation, maybe the beginnings of a slow, ironic smile.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 May 2017
  • These segments have to be minutely controlled to meld them into a single optical surface.
    — Chris Holt, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Words made minutely different can mean wildly different things.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Because the stones were of minutely different sizes, each stone had to be measured and each gold prong carved exactly to accept the stone.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The statements are minutely detailed, suggesting the military keeps a close eye on its finances.
    — Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But they could be observed minutely, and their responses to deprivation could be recorded.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2021
  • All kinds of wheels, minutely varied screws and washers, and various mystery components were crammed into the box.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Some of the most minutely controlling, harmful, and well-publicized uses have been in warehouse work and call centers.
    — WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The two-millimeter-by-two-millimeter flexible sensor can bond to a tooth’s minutely bumpy surface.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Every daily action — from water consumption to creating a sleep and rest schedule — is minutely tuned.
    — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • And as before, two systems setting out from two minutely different starting points would soon be on totally different tracks.
    — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 26 May 2019
  • The seismic waves from a nearby earthquake will deform the cable minutely, leaving the returning light slightly out of phase with the light emitted by the laser.
    — The Economist, 16 June 2018
  • Her work was astonishing, as minutely detailed as any Copley, with a feminine, folkloric twist.
    — Jane Kamensky, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • In a universe where the best basketball prospects are minutely dissected from their freshman years of high school, the collective whiff among the cognoscenti is stunning.
    — Marc Tracy, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Lee approaches the broadly political and the minutely intimate with equally fine prose.
    — Jackie Thomas-Kennedy Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Erskine and Konkle starred in every episode, wrote the majority of the scripts, and were minutely involved in post-production.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The title may have the tang of a prog-rock album, but the book is witty, minutely detailed, and braced by common sense—a welcome gift in an often obsessive environment.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Quebec is Canada’s familiar-strange double, a return of the repressed, so like the rest of the country and yet so minutely, eerily different.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
  • And yet one of the finest novelists in history chose to devote 500 pages of dense, minutely-observed and stunningly crafted prose to her inner life.
    — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • But there’s an older, perennial instinct in American literature to claim a place as one’s own, to study it minutely and evoke its ultimate mystery.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2022
  • Even so, Zauhar seems very in control of the material, ensuring that the sense of artlessness feels minutely crafted and curated.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Weather varies, moods swing, sinuses clog; the steak sliced from this end of the loin is minutely more tender than the steak sliced from that end; table companions are a distraction, an enhancement, or a nightmare.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2019

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