How to Use vastly in a Sentence

vastly

adverb
  • Not all past Fed chairs have been vastly wealthy.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Besides, hair types vary vastly from straight and fine, to light, wavy, dense, and curly.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But the truth is, one brand can taste vastly different from the next.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The work flow from hip-hop can be vastly different from artist to artist.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But the study projects the true total is vastly larger.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But the numbers have increased vastly since.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The bill now heads to the House, which has a vastly different plan.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • All these projects vastly increase the value of the land in their areas.
    — Mehdi Paryavi, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The full spectrum of options is vastly broader than many are aware of.
    — Jim Hebets, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • With such vastly different trends, why are so many people sure that crime is on the rise?
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The flows of migrants and seizures of drugs are vastly different.
    — Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Get them off the streets and help the people of Venezuela have a vastly better life.
    — Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Get them off the streets and help the people of Venezuela have a vastly better life.
    — Suzanne Blake john Feng gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Barkov got the fourth hat trick of his career with three goals scored in vastly different ways.
    — George Richards, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • At the time, Kang vastly overpaid for the franchise.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Both grinders will break down whole beans, but the results are vastly different.
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But teams have vastly different deals.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
  • The border is vastly different than when the systems were built and put in place.
    — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 May 2026
  • That income gap means that their goals for a new contract will be vastly different.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • The two wins in the series for the Sox came in vastly different forms.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • That’s not likely, which means the next city election will be vastly more expensive.
    — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2026
  • And the same goes for workplaces, which can have vastly different cultures.
    — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And in several cases, the margin could have been vastly worse.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • These men are vastly different.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • His defense in center field and base running seem vastly improved.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • My experience is vastly more diverse than just one city.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Since that evening, their lives have gone in vastly different directions.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Our values are vastly different than yours.
    — Richard B. Williams, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And so vastly different from each other.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026

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