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  • When my mother called to complain, the customer service person apologized profusely.   (source)
    profusely = abundantly (a lot)
  • Garrett woke and sat up in bed, sweating profusely.   (source)
    profusely = abundantly
  • Jason hugged both of us again, thanked us profusely, and parted.   (source)
    profusely = abundantly (a lot)
  • Along one edge are Uncle's African violets, profusely purple,   (source)
    profusely = with an abundance of
  • An event was taking place at the Kubinka, a decently attended affair, which accounted for the profusion of automobiles,   (source)
    profusion = abundance (a lot of something)
  • Ork is now weeping profusely, so moved that his throat constricts.   (source)
    profusely = abundantly (a lot)
  • A sheepish Connor apologized profusely while Lucia screamed at him in Italian.   (source)
  • The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.   (source)
  • Monday morning Coodemay and Sterrett stopped by and begged her pardon profusely and gave her five dollars apiece.   (source)
    profusely = abundantly
  • [of flowers]  They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion,   (source)
    profusion = abundance (a lot of something)
  • He was quite portly, with a profusion of gray hair, and small blue eyes which age had robbed of much of their brightness but none of their penetration.   (source)
  • In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them.   (source)
  • Homer continues the cultural work of amalgamating a profusion of myths into a harmony,   (source)
  • Tate lifted the painting of the feather—a profusion of hundreds of the thinnest brushstrokes of rich colors culminating into a deep black so reflective it seemed sunlight was touching the canvas.†   (source)
  • As we drove through the streets of Amsterdam, she repeatedly and profusely apologized.†   (source)
  • Sweating profusely day and night, training in the sun, unable to sleep in stifling hotel rooms and YMCAs, lacking any appetite, virtually every athlete lost a huge amount of weight.†   (source)
  • Wang sweated profusely.†   (source)
  • Everyone was sweating profusely, and they haphazardly dropped their loads as they entered.†   (source)
  • The old woman, who was nearly blind, climbed aboard with the footman's help and thanked the Princess profusely.†   (source)
  • She looked at ease amid that profusion, waving to us, calling her greetings.†   (source)
  • I apologized profusely to Usha.†   (source)
  • He and his comrades drag the would-be rapist from the house, apologizing profusely.†   (source)
  • Almost simultaneously, Shea launched into his brilliant "It wasn't us" story while I loudly attempted to overrule him by apologizing profusely.†   (source)
  • They were pink, fat, friendly, very competent and sweated profusely.†   (source)
  • He apologized profusely for the limited fare as he doled out the goods.†   (source)
  • Her whole left arm was bloody, covered with a profusion of small bites, each the size of a thumbprint.†   (source)
  • No wonder the councilman was sweating so profusely.†   (source)
  • The excitement caused my heart to pound faster and I was sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • Blood suddenly is everywhere because blows to the head bleed profusely.†   (source)
  • Sam edged past Jon and the garrons, sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • Kai gaped at her, lips left hanging open, and though Cinder's gut reaction was to back away and apologize profusely, she swallowed it down.†   (source)
  • Karni Dorje Sherpa, the sirdar for the Taiwanese team, apologized profusely and promised to make amends.†   (source)
  • The wound bled profusely, but it was neither deep nor wide.†   (source)
  • A profusion of stars stretched from horizon to horizon, four or five times the number Rachel had grown up looking at from Barnard's World.†   (source)
  • The music slowed, transforming into something softer, and to my surprise I detected the melody of his lullaby weaving through the profusion of notes.†   (source)
  • The second was the condition of my left leg, which I could scarcely feel but which was a horrific sight, bleeding profusely and full of shrapnel.†   (source)
  • The shore of the Wooded Island was just now beginning to burst forth in a dense profusion of new leaves and blossoms, and the Japanese temple, the Hoo-den, crafted in Japan and assembled by Japanese artisans, detracted little from the sylvan effect.†   (source)
  • After she answered the survey questions, Nanci sent her a profuse thank-you, and told her she could choose the T-shirt of her choice, and directed Mae to her consumer site.†   (source)
  • If the thirty. minute deadline expires, news of the disaster is flashed to CosaNostra Pizza Headquarters and relayed from there to Uncle Enzo himself-the Sicilian Colonel Sanders, the Andy Griffith of Bensorihurst, the straight razor-swinging figment of many a Deliverator's nightmares, the Capo and prime figurehead of CosaNostra Pizza, Incorporated--who will be on the phone to the customer within five minutes, apologizing profusely.†   (source)
  • She stood lightly poised in the doorway, her chestnut hair with its mysterious deep-red glints like dying embers flowing over her shoulders in gorgeous profusion.†   (source)
  • A tiny, blue-skinned fairy apologized profusely when it fluttered into Meggie's hair as she and Mo went toward the cage containing her mother and Elinor.†   (source)
  • John Dee, chairman of Enoch Films, a division of Enoch Enterprises, apologized profusely for the confusion, blaming it on a power outage and an unseasonable fog that swept in as they were about to shoot a scene from their new movie.†   (source)
  • She shrieked, and Mack, with profuse apologies, quickly shut the door and hurried on to the next one.†   (source)
  • He did apologize profusely.†   (source)
  • It was rich, in fact, and profuse and noisy, but also, perhaps, the most alarming of markets.†   (source)
  • It began to bleed profusely.†   (source)
  • We gave her gifts, thanked her profusely, and told her not to worry about the ripped-out screens and other damage.†   (source)
  • He was not profusely thankful and there was that silence about him, that bearded, gruff, and giant silence, that unwillingness to engage the protocols of island life.†   (source)
  • Over the millennia a wild profusion of mythological explanations of philosophical questions spread across the world.†   (source)
  • Cal walked into his great-grandmother's lovely living room where African violets bloomed in purple profusion in the windows, where built-in shelves Fox's father had crafted were filled with books, family pictures, little bits and bobs of memories.†   (source)
  • She ran errands for Momma when we were busy in the Store and sweated profusely.†   (source)
  • I know, it's crazy-I mean, do you think they apologize profusely and make sure that person's family and friends and co-workers all know it was a big mistake, or do they just sort of say, 'My bad,' and take off?'†   (source)
  • Perspiring profusely, I thought: I must smell like the rest of them by now.†   (source)
  • To the left and right were the violins and cellos. whose bows moved in great waves,  and behind them in numberless profusion the piccolos, flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, and tubas were all playing at once.†   (source)
  • By now, I was sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • It didn't feel too bad, but it made him sweat profusely.†   (source)
  • She had transformed the gardens, bringing daylilies from the gardens of friends, planting flax by the garage, where it bloomed, a profusion of pale blue, like mist.†   (source)
  • My long, sordid history with the White Noise included several episodes of fainting, vomiting, and memory loss, not to mention my most recent experience with bleeding profusely out of my eyes and nose.†   (source)
  • The woman in the bed—she was scarcely more than a girl, with shining dark eyes and a profusion of jetty ringlets about her elfish, pretty little face—seemed to feel that this speech was in the nature of a reproach.†   (source)
  • I thanked Fenwick profusely as I left his salon, the only friend I'd made in months.†   (source)
  • Ryan's face was bleeding profusely.†   (source)
  • He wrapped his blanket around him tightly to prevent Ed from slipping in, but it was a hot sultry night and he was soon sweating so profusely that he couldn't sleep anyway.†   (source)
  • At first Mark wondered if the man was just sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • The first police officer to respond found Adam bleeding profusely from his neck and arm.†   (source)
  • "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed of what my son did!" said my niang, and apologized profusely.†   (source)
  • The room was freezing, but he was sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • In the evening Hattie had me help her prepare for a ball, including plucking out the hairs that grew in profusion above her upper lip.†   (source)
  • Now might be the moment to swear profusely that I had no intention of bringing up her period in any manner, much less one containing the word rag, but I feel safer keeping my mouth shut right about now and letting her play this out.†   (source)
  • I feared for her-though she could bewitch almost anyone into assisting her if she found herself too far away from home, and had many times persuaded strangers to bring her to her very door, to her father, who thanked them profusely for returning his lost daughter.†   (source)
  • He was breathing hard and sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • I could feel my heart going whump, whump, whump, and I was sweating profusely in spite of the nasty, steady, cold spring rain.†   (source)
  • Apologizing profusely, he fell to his knees to pick up several that rolled under other stands.†   (source)
  • A profusion of colors that would have been gender-marked in other places.†   (source)
  • But he continued to curse and struggle, and I butted him again and again until he went down heavily, on his knees, profusely bleeding.†   (source)
  • These were generously brought out in great profusion.†   (source)
  • The stone walls sheltered a profusion of plants.†   (source)
  • In a swirl of emotions I profusely thanked Sergeant Blue.†   (source)
  • They set the lid down, sweating profusely now.†   (source)
  • He was sweating profusely, and his face was flushed an unhealthy, overextended crimson.†   (source)
  • Soon my air comes back and with it my voice, and I thank her profusely for being patient and kind.†   (source)
  • He bled profusely over his chest.†   (source)
  • Which is how a few minutes later, after thanking the elder Monsieur de Villiers profusely for the lovely tour and dropping him off in the château's enormous—but, as Dominique mentioned, hardly high tech—kitchen, I find myself in the cobweb-filled attic with the younger Monsieur de Villiers, riffling through old trunks of clothes and trying unsuccessfully to contain my excitement.†   (source)
  • Major Rathbone is bleeding profusely from a severe stab wound.†   (source)
  • I was sweating profusely, and I suddenly became super paranoid that everyone could see my scar, that they were all about to stop what they were doing and focus right in on it.†   (source)
  • I thanked her profusely.†   (source)
  • That profusion of life.†   (source)
  • Accepting with perhaps a little too much gratitude the fine hand-rolled Cuban cigar offered him by Durrfeld, he expresses his profuse admiration for a recent German achievement.†   (source)
  • The speaker, who had a sallow complexion, a beard from ear to ear, and a black cotton cap on his bald head, suffered from nervous perspiration and sweated profusely.†   (source)
  • He got there half an hour later sweating profusely in the heat of the evening, to find Mary cool in a summer frock in the refreshing murmur of a sprinkler on the lawn.†   (source)
  • Little Jinny Stark, after all, fell, skinned her knee and bled profusely.†   (source)
  • My Lady signifies, without profuse expenditure of words, that she is as wearily well as she can hope to be.   (source)
  • She perspired profusely in the humidity.
  • There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores,   (source)
    profuse = abundant (a lot of)
  • Harry, who was sweating profusely, looked desperately around the dungeon.†   (source)
  • They bleed profusely at the lightest touch.†   (source)
  • They had a pale bark, and equally distributed branches that carried an amazing profusion of leaves.†   (source)
  • They drank huge quantities of tea and peed profusely on nearly every bag of rice they loaded.†   (source)
  • I took my warning ticket, thanked him profusely, and drove 102 until I crossed the state line.†   (source)
  • I'd calmed down by then and apologized profusely.†   (source)
  • Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize?†   (source)
  • He spied untidy mounds of hay, smelled goats and sheep, horses and pigs, dogs in great profusion.†   (source)
  • A profusion of dainty glass bottles containing the scents I loved–I loved?†   (source)
  • When Peterson finally closed the lid on the piano, Jane thanked him profusely.†   (source)
  • Sweet beets were grown in profusion hereabouts, and were served with almost every meal.†   (source)
  • "There is the grandest profusion of wild irregular mountains I ever saw," Adams wrote.†   (source)
  • I kept treading on her toes and apologizing profusely.†   (source)
  • We walked the city, slowly, inhaling and appreciating its marvelous profusion of smells.†   (source)
  • He was sweating profusely inside his costume.†   (source)
  • It's everywhere, in great profusion, and always will be.†   (source)
  • Cynthia was apologizing profusely to a bawling imp no taller than a footstool.†   (source)
  • I thanked her profusely, making no effort to hide my gratitude, and she exited.†   (source)
  • I was crying profusely now, screaming out my words.†   (source)
  • And yet she did not cry, but schooled her small voice, and thanked us profusely for our efforts.†   (source)
  • I walked to the table where Pig sat, red-faced, anxious, and sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • She apologized profusely when I commended her for the salt of her tongue.†   (source)
  • Purple and yellow wildflowers grew in profusion.†   (source)
  • It's a barren landscape, yet perfect; it's the sort of desert the saints went into, so their minds would not be distracted by profusion.†   (source)
  • He was sweating profusely, writhing against the cramps that now stabbed at his arms, still pinned painfully behind him.†   (source)
  • His forehead perspired profusely.†   (source)
  • He was sweating profusely, and Irena explained to me that he'd been crying most of time I'd been gone.†   (source)
  • For God is 'intimately present in our consciousness, causing to exist for us the profusion of ideas and perceptions that we are constantly subject to.'†   (source)
  • Bill and Charlie decided to come and see everyone off at King's Cross station, but Percy, apologizing most profusely, said that he really needed to get to work.†   (source)
  • Both bloomed in such profusion that Florentino Ariza had to bring shears and other garden tools to keep them under control.†   (source)
  • Kassad dreamily noted the four arms, retractable fingerblades, the profusion of thornspikes on throat, forehead, wrists, knees, and body, but not once did his gaze leave the two thousand-faceted eyes which burned with a red flame that paled sunlight and dimmed the day to blood shadows.†   (source)
  • The woman apologized profusely in Japanese, and then another in the line vomited, and they were all silent again.†   (source)
  • I was not prepared for such profusion and I felt the sudden urge to throw myself in, like a frog into a pond.†   (source)
  • "All over its surroundings," reported Rudolf Ulrich, his landscape superintendent, "material of any kind and all descriptions was piled up and scattered in such profusion that only repeated and persistent pressure brought to bear upon the officials in charge could gain any headway in beginning the work; and, even then, improvements being well under way, no regard was paid to them.†   (source)
  • Katherine's eyes were watering profusely now, and she could no longer differentiate objects in her immediate surroundings.†   (source)
  • Then, at the mud holes and swampy areas near the tower, a profusion of detailed stories revealed themselves: a raccoon with her four young had trailed in and out of the muck; a snail had woven a lacy pattern interrupted by the arrival of a bear; and a small turtle had lain in the cool mud, its belly forming a smooth shallow bowl.†   (source)
  • There are trees, shrubs and climbing plants in profusion—peepuls, gulmohurs, flames of the forest, red silk cottons, jacarandas, mangoes, jackfruits and many others that would remain unknown to you if they didn't have neat labels at their feet.†   (source)
  • It warmed up to about fifteen degrees in the day, still cold, but warm enough that I'd been sweating profusely.†   (source)
  • The large veins along the base of her brain bled profusely as I searched for the plane, the delicate line separating brain and vessels.†   (source)
  • By that time the crowd had dispersed, and we'd carried Chuck back to the apartment like a sack of potatoes while he bled profusely from his head wound.†   (source)
  • The scratch bled, but not profusely, and she did not think it would cause her much difficulty while flying, painful though it was.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger remembered the pit under the mountains and then looked at the sky, where the constellations sprawled in clockspring profusion.†   (source)
  • The profusion and meticulous vagueness of the information seemed to Aureliano Segundo so similar to the tales of spiritualists that he kept on with his enterprise in spite of the fact that they were in August and they would have to wait at least three years in order to satisfy the conditions of the prediction.†   (source)
  • For a brief second, I was distracted by the profusion of white blossoms that hung in garlands from everything in the room that wasn't alive, dripping with long lines of white gossamer ribbons.†   (source)
  • In their absence, the dwarves had carved a profusion of statues, many depicting monsters and deities locked in epic battles.†   (source)
  • Once outside, Max found that he was sweating profusely; he had soaked through his shirt and even the outer suit.†   (source)
  • Giant grey-green sentinels loomed above them now, and spruce and fir and soldier pines in endless profusion.†   (source)
  • In the enclosed backyards of the city, cherry blossoms burst into flower, followed by a profusion of lilacs in bloom.†   (source)
  • Thereafter dishes and diversions succeeded one another in a staggering profusion, buoyed along upon a flood of wine and ale.†   (source)
  • He started bleeding profusely.†   (source)
  • I found myself at home there, again forsaking dreams of ethereal simplicity for what another's gentle insistence had given me, because the air was sweet like the air of our courtyard in the Rue Royale, and all was alive with a shocking profusion of gas light that rendered even the ornate lofty ceilings devoid of shadows.†   (source)
  • Bourne dragged him out of sight into a latticed arbour with a profusion of bougainvillaea that reached nearly 6 feet high.†   (source)
  • One of the adjudicators from Toronto praised Stephen profusely, both as a choir leader and as a pianist, and the newspaper reported, "Stephen Nakane—a young man with a future."†   (source)
  • 'But he's still bleeding profusely.†   (source)
  • They reached the entrance, a latticework archway profusely covered with baby roses, and walked inside.†   (source)
  • Not for her were the flaring, coarse, scant garments whose lack of seemliness was supposed to be atoned for by a profusion of cheap, sleazy trimming.†   (source)
  • At the back of the cavelike recess underneath the shelf was an enormous citadel adorned with a profusion of towers and parapets.†   (source)
  • She had been showing some signs of stress, and wincing slightly at the profusion of bright colors, so I expected some sort of irritable outburst, but instead she merely gestured acquiescence.†   (source)
  • Deanna thanked her profusely and asked for the lady's name, "so she could write about another person who epitomized hospitality.†   (source)
  • Padre Esteban thanked his fellow priest profusely for their kind gesture, but the boys had told him that they'd left Monterrey together and refused to be separated even for one night.†   (source)
  • I will immediately escort our young doctors, thanking them loudly and profusely past the police ranks until they can dash to the aircraft.†   (source)
  • The plants grew in such thick profusion, the only way to pass through them would have been to cut a path.†   (source)
  • As at Philadelphia after his first weeks there, he began to tire of lavish hospitality, the "profusion of unmeaning wealth and magnifi-cence."†   (source)
  • He'd been recalled because all the pianists had complained so profusely about the out-of-tune pianos and because there simply wasn't anyone else the academy officials could hire who wasn't classified either as a rightist or an antirevolutionary.†   (source)
  • David started coughing profusely as he slid the grimoire under his pillow, alternating panicked looks between Max and his father.†   (source)
  • Working rhythmically, perspiring profusely from the intense heat of the open hearth at the other end of the room, one man grabbed a handful of dough from the vat with his left hand and tossed it onto a scale, slicing it into the approximately correct portion with a sharp blade.†   (source)
  • Jason scanned the room as best he could; it was typically rustic, a profusion of browns and reds, from dark furniture to checkered curtains, comfortable and masculine, a man's cabin in the country.†   (source)
  • He had been like an eagle or a hart, with no power of reflection, no time for the future, no time for the past, but only an unbearably rich profusion of motion, color, scent, and sound.†   (source)
  • So I thanked the Italian Twins, proclaiming the effectiveness of their surprise strategy and thanking everyone profusely.†   (source)
  • Along the ground suddenly, on both sides of the path, he saw dozens of new mushrooms the rain had spawned poking their nodular fingers up through the clammy earth like lifeless stalks of flesh, sprouting in such necrotic profusion everywhere he looked that they seemed to be proliferating right before his eyes.†   (source)
  • At this time of year, when the Gowdies were cutting their summer herbs, the bunches hung from the beams in such profusion that you had to bend almost double when you entered the door.†   (source)
  • It is a lumpy place, where the ground has heaved and sighed'into grassy mounds and the briar roses tumbled in a bright profusion of ruddied hips over graves whose markings are weathered and barely legible.†   (source)
  • There was a runaway luxuriance to the garden's ruined profusion that made it seem sinister instead of tranquil.†   (source)
  • I was perspiring profusely.†   (source)
  • They did not need to imagine ladders that would lead to heaven, or things of massive size that would astound the heart, because they had them in such profusion that it was difficult to get from town to town, and because of them the sun itself often was denied a chance to shine, or forced to break in gold through opaque ridges of ice and snow whiter than physics would allow.†   (source)
  • Beyond the barracks was a small circular building with a profusion of glass but no lights shining except a single glare in a small square structure set in the centre of the roof.†   (source)
  • Immediately bordering each opening was a profusion of tall trees and shrubbery that was in itself a natural extension of the stockade fence both left and right.†   (source)
  • She was overweight and sweated profusely in the tent, which itself had become a greenhouse of prurient fantasy.†   (source)
  • AT DUSK the next day, after wandering through the heat-filled plain without having had a single bite to eat, he came to a small hill upon which a profusion of flowers was blooming untouched, uneaten, and in colors as rich as the panels of saints and swaddled infants that he had left to the Bulgarians and Sudanese.†   (source)
  • And besides, my eldest brother had once been kicked by Yang Ping's father from behind during a fight, and even though Yang Ping's grandmother had apologized profusely and had shown kindness toward my brother, I was determined not to make friends with Yang Ping.†   (source)
  • In front of the shattered glass and the profusion of broken frames stood a marine guard, an M-16 rifle planted casually on the grass, the end of the barrel in his hand, a .†   (source)
  • An event was taking place at the Kubinka, a decently attended affair, which accounted for the profusion of automobiles, small vans and buses in the vast parking area-profusion at any rate in the Soviet Union, where such vehicles were not in oversupply.†   (source)
  • This night's profusion of post horns, this malignant, deliberate replication, was their way of beating up.†   (source)
  • P. D. thanked him profusely and we drove on down the highway, watching in the rearview mirror to see that the patrol car was not following.†   (source)
  • I expected her to praise me profusely, tell me what an outstanding job I was doing, and offer to help me in any way possible.†   (source)
  • Wild rose bushes, prickly and profuse with green, cluster along the edges of the trickle.†   (source)
  • The ceilings are high, the marble profuse, and the occasional tapestries priceless.†   (source)
  • But he was confident that between Zeitoun's reputation, lack of any prior infractions, and this showing of character witnesses—a wide swath of upstanding New Orleanians—the judge would release Abdulrahman Zeitoun with profuse apologies.†   (source)
  • Once we restarted the infants' hearts, we hit our second big obstacle, profuse bleeding from all the tiny blood vessels in the brain that had been severed during surgery.†   (source)
  • She was also famous for firing workers for absurd reasons; she once dismissed an exercise boy because his hair was "remarkably 332 bushy and profuse."†   (source)
  • I twisted my finger around the underside of the soul's body, caressing down from the first segment along the other line of attachments, as stiff and profuse as the bristles of a brush.†   (source)
  • They'd obviously been caught in traps with very strong springs, as they were bleeding profusely.†   (source)
  • Crops of unusual diversity grew in profusion and contiguity, with not an inch of ground untended.†   (source)
  • It is profusely illustrated and you will not find a dull page in it.†   (source)
  • At this he held up one end of his tilma and let the roses fall in profusion to the floor.†   (source)
  • What now runs to waste, forming scenes profusely, will be checked, stated.†   (source)
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