Sample Sentences for
profuse
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    Beloved, sweating profusely, was sprawled on the bed...  (source)
    profusely = a lot (in extreme abundance)
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    Garrett woke and sat up in bed, sweating profusely.  (source)
    profusely = abundantly
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    That was when I learned that, in America, you don't reveal the ending of the movie, and if you do, you will be scorned and made to apologize profusely for having committed the sin of Spoiling the End.  (source)
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    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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Finally we called on some distant relations, who scolded us profusely for not having come to them in the first place.  (source)
    profusely = a lot (abundantly)
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    Phil walked over and sat down beside me and reviewed the symptoms: abdominal pain, profuse vomiting, a fever that had come and gone.  (source)
    profuse = abundant (a lot of)
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    Thither I soon went; the uncalculating vanity of my parents furnishing me with an outfit and annual establishment, which would enable me to indulge at will in the luxury already so dear to my heart,—to vie in profuseness of expenditure with the haughtiest heirs of the wealthiest earldoms in Great Britain.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    In several instances he found green spots in the vessel walls, but never in the profusion he found for cerebral vessels.  (source)
    profusion = abundance (large amount)
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    Along one edge are Uncle's African violets, profusely purple,  (source)
    profusely = with an abundance of
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    There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores,  (source)
    profuse = abundant (a lot of)
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    "That's as false a word as ever you spoke, Mr. Glegg," said the lady, pouring out the milk with unusual profuseness, as much as to say, if he wanted milk he should have it with a vengeance.†  (source)
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    [of flowers] They startled me with their crimson faces, massed one upon the other in incredible profusion,  (source)
    profusion = abundance (a lot of something)
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    Bill was sitting at the small kitchen table, holding a bedsheet to his arm, which was bleeding profusely.  (source)
    profusely = abundantly
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