Sample Sentences for
profuse
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    You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion.  (source)
    profusion = abundance (a lot of something)
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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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    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)
    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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    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)
    profusely = abundantly
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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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    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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    [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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    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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    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)
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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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    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)
    profusion = abundance (a lot of something)
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    Monday morning Coodemay and Sterrett stopped by and begged her pardon profusely and gave her five dollars apiece.  (source)
    profusely = abundantly
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