Sentences with 'vastly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word vastly and other words derived from it.
• « Technology made the new imperialism possible. It vastly increased the speed of communications, armed European soldiers with advanced weapons that overwhelmed resistance, and protected Europeans from tropical diseases. »
• « American resource production and industrial output vastly outstripped European production over time; as early as the 1870s astute European observers correctly anticipated the rapid acceleration of American production. »
• « The Persian armies had landed on the plain of Marathon - 40 kilometres north of Athens - with their 100,000 infantry and 10,000 horsemen. The Athenians, vastly outnumbered, met them and forced them back to the sea; this defensive tactic is recognised as a masterpiece of military art. »