The mayor emphatically promised to address the city's rising crime rates.

Her emphaticness during the meeting made it clear she would not compromise.

Her emphatic denial convinced everyone in the room.

In the dialect study, the linguist transcribed each emphatic as a separate phoneme.

Linguistics students analyzed several emphatics in the dialogue to understand how speakers stress meaning.

Her emphatical refusal surprised everyone in the room.

At the symposium, a paper argued that the emphatic state seen in Aramaic and Old South Arabian functioned not merely as emphasis but as a morphological signal of an agglutinated determiner, a feature some scholars reconstruct for Proto‑Semitic.