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Example sentences for "more generally"

  • Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.

  • The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.

  • To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.

  • More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.

  • The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.

  • It is, however, more generally given in the form of an infusion or tincture (which see).

  • According to present usage, the word is more generally applied to the feculence deposited from the juice of the wild cucumber.

  • In nature probably the decomposition was in rare cases effected by heat alone; more generally it was effected by means of water and heat, but in either case the result ought to be almost the same.

  • But it is more generally regarded as closely allied to the phalangers, who are almost entirely vegetarians.

  • The common salmon has been known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds; more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five pounds.

  • More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.

  • And this I shall do-first, more generally, and then shall be more particular and distinct about it.

  • More generally, I shall prove that in all ages but few have been saved.

  • It is much to be regretted that hydrotherapy is not available and is not made use of more generally.

  • Lacunal tonsillitis is more generally known as folliculous tonsillitis (tonsillitis follicularis).

  • The colchicums are excellent autumn-blooming bulbs and should be more generally planted.

  • Both for fruit and ornament the mulberry should be more generally planted.

  • It should be more generally known, as it is one of the choicest of the cabbage family, and may be had at its best after the season for cauliflower has passed.

  • Sidenote: The City Hotel] The new house which was erected in the early part of the year 1794 was called the Tontine Hotel, but it soon came to be more generally spoken of as the City Hotel.

  • From this time the house was known as the State Arms, or more generally as the City Tavern.

  • More generally still, take an equation f(x, y) = 0 which involves both x and y under a functional form.

  • More generally, the clothes and furniture provided by a woman, in her single state, or brought by her to the house of her husband, when married, S.

  • It denotes the murmuring noise caused by meat boiling gently in a pot, Fife; more generally tottle, S.

  • A contemptuous designation for a female, more generally applied to one advanced in life, with auld prefixed, S.

  • Though not of recent introduction, this beautiful and excellent apple is comparatively but little known, otherwise it would be more generally cultivated.

  • It is extensively cultivated in Norfolk, and deserves to be more generally known in other districts of the country.

  • There is no apple which has ever been introduced to this country, or indigenous to it, which is more generally cultivated, more familiarly known, or held in higher popular estimation, than the Ribston Pippin.

  • It is without doubt the largest, and one of the most useful apples of which Scotland can boast, and requires only to be more generally known, to be cultivated throughout the length and breadth of that country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more and; more before; more brilliant; more closely; more considerable; more convenient; more delicate; more detailed; more difficult; more frequent; more general; more happy; more inclined; more liable; more often; more particular; more persons; more powerful; more primitive; more properly; more rapidly; more sensitive; more slave; more species; more times; more work