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Example sentences for "universally"

Lexicographically close words:
universality; universalize; universalized; universalizing; universall; universals; universam; universe; universel; universelle
  1. Doubts were universally expressed in America and in Allied Europe as to whether the Kaiser's government would permit President Wilson's crushing indictment of Prussianism to be published in Germany.

  2. It was universally assumed that the Kaiser, with characteristic impetuosity, would rush to Vienna to comfort Francis Joseph and attend the Archduke's funeral.

  3. We felt sure that the universally awaited Order of Mobilization might be momentarily expected.

  4. Another crime is charged against him, hardly less serious than the two just named: his imperious administration of the Admiralty drove from the First Sea Lordship the man universally considered Britain's greatest sailor, Lord Fisher.

  5. It would be, would it not, the complete application to the relations of the nations, of the moral principles universally accepted as binding upon individuals?

  6. The supreme paradox, however, is in the relation of nations: it is there that we have most amazingly lagged behind in applying the moral laws universally accepted in the relations of individuals.

  7. Even in that position he felt that he should labor under disadvantages, for he knew that his course had been universally condemned.

  8. As we have before intimated, Newport presented a résumé of many different phases of society, all brought upon a social level by the then universally admitted principle of equality.

  9. Fish-plates, like rails, are now almost universally made of steel.

  10. Tramways on streets or public roads are now universally recognized as important branches of the railway principle.

  11. The efficiency of the principle once recognized, improvements and additions were made from time to time, until we have the simple acting tall semaphore signal so universally in use at the present time.

  12. These instruments, termed block telegraph instruments, are now almost universally used on all double lines of railway, and have largely contributed to the safe and efficient working of an ever increasing traffic.

  13. They have worked out many improvements in the details, and upon the thousands of locomotives on their vast network of railways, the bogie truck, in one form or another, has been universally adopted from the beginning.

  14. The Prince of Wales led forth the fair daughter of the President, universally admired as the most beautiful woman upon the great ballroom floor.

  15. The overwhelming forces shown by the enemy had intimidated even some of the most courageous of our men, but still it was universally felt that it would not do to retreat without a blow struck.

  16. This situation is, of course, recognized very familiarly and universally in the case of value-judgements.

  17. John Junius, a man universally respected, had been five times Burgomaster of Bamberg, and held that office in June 1628, when he was arrested on a charge of sorcery.

  18. There was also at that time a very small kingdom of Sicyon, with which, as from an ancient date, that most universally learned man Marcus Varro begins, in writing of the Roman race.

  19. Here is the entry in my journal of an account of them: "A bullock was killed at the house of the bridegroom, tea and cakes and spirits were freely, nay universally distributed there.

  20. The Veronica Chamaedrys appears in olden times to have been called "Forget-me-Not," a name that has since been universally applied to the Myosotis.

  21. Circe was specially distinguished for her knowledge of venomous herbs, and in later times the plants used by her were universally employed by witches and sorcerers in their incantations.

  22. In the North of England, Carling Sunday (the fourth in Lent) is universally celebrated by feasts of Peas and butter.

  23. In after years trees were almost universally regarded either as sentient beings or as constituting the abiding places of spirits whose existence was bound up in the lives of the trees they inhabited.

  24. Sauveur regards the simplicity of the ratios obtaining between the rates of vibration of consonances as something universally known.

  25. Adhering to this idea, we define the unit of electrical quantity, according to the now almost universally adopted centimetre-gramme-second (C.

  26. The thought was therefore present, both to Mayer and to Joule, of regarding heat and work as equivalent quantities, so connected with each other that what is lost in one form universally appears in another.

  27. The universally adopted measure of work, now, is the product of the force into the distance through which it acts, and in the C.

  28. In the course of the whole long walk but one man lifted his hat to Spencer, who was universally recognized, but assailed by the majority of those we met with shouts of, "Who killed Myles Joyce?

  29. This was purely personal on Mr. Gladstone's part and was universally rejected.

  30. BC: The decimal positional writing of the numerals is universally adopted in Europe.

  31. ETA 17: The history of evolution of the human species, based on MDT The primary data are taken from different dictionaries, as this data is universally accepted.

  32. BC: decimal fractions The decimal positional writing of the numerals was universally accepted but the fractions continued to be written based on image models (e.

  33. Even in this, we find the remains of the Eozoon Canadense, which is now universally acknowledged to be the petrifaction of a foraminiferous living organism with a chambered shell.

  34. He is universally beloved for his nobleness of soul and generous interest in all that tends to promote the welfare of humanity, no less than for his classical and scholarly attainments.

  35. It was then universally acknowledged that slavery was a sin and shame, and ought to be abolished, and it was expected that it would be soon abolished in every state of the Union.

  36. He told me that it had been universally read in the cottages in the vicinity.

  37. So far as I have observed, the culture of flowers, both in England and Scotland, is more universally an object of attention than with us.

  38. In the first place, I have seen in all these villages how universally the people read.

  39. It threw the shield of its "sanctity" around the now universally branded pirate.

  40. Perker has been universally admired and looked up to; Dodson and Fogg have been universally denounced; Mr. Pell has been suffered to remain unnoticed.

  41. This step which he was taking meant rupture with all his relatives, perchance with all his friends; for it would be universally declared that he had been guilty of utter baseness.

  42. He fell last evening in the trenches, where he was on duty as field and commanding officer, universally regretted.

  43. But people have always limited themselves in the material of their money to such commodities as are universally acceptable, as uniform as may be, and current as articles of export or import.

  44. Very different kinds of commodities have, according to circumstances, been used as money; but uniformly only such as possess a universally recognized economic value.

  45. Thus, for instance, wheat is somewhat lower in price at times when payments are universally made than at other seasons of the year, because a great many country people are then compelled to sell.

  46. But the precious metals, by reason of their durability and universally recognized value, possess the character of wealth in a higher degree than other commodities.

  47. Such a calculation cannot, of course, be universally true.

  48. Yet we may claim that advancing civilization has pretty universally a twofold influence on the price paid for personal services.

  49. That metals were used for the purpose of money much later than the commodities above mentioned, and the precious metals in turn later than the non-precious metals, cannot by any means be shown to be universally true.

  50. In this case, the only error would be, if they should claim to be universally applicable.

  51. Where the country population are universally needy, it sinks after a harvest to an unusually low figure, and in spring rises again very high.

  52. Their dishes are almost all prepared in that mode of dressing to which we have given the name of curry (from a Hindostanic word), and which is now universally known in Europe.

  53. In England the saving of labour and promoting of expedition are the chief objects, and in order to effect these the grain is almost universally scattered in the furrows; excepting where the drill has been introduced.

  54. But from whatever source we derive polygamy its prevalence seems to be universally attended with the practice of giving a valuable consideration for the woman, instead of receiving a dowry with her.

  55. The coffee-trees are universally planted, but the fruit produced here is not excellent in quality, which is probably owing entirely to the want of skill in the management of them.

  56. This Bible we are considering must be universally available.

  57. It seems to me that such a Book made universally accessible, made a basis of teaching everywhere could set the key of the whole world's thought.

  58. It is a tremendous exercise to read and understand, but is it universally necessary?

  59. Judged by the most varied standards and opinions the greatness of Parnell as the leader of a nation is universally conceded.

  60. At the honourable shops the work is done, as it was universally thirty years ago, on the premises and at good wages.

  61. This has been a recognized principle in Germany for half a century, or longer; is now almost universally admitted in France, and is the goal toward which the whole civilized world is rapidly moving.

  62. College authorities, recognizing the student's need of daily spiritual food, almost universally require once a day attendance at college prayers, which last from fifteen to thirty minutes.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "universally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    always; everywhere; invariably; universally


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    universally admitted; universally true