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Example sentences for "almost entirely"

  • The walls are spoken of by all visitors as almost entirely in ruins, and as presenting no peculiarities of construction when compared with the other palaces.

  • These ruined piles have served as quarries to supply building material at Ticul, which is almost entirely built of stone.

  • After a few minutes, when the sulphur is fully kindled, that vent-hole must be almost entirely shut, by relaxing the cord; when the whole apparatus is to be let alone for a sufficient time.

  • The combined charcoal, however, changes by the action of muriatic acid into gas and oil; sulphuric acid also occasions a great loss of carbon, and nitric acid dissipates it almost entirely.

  • When first employed, the troughs of hot water were quite open; they are now usually covered in, so as almost entirely to obviate the objections to which they were previously liable.

  • A tenacious mucilage will be produced, almost entirely soluble in water.

  • Fragments of this kind of paving were found scattered about in two sandy heaps, almost entirely devoid of other debris, whilst the adjacent earth, of a blackish colour, contained a large quantity of relics of all kinds.

  • We are astonished, therefore, when we ascertain that, on the contrary, the skull of the man of the stone age is almost entirely similar in appearance to those of the existing Caucasian species.

  • In the one case intellectual beauty is sought to accompany the sensorial, in the other the production of beauty which is not purely or almost entirely sensorial, is not even pretended.

  • The rock of Fanet is almost entirely quartzite, a metamorphosed sandstone, often pure and glittering quartz.

  • The formation is almost entirely trap or basalt, and there is no cliff-climbing, the rock being crumbly and unsafe.

  • Upon the produce of these vineyards the population of the island is almost entirely supported.

  • Charcoal is almost entirely composed of it.

  • Though belonging probably to the middle of the Sutra period, Panini must be regarded as the starting-point of the Sanskrit age, the literature of which is almost entirely dominated by the linguistic standard stereotyped by him.

  • The fourth section, which is almost entirely composed in clokas, is probably a modern addition, and even the third is of somewhat doubtful age.

  • There are many other interesting features of the "Asphaleia" stage, which is almost entirely fireproof, and tends not only to minimize the danger of fire, but also to insure the safety of the workmen and artists.

  • As a trick, on being encored, the sword swallower borrows a cane from a person in the audience, and swallows it almost entirely.

  • Certain eaters of burning tow proceed as follows: They form a little ball of material which they tightly compress and then light, and allow to burn up almost entirely.

  • The most important industry - and largest exporter - is textiles and clothing, which is almost entirely in private hands.

  • Those executives now rested their power almost entirely on the members returned by those very same rotten boroughs.

  • It is almost entirely directed to preventing the Irish Legislature from establishing any new religious privileges, or interfering with any existing religious rights.

  • These men go almost entirely naked, except when engaged in war.

  • Its most important industry - and largest exporter - is textiles and clothing, which is almost entirely in private hands.

  • King established and carried on almost entirely at her own expense the South Dakota Messenger, a campaign paper which was of the greatest service.

  • Woman suffrage has had the effect almost entirely to exclude notoriously bad or immoral men from public office in the State.

  • There are no women trustees on the board of any State institution, although the charitable and benevolent work is almost entirely in the hands of women.

  • His wife and six children he has so disposed of, as to be almost entirely independent of him of any support.

  • It is, however, almost entirely as warp and weft and rarely as pile that it is used.

  • Baked bananas agree with many people well, but just as soon as this was eliminated from her diet her acne began to improve and before long had disappeared almost entirely.

  • Meat, if well digested, is almost entirely dissolved in the stomach and becomes a fluid.

  • The feeling of fatigue is almost entirely subjective, in the sense that, if patients are required to do something, they are able to accomplish it by a little urging, though a moment before they were sure that they could not.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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