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Example sentences for "arbitrarily"

Lexicographically close words:
arbiter; arbiters; arbitrage; arbitral; arbitrament; arbitrariness; arbitrary; arbitrate; arbitrating; arbitration
  1. Now I can imagine anything, in the meaning that I can arbitrarily produce some foolish fancy.

  2. The government agents in the departments arbitrarily set aside the constituted authorities and replace them with Jacobins.

  3. Enjoying the right to dispose arbitrarily of fortunes, liberties and lives, they can traffic in these, while no traffic can be more advantageous, both for buyers and sellers.

  4. There is no good reason why these twenty-five Clarks, more or less, should arbitrarily be selected for the favors of Clark's Field.

  5. Possibly he had fought against this desire all the summer, restrained from breaking loose by a prudence which she had defeated by arbitrarily discharging him from his job and could not so easily restore with her change of whim.

  6. Archie and Adelle were hungry at this period for more money and felt themselves martyrized by the whim of an ill-natured old man who had arbitrarily made them wait to be wholly happy.

  7. Every nation that could be accused of having devoured a prisoner after a battle was arbitrarily declared of Caribbee race.

  8. He speedily took an opportunity of arbitrarily depriving the colony of its charter, and sent out Sir Edmund Andros to administrate as absolute governor.

  9. It is only shallow and flippant scientists, so called, who arbitrarily force deductions from mere postulates, and with one sweeping assertion strive to annihilate all history and tradition.

  10. In describing the Columbian nations it is necessary, as in the other divisions, to subdivide the group; arbitrarily this may have been done in some instances, but as naturally as possible in all.

  11. There appear to be two kinds of haze which the writer will arbitrarily call earth and high haze, respectively.

  12. In fact, the scope of the following chapters is arbitrarily extended to include all these aspects, but confines consideration only to "static" illusions.

  13. We reaffirm our opposition, declared in the Republican platform of 1888, to all combinations of capital, organized in trusts or otherwise to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens.

  14. They lessen the employment of labor and arbitrarily fix the terms and conditions thereof, and deprive individual energy and small capital of their opportunity for betterment.

  15. These appear to have been arbitrarily fixed, and graduated in amount as the circumstances of the particular accident seemed to excite in greater or less degree the sympathies or the indignation of the jury.

  16. The English seamen had been arbitrarily pressed into this service.

  17. Crown forest boundaries were arbitrarily extended and landowners near Crown forests were heavily fined for their encroachments on them.

  18. Probably his best plan would be to say 'the horde was bisected into two moieties, for exogamous purposes, and animal names, for the sake of distinction, were arbitrarily imposed on the phratry divisions.

  19. They were certainly not arbitrarily marked out later, within the phratry, for exogamous purposes which they do not fulfil.

  20. Now it moves in the higher circles of postulated relations and arbitrarily defined entities to which its humble progenitors and relatives are denied the entree.

  21. In any event, man's fate was to be arbitrarily fixed forever by an unknown power superior to all law, and to all fact.

  22. Euro If this was arbitrarily invented, it was by analogy with much mimetic Magic: they set an example of what should happen and confirmed it with a spell.

  23. If pounds arbitrarily changed their weight, and foot rules their length, while we were using them, obviously we could not weigh nor measure.

  24. The teacher needs, indeed, to supply conditions favorable to use and exercise; but something is wrong when artificial tasks have arbitrarily to be invented in order to secure application for principles.

  25. Since the mind naturally demands some principle of continuity, some connecting link between separate facts and causes, forces are arbitrarily invented for that purpose.

  26. There are but two alternatives: he must either blindly and arbitrarily take his course, trusting to luck for the outcome, or he must discover grounds for the conclusion that a given road is right.

  27. The people of Ghent carried their insolence to such a pitch that they arbitrarily dragged the favorites of Maria, who had the misfortune to displease them, before their own tribunals, and beheaded them before the eyes of that princess.

  28. Sire, I cannot believe that you would arbitrarily imprison my mother if she gave you no reason for such severity.

  29. We cannot arbitrarily by breeding, but we can by nutrition and education--to an unknown extent.

  30. Hence, rulers in Church or State may not arbitrarily surrender common property; guardians may not give up the property of their charges.

  31. In a the ordinary chromosomes, arbitrarily indicated as 10, are supposed to have already paired for reduction so that the original diploid number in spermatogonia and body-cells of the male would be 20 plus the x-chromosome.

  32. Although the notables were somewhat arbitrarily chosen by the magistrates, on the whole their selections were fortunate.

  33. Without putting Emden on trial the council arbitrarily decreed that no one, under pain of excommunication, should attend his synagogue, which was to be closed, and that he should not publish anything at his printing establishment.

  34. Dembowski was permitted arbitrarily to favor the one party and condemn the other.

  35. Most of the kings, and also their sons and courtiers, acted as arbitrarily as if there had been no code of law to set limits to their despotic will, and as if they had never even heard of the Ten Commandments of Sinai.

  36. Nothing is more evident than that the epithet of virtue is inapplicable to the refraining from that action on account of the evil arbitrarily attached to it.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arbitrarily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.