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Example sentences for "but sometimes"

  • Frequently, no detailed analysis of these conditions is possible; but sometimes such an analysis can be effected.

  • In most cases it is merely the deltoid muscle and the subcutaneous tissue over it that are bruised, but sometimes a hæmatoma forms either in the muscle or in the sub-deltoid bursa.

  • With prolonged rest and immobilisation of the spine the inflammation usually subsides, but sometimes it goes on to suppuration.

  • The fracture usually runs transversely across both nasal bones near their lower edge, but sometimes it is comminuted and involves also the frontal processes of the maxillæ.

  • A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

  • A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing.

  • A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman.

  • Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.

  • But sometimes a new potency of life seems to be attributed to the image of Death itself, and by a kind of resurrection it becomes the instrument of the general revival.

  • But sometimes he is regularly swathed in corn.

  • The log is usually a block of oak, but sometimes of olive or beech.

  • But sometimes if it happens that these pages do not tell the truth, and things turn out otherwise than they predicted, the people make no scruple of killing them as unworthy of the title and dignity of pages.

  • Maybe you won't understand what I mean, but sometimes I'd like to be good myself.

  • Most commonly they are of brick, but sometimes of painted wood, and they are set on little eminences high enough to save them from the freshets, but always so near the river that they cannot fail of its passing life.

  • But sometimes he'll say something as sharp and sensible as anything.

  • But sometimes Nature (who was not yet a Socialist) rustled her wings and heaved a sigh, lest the excesses and excrescences of their system should bring about excesses and excrescences of the opposite sort.

  • But sometimes, on a holiday, he would leave by an excursion train for Dieppe or Havre in order to elevate his mind by the inspiring sight of the sea.

  • But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat down near the window and she thought of that gay evening of long ago, of that ball where she had been so beautiful and so admired.

  • He strives to set down dreams, subtle thoughts, sometimes great, sometimes visibly forced, but sometimes magnificent.

  • I didn't know nothing about boats, but sometimes I'd go down to the boathouse and watch Bonnie Bell while she was tinkering with the engine or something.

  • But sometimes I almost lose heart about it.

  • It wasn't winter yet, but sometimes we lit the fire in the fireplace.

  • But sometimes a single species in a group is rendered sterile, whilst the others are not so; on the other hand, a single species may retain its fertility whilst most of the others fail to breed.

  • The Ibis tantalus takes four years to come to full maturity, but sometimes breeds in the second year (vol.

  • The tooth on the opposite side of the head in the male consists of a rudiment about ten inches in length, which is embedded in the jaw; but sometimes, though rarely, both are equally developed on the two sides.

  • That time trouble came out of a clear sky, but sometimes a bit of innocent curiosity betrays one.

  • But sometimes, the conditions on the heights were astonishing.

  • Often a mere touch was sufficient to shatter them, but sometimes it was not until I put my weight upon them, holding to a shrub or an earth-buried bowlder the while, that they gave way.

  • It was a riotous day, and Bob and Molly being lovers of long acceptance assumed a paternal attitude to John and Jane that was charming in the main, but sometimes embarrassing.

  • The pioneers do not go to the wilderness always in lust of land, but sometimes they go to satisfy their souls.

  • But sometimes, when she stops in here after school or for lunch, she can't help dropping things that let me know.

  • I tell you Pa has got a great brain, but sometimes he don't have it with him.

  • You would not think that this choir played tricks on each other during the sermon, but sometimes they do.

  • Sometimes he would speak thus for half a day together, and feel a quiet comfort, like a strong arm round him; but sometimes he would be silent for a long while.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being still; but according; but don; but first; but for; but found; but had; but have everlasting life; but much; but nothing; but she could not; but that; but the; but the next instant; but their; but they shall not; but was; but went; but were; but yet; butter melted; butter rubbed; butter size; buttered dish; other dialogues; special license