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Example sentences for "general way"

  • Peters now knows in a general way of what these indentures were significant, and I will in a moment explain to you their general meaning; but first look at this fac-simile.

  • But as most of the equations in our calculation are approximative, I prefer that the element of gravitation should be handled in a general way.

  • A moment later Bainbridge arose to depart; but he lingered for a moment, standing, and with his left hand resting on the centre table, began to speak in a general way of the great antarctic crater and its surrounding wonders.

  • Speaking in a general way, it would be correct to say that it would not be easy to get soil in too friable a condition for the advantageous reception of medium red clover seed.

  • In a general way, the southerly limit of vigorous and reliable growth may be put at about 37°.

  • Speaking in a general way, the medium and mammoth varieties can be grown at their best between parallels 37° and 49° north latitude.

  • She bowed before my intellectual status in a general way, but since she had good reason to doubt the quality of my English enunciation, she doubted my Yiddish interpretations as well.

  • Then tell your fellow to go to all the black devils.

  • The bookbinder's wife seized her by an arm, but she shook her off.

  • And once the matter had presented itself to me in that light it somehow began to vex me.

  • In a general way, the nerve fibers resemble an electric cable wire with its central rod of copper, and its outer non-conducting layer of silk or gutta percha.

  • Of course the living skin can be examined only in a general way.

  • The various physical processes by which the products of digestion are transferred from the digestive canal to the blood may be illustrated in a general way by the following simple experiments.

  • Lining the walls of this cavity, just as in a general way, a paper lines the walls of a room, is a delicate serous membrane, called the peritoneum.

  • Well, upon my word, Lady Laura, I am so poor a judge of the merits of young ladies in a general way; but she really appears a very amiable young person.

  • This coldness was all the more striking on account of the perfect urbanity of Mrs. Fairfax's manners in a general way, and a certain winning gentleness which distinguished her on most occasions.

  • She could only have argued in a general way, that Mrs. Granger was frivolous, and that any kind of wrong-doing might be expected from so light-minded a person.

  • In a general way Mr. Lovel would have been inclined to protest against being pitied, either in his own person or that of his belongings, by such a man as Daniel Granger.

  • Preachers can only be put into classes in a general way.

  • I had done it before with other business men in spirit or in a general way, but with him I was more particular.

  • He would not send money to capitalists fighting capitalists, and in a general way he has compelled capitalists to coöperate.

  • In a general way, measuring is a wholly human operation, which implies that we really or ideally superpose two objects one on another a certain number of times.

  • So we must at once indicate in a general way, before passing to the detail, why explanations from "adaptation" seem to us insufficient.

  • There is no relevance between time and occurrences, save in a vague, general way.

  • Then Nature began paying attention to George Henry Harrison personally, in a manner which, however flattering in a general way, did not impress him pleasantly.

  • You couldn't tell whether he was going for Sydney or Melbourne, but you knew he was going for Australia in a general way.

  • I have taken the pains to point out these things in a general way, for obvious reasons.

  • It was only in a general way that we touched upon each other's concerns, this being dangerous ground with Farrar, who was ever ready to close up at anything resembling a confidence.

  • Bob knew his father's plans only in a general way, but in the past week he had come to know his father with a fair amount of thoroughness.

  • It suffices to say of it here, in a general way, that the most vigorous activity has been in the departments of history, of applied science, and the discussion of social and economic problems.

  • I know in a general way that a sunset light induces one kind of talk and noonday light another, and I have learned that talk always brightens up with the addition of a fresh crackling stick to the fire.

  • We recognize this in a general way, but the relation of temper and disposition to the weather has never been scientifically studied.

  • We have spoken of them in a general way in our "Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy, etc.

  • When we wish to build a house, we first think of "house" in a general way.

  • I'll know better next hitch, for boughten wit is the best in a general way.

  • The winter buds of the open-bud group resemble the winter buds of the walnuts in a general way, and in artificial hybridization experiments I seem to note a close relationship between the open-bud hickories and the walnuts.

  • These may be selected in a general way by dumping the freshly gathered nuts into a tub of water.

  • I am merely speaking offhand in a general way, stating that the hickories, open bud and scale bud, both seem to cross rather freely back and forth.

  • At the same time a letter is to be written separately, describing the tree in a general way, and giving the name of the town in which it grows.

  • In a general way it is also necessary to live moderately in every respect and so avoid all excesses.

  • In a general way, soup, vegetables, farinaceous food or a little meat and fruit is sufficient for the principal meal.

  • A human embryo is never like a little reptile, but the developing organs pass through stages which very closely resemble the corresponding stages in lower types which are in a general way ancestral.

  • Feathers are in a general way comparable to the scales of reptiles, but only in a general way, and no transition stage is known between the two.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general way" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    game birds; general arrangement; general average; general causes; general color; general conception; general council; general counsel; general election; general engagement; general idea; general interest; general literature; general merchandise; general pacification; general plan; general practice; general resemblance; general rule; general truth; general truths; general very; general way; generally distributed; himself again; prose translation