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Example sentences for "generally speaking"

  • Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain.

  • Upon the same occasion he drew forth a strange quantity of miscellaneous and abstruse, though, generally speaking, useless learning.

  • Acquainted with the corrupt arts by which the promises of these voters, generally speaking, had been gained, I knew not what to reply: though I felt no little chagrin.

  • The manner of Clarke was more impressive than his words: though they, generally speaking, were not unapt.

  • Generally speaking, I do not give advice nowadays.

  • Some of you write poetry--generally speaking, one of you who lives in chambers, and spends two-thirds of his day at a club.

  • What do you think of Lindau, generally speaking, Tom?

  • I don't know whom you mean by they, generally speaking; but I had the impression that poor old Lindau had once done his best to save the country.

  • I had all sorts of men to deal with in developing my property out there, but I had very little trouble with them, generally speaking.

  • A man must have great talents to please all sorts of readers; and it is impossible to please all authors, who, generally speaking, cannot bear with the most judicious and most decent criticisms.

  • Because, generally speaking, the figurative sense of a word is derived from its proper sense.

  • When the sense admits it, the sooner they are despatched, generally speaking, the better; that the more important and significant words may possess the last place, quite disencumbered.

  • In a thought, generally speaking, there is at least one capital object considered as acting or as suffering.

  • It may be said that, generally speaking, a man meddles with such things at his own risk.

  • Generally speaking, the disappointment must be caused by the wrong-doing of the person on the other side; and the most obvious cases of such wrong-doing are fraud and misrepresentation, or failure to perform his own part of the contract.

  • Generally speaking, the liability depends not on the co-operation or conspiring, but on the character of the acts done, supposing them all to be done by one man, or irrespective of the question whether they were done by one or several.

  • Generally speaking, the choice will be found to have extended further than a simple act, and to co-ordinated acts into conduct.

  • True it is, generally speaking, that "murder will out.

  • The English colonists in America, generally speaking, were men who were seeking new homes in a new world.

  • Generally speaking, mankind are not only better fed and better clothed, but they are able also to enjoy more leisure; they possess more refinement and more self-respect.

  • Were we to meet an elderly bearded goat, springing about in the air and behaving, generally speaking, like a kid, we should say it had gone mad.

  • The German post-office, generally speaking, is about the size of the Bank of England.

  • It lives, generally speaking, inside an iron cupboard with two doors.

  • Generally speaking, it is a Swiss landscape.

  • Generally speaking, to be a heroine of mine was fatal.

  • Generally speaking, as he himself said, he was full of confidence.

  • There is, generally speaking, no greater test of an author's skill than his knowledge and presentation of characters.

  • Poetry, generally speaking, is the expression of the deeper nature; it belongs peculiarly to the realm of the spirit.

  • In the first place it has, generally speaking, been a protection against foreign penetration and conquest, and in so far was beneficial.

  • The treatment of the Christians by the Turks was by no means always the same; generally speaking, it grew worse as the power of the Sultan grew less.

  • Generally speaking, the coastal strip was mainly Greek (the coast itself purely so), the interior mainly Slav.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "generally speaking" 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:
    always took; chiefly composed; dead child; dear brothers; generally accepted; generally admitted; generally applied; generally believed; generally called; generally found; generally known; generally made; generally recognised; generally regarded; generally restricted; generally understood; generally used; imitative magic; medieval romance; narrow strip; pelvic girdle; serve cold; understand what; various kinds; west tower; will wait