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Example sentences for "means rare"

  • I never saw an Indian mechanic in any of the towns; there is no instance of a wealthy Indian; rich mulattos and negroes are by no means rare.

  • Countries beyond 65° north latitude may be considered as the homes of the Mountain Finch, it being by no means rare in Lapland, and very numerous in Finland; how far east it may be found we are at present ignorant.

  • Banks' Raven Cockatoo belongs to New South Wales, and is principally found in the district between Moreton Bay and Port Philip, though by no means rare in the immediate neighbourhood of Sydney and other large towns.

  • If the account, however, furnished by Warburton to Stukely may be relied upon, such objects are by no means rare.

  • Examples of this use of the antlers of the deer are by no means rare.

  • Such relics are by no means rare, notwithstanding the perishable nature of the material of which they are constructed.

  • This class of weapons, or Spear-blades, as they may be termed, is by no means rare.

  • Hence he is by no means rare in collections.

  • Giovanni, a fresco painter, whose Madonnas were then by no means rare in the city.

  • Primary cancer of the gall-bladder and gall-ducts, although not of frequent occurrence, is by no means rare.

  • Cases in which the diagnosis rested upon the history, upon the co-existence of undoubted syphilitic symptoms, and upon improvement under specific treatment are by no means rare.

  • In the dacites felsitic groundmasses are by no means rare, but microcrystalline types consisting of plagioclase and sanidine with quartz are more prevalent.

  • They consist largely of limestone; but marls and sandstones are by no means rare, and there are considerable gaps in the succession indicating that the region was not continuously beneath the sea.

  • It is by no means rare to find that the immediate ancestors of those afflicted with superfluous fingers and toes, club-feet, or hare-lips, were also the subjects of these malformations.

  • Instances of noble devotion, broad and generous sympathy, and distinguished self-sacrifice, are by no means rare in single women.

  • When that poison was used more freely than now, the disease in question was by no means rare.

  • Displacement of the scapular extremity is by no means rare, and occurs to a greater or less extent, according to the laceration of the ligaments.

  • I have ever found the book auctioneers most courteous and considerate in their dealings--and the same can be said of the book trade generally, among whom instances of liberality to libraries are by no means rare.

  • These instances of a great verbal memory are by no means rare, although some of them appear almost incredible.

  • Even more provoking was the revocante, who withdrew or revoked a confession--an occurrence by no means rare, as might be expected from the methods employed to obtain it.

  • Cases of this kind were by no means rare.

  • This delicious method of cooling the air, which was by no means rare in wealthy and noble houses, was called sparsio (sprinkling).

  • Inscriptions similar to those quoted in our chapter were, however, by no means rare in all times.

  • This bold method of rendering a hostile ship unfit for battle, was by no means rare.

  • It is also by no means rare in children in whom that skin affection, eczema, of which I have already spoken, outlasts the time of infancy, and becomes general and severe.

  • Attacks of earache are most frequent before the first set of teeth have been cut, and are by no means rare in young children, who are perfectly unable to point out the seat of their sufferings.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "means rare" 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:
    adult life; another large; historical novel; industrial conditions; lady came; light gray; make people; making peace; means always; means clear the guilty; means confined; means inclined; means literally; means rare; means sure; means that; means the; means uncommon; means untried; members were; order administrative; other ladies; save when; second husband; space and; strong odor