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Example sentences for "not really"

  • But if on the other hand 'all' is understood to form part of the predicate, then u is not really a general but a singular proposition.

  • This rule also may seemingly be violated when it is not really so.

  • To say that a thing is an 'object of thought' is not really to define it, but to explain its etymology, and to reclaim a philosophical term from its abuse by popular language, in which it is limited to the concrete and the lifeless.

  • But the mirror of metal commonly placed before the public gaze in a Shinto shrine is not really of Shinto origin, but was introduced into Japan as a Buddhist symbol of the Shingon sect.

  • It is a bird of which weird things are told; for they say it is not really a creature of this living world, but a night wanderer from the Land of Darkness.

  • But this quality is not really imparted to them by the present style of admonition, which only tells them that the young ought always to be reverential.

  • But as we do not really differ, will you let me ask you whether you consider such institutions to be more prevalent among the Cretans and Lacedaemonians than among the other Hellenes?

  • But Hermione saw that she was not really middle-aged.

  • I was frightened--I am frightened, but I'm not really a coward, Gaspare.

  • The impulse to insist that vice shall always be made attractive is not really, notwithstanding appearances, a vicious impulse.

  • This tendency is not really modified by the fundamental fact that in these matters it is only the arts that Nature makes which are truly effective.

  • And is the syllogism, to which the word reasoning has so often been represented to be exclusively appropriate, not really entitled to be called reasoning at all?

  • I do not feel as though it were the humour in it; for Byron is not really a humorist at all.

  • He is not really an aesthete at all; he is too Voltairian for that.

  • Therefore if the relation of lordship is not really in God, but only in idea, it follows that God is not really Lord, which is plainly false.

  • Since the real plurality in God is founded only on relative opposition, the several properties of one Person, as they are not relatively opposed to each other, do not really differ.

  • Therefore, if no real paternity or filiation existed in God, it would follow that God is not really Father or Son, but only in our manner of understanding; and this is the Sabellian heresy.

  • A specious Syllogism that is not really valid is called a Parasyllogism.

  • I am not really melancholy, only I would much rather you had told me openly at the time that you wished me to come to school.

  • I'll try not to think of it, father; and you're not really angry?

  • I am not really a bit brave; there is nothing good in me.

  • The man who calls "a spade a spade" is not really inferior to him who terms it "an agricultural implement for the tilling of the soil.

  • It is not really dependent on, though in many cases it occurs in connection with, the economic causes of poverty and a scarcity of women, due to the practice of female infanticide.

  • White is not really a color; all colors put together make white.

  • For centrifugal force is not really a force at all, but it is one form of inertia--the inertia of whirling things.

  • Not really a full human being; merely a decoration.

  • Why this anxiety to prove to me that you're not really serious?

  • I never feel as if I was acquainted with you--not really.

  • You're not really trying to say that capacity for madness is a good thing to have?

  • And if you did, it wouldn't matter, not really.

  • They arise, like all other wars, from the existence of a class within the nation which is not really in accord with the people of that nation, but is pursuing its own interests apart from theirs.

  • If Britain is not really at present over-populated, the same is probably even more true of Germany.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not really" 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:
    large school; not able; not care; not forget; not found; not give; not let; not long; not mistaken; not now; not quite; not sure; not unlike; not wishing; not your; nota bene; note the; nothing could; nothing like; nothing loth; nothing short; nothing will; nothing worth; nothing wrong; noticed that; working class