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Example sentences for "partial"

Lexicographically close words:
partes; parteth; parthenogenesis; parthenogenetic; parti; partialities; partiality; partiall; partially; partials
  1. Pure gemmules in combination with hybridised gemmules would lead to partial reversion.

  2. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that beings produced sexually are much more liable to vary than those produced asexually; and of this fact a partial explanation will hereafter be attempted.

  3. He gives a partial translation of one, beginning the passage: "Los Indios de Zolola dizen en sus escritos," etc.

  4. By him it was first published, but in a partial and incomplete manner, much of the original text and many of the mnemonic symbols being omitted, and no effort being made to improve Rafinesque's translation.

  5. The catastrophes which produced the secondary strata and diluvian depositions could not have been local and partial phenomena, but must have extended over the whole, or a great part of the surface, of the globe.

  6. There are, in fact, no accidents in Nature; what we call accidents are the results of general laws in particular operation, but we cannot deduce these laws from the particular operation or the general order from the partial result.

  7. Salmonia was written during the time of a partial recovery from a long and dangerous illness.

  8. In Virginia, a coalition between non-taxpaying white people and negroes, under skilled and bold leadership, accomplished partial repudiation of the State debt.

  9. From that post he was ordered to move across the pike obliquely to the south, and down the east slope of the mountain, where he made his partial battle.

  10. Taking position on the right, they saw next morning that the enemy was still in partial possession of part of Beauregard's line.

  11. Such are the purity and certainty of His judgments that He cannot be partial in our favor.

  12. They nursed the general back to life and partial strength.

  13. These partial head-achs are also liable to return at the greater lunar periods, as about once a month.

  14. The hemicrania, or partial head-ach, I believe to be almost always a disease from association; though it is not impossible, but a person may take cold on one side of the head only.

  15. In fevers of debility without inflammation, called nervous fevers, I suspect deafness to be a bad symptom, arising like the dilated pupil from a partial paralysis of the nerve of sense.

  16. Partial cold bath, by sprinkling the loins and thighs, or sponging them with cold water.

  17. This is sometimes a distressing symptom of the debility of the bowels joined with a partial inversion of their motions.

  18. Metallic injections, partial cold bath, internal method as in the fluor albus above described.

  19. When I saw him he had great stupor, with slow breathing, and partial delirium.

  20. The most convenient distribution of insanities will be into general, as mania mutabilis, studium inane, and vigilia; and into partial insanities.

  21. You know that she never was very partial to your father, and latterly there has been a greater distance than ever between them.

  22. In some cases of painful disease, it is now usual to produce partial or total unconsciousness by the injection of morphia, or by the use of some other anaesthetic.

  23. It is when a partial cargo is received that danger is chiefly to be apprehended from shifting, and that precautions should be always taken to guard against such misfortune.

  24. It is probable, indeed, that our intimate communion had resulted in a partial interchange of character.

  25. When a partial cargo of any kind is taken on board, the whole, after being first stowed as compactly as may be, should be covered with a layer of stout shifting-boards, extending completely across the vessel.

  26. With this end, great attention must be paid, not only to the bulk taken in, but to the nature of the bulk, and whether there be a full or only a partial cargo.

  27. I now crawled with great caution towards Parker, without getting on my legs, and soon cut loose all the lashings about him, when, after a short delay, he also recovered the partial use of his limbs.

  28. It is then that the necessity of a cautious stowage, when there is a partial cargo, becomes obvious.

  29. This was due to several causes, one of which was the partial silting up of the harbor of Miletus.

  30. On the one hand, there is of course a general blank and abeyance of control over the realm of waking energies;--or in partial sleep a mere fantastic parody of those energies in incoherent dream.

  31. Here, too, throughout the different stages of the trance, we find a varying and partial (or elective) power of communication.

  32. And note further that as scientific introspection develops we are likely to receive fuller accounts of these concurrent mental processes, these partial externalisations of the creatures of the romancer's brain.

  33. And the very imperfection of Kubla Khan--the memory truncated by an interruption--may again remind us how partial must ever be our waking knowledge of the achievements of sleep.

  34. The book which is now at last given to the world is but a partial presentation of an ever-growing subject which I have long hoped to become able to treat in more adequate fashion.

  35. Correspondently with the first of these observations, we find that crystal-vision is sometimes accompanied by a state of partial hypnotisation, perhaps merging into trance.

  36. I confess that I am partial to these wild fancies, which transcend the order of time and development.

  37. Like most men, however, Kean receives a partial reward, at least, for his sacrifice of the praise of the many to what he feels to be the truth.

  38. At any rate, the adoption or partial adoption of universal male suffrage by several civilized nations is coincident with unexampled ameliorations in the condition of the least fortunate and most numerous classes of the population.

  39. It is upon a dispassionate consideration of the probable course of events that the question of partial disarmament should in my opinion be decided, and in France (the only country with which we need concern ourselves) what do we find?

  40. Its object is to discuss with me in a manner strictly private and confidential a plan for the partial disarmament of the Continental Powers.

  41. They will grow in partial shade or sun, and can be planted in groups in the border, or in marginal rows for edging.

  42. The King and his Family were either really or politically partial to Drury-lane, in preference to the Italian Opera; and visited the former frequently.

  43. Whether the above prohibition had any reference to such arrival does not appear; but that the King was partial to their performances is very certain, and he frequently saw them act.

  44. In Guernsey, except as regards the sea, which never wearies, there is no such even partial monotony.

  45. For it is in one key all through; it never falls out of tune or time; and it does actually represent a true, an existent, though a partial and morbid attitude of mind.

  46. But I think one has the option of silence--partial at any rate.

  47. It is true that the greatest of these were, in a fashion, only partial actions or reactions of the larger one already mentioned.

  48. May not both theist and atheist find in this line of thought a partial answer to the oft recurring modern prayer, “Help thou mine unbelief.

  49. Then there was a clatter of hoofs on slippery rock, and he lurched dripping and gasping into the partial shelter of the pines.

  50. Then he came out, and as she noticed there was an unusual pallor in his face and that his hands were trembling, she remembered he had looked as he did then once before when a partial failure of the heart's action had almost cost him his life.

  51. But still its tenure in office had been so long, and there seemed so little power in the Opposition to form a cabinet of names familiar to official ears, that the general public had anticipated, at most, a few partial changes.

  52. Who paint the scene, the sudden partial panic of the afternoon, at dusk?

  53. But there could be no view, or even partial picture, of the middle and latter part of our Nineteenth century, that did not markedly include Thomas Carlyle.

  54. Many such hours, from time to time, the last two summers--I attribute my partial rehabilitation largely to them.

  55. The rebels were in strength, and the capture of the train and its partial guard after a short snap was effectually accomplish'd.

  56. I should like to introduce you to my daughter, who is very partial to Jessie Wiles and to Will Somers.

  57. Some years before his son's marriage, Mr. Fletwode had been afflicted with partial paralysis, and his medical attendant enjoined rigid abstention from business.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "partial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adulterated; arrested; biased; bigoted; blemished; callow; chauvinistic; colored; damaged; defective; deficient; doctrinaire; dogmatic; embryonic; erroneous; failing; fallible; faulty; frequency; fundamental; half; halfway; harmonic; illiberal; immature; impaired; imperfect; impure; inaccurate; inadequate; incomplete; inexact; infant; interested; intolerant; intonation; involved; jaundiced; lacking; makeshift; mediocre; missing; mixed; monotone; monotony; needing; off; opinionated; overtone; parochial; part; partial; partisan; partly; party; patchy; pitch; prejudiced; prepossessed; qualified; scant; scanty; scrappy; sectarian; sectary; sectional; short; shy; sketchy; swayed; tone; twisted; underdeveloped; undeveloped; uneven; unfinished; unsound; wanting; warped


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    partial eclipse; partial shade; partial vacuum