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Example sentences for "would otherwise"

  • The object of this clearance is to prevent the drill from seizing or grinding against the walls of the hole, as it would otherwise be apt to do when the outer corner wore off, as is likely to be the case.

  • At each forward stroke the workman's body should move somewhat in unison with the file; his arms being less extended than would otherwise be the case, and the file being under more pressure and better control.

  • The abrupt and precipitous rise of the mountains on all sides must undoubtedly tend strongly to modify the summer temperature, which, from the want of rain, and the reflection from masses of bare rock, would otherwise be oppressive.

  • Glass and earthenware vessels thus treated are far less liable to crack when subjected to the heat of boiling water than it would otherwise be.

  • Faecal matter decomposes much more rapidly when mixed with urine than it would otherwise do, ammonia and fetid gases being given off in considerable quantities.

  • Meat which has been soaked in a solution of the acid for a few seconds, and milk to which a small quantity has been added, will keep much longer than they would otherwise do.

  • In this way the country will have the assurance of better service and ultimately at lower and more even rates than would otherwise be attained.

  • Might it not require a curer at a station such as Spiggie or Ireland, or at a more distant place, to have a more efficient factor there than he would otherwise have, and perhaps also to keep money there?

  • As a consequence, it is not so well able to fulfill its functions of digestion and of craving for food, which is part of its function, as it would otherwise be.

  • All of this can be used to make the minds of patients much less disturbed than they would otherwise be by this alarming symptom.

  • Owing to the fixation required to procure proper bony union, the circulation to the part is much more defective than usual and so the repair of torn lymph and venous vessels is not as complete as would otherwise be the case.

  • In a decaying manufacture, on the contrary, many workmen, rather than quit their own trade, are contented with smaller wages than would otherwise be suitable to the nature of their employment.

  • We shall have to spend money without stint wherever the spending of it will make labor more productive than it would otherwise be.

  • There will be much to be gained by an independent shop manned by non-union labor, and the danger of this makes a trade union more conservative than it would otherwise be.

  • The profit of one year furnishes the new instruments required in the next; but the immediate effect of substituting a costly machine for hand labor is to concentrate capital, or to call it from places to which it would otherwise go.

  • The starch must be turned over every morning and evening, to prevent it from turning to a greenish colour, which it would otherwise do.

  • If corn be thus treated every other day after it is first put into sacks, it will prevent the damp sweats which would otherwise injure it, and it will afterwards keep sweet with very little airing.

  • These serve to render sensation {123} much more acute than it would otherwise be.

  • When watched thus, time seems to pass ever so much more slowly than it would otherwise.

  • Just as soon as a human being loses confidence that he or she may be able to accomplish a certain thing, that of itself is enough to make the will ever so much less active than it would otherwise be.

  • Unless one has some fine satisfying purpose in doing things, their doing is difficult and fails to accomplish as much good for the doer as would otherwise be the case.

  • And therefore, cousin, in our matter here, leaving out many things that I would otherwise treat of, I shall for this time speak but of very few.

  • The little bit of tallow, added towards the end of the operation, is intended to hinder the metal from adhering closely to the vessel, as it would otherwise do, when all the moisture is dissipated.

  • The workmen take care to remove this crust from time to time; for it would otherwise grow so thick at last as to lessen the cavity of the furnace very considerably.

  • This interest must be deep and abiding and holding, or it will not prove so successful as would otherwise be the case.

  • Because they give firmness to the touch, and enable us to apply the extremities of the fingers to many useful purposes for which they would otherwise be unfitted.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would otherwise" 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:
    directed fire; having read; would accompany; would afford; would answer; would call; would carry; would create; would endeavour; would frequently; would have given anything; would have told you; would here; would indeed; would marry; would need; would not have been; would prefer; would produce; would seek; would serve; would suffer; would want; would willingly; would wish; wouldst thou