Normally
['nɔːm(ə)lɪ] or ['nɔrmli]
Definition
(adv.) In a normal manner.
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Examples
- Instead of the two small contact wheels, however, a projecting arm carried an iron pin or stylus, so arranged that its point would normally impinge upon the periphery of the drum. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But grandfather claimed that he functioned perfectly normally no matter how much he drank except that sometimes it was very hard to wake him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He adjusted himself at once, became normally distant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had the feeling of something that had started normally and had then brought great, outsized, giant repercussions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The adjustment of the muscles is so quick and unconscious that we normally do not experience any difficulty in changing our range of view. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Normally, a stream of finely divided ore falling from the hopper would fall into that portion of the bin lying to the left of the partition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The general operation was simple, and in normally active times the mechanism and the registrar were equal to all emergencies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This has type bars which are normally above the work. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- While the pitch of the voice changes constantly, the changes are normally gradual and slight, and the different tones merge into each other imperceptibly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This promotes safety by causing the hammers to be normally and automatically held away from the firing pins. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Normally every activity engaged in for its own sake reaches out beyond its immediate self. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The process would normally be quite slow--too slow, in fact, for the tremendous quantities necessary for the large editions of the modern magazine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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