Tremendously
[trɪ'mɛndəsli]
Examples
- The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead-acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sun is tremendously hot, even to me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You think so now, but there'll come a time when you will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He did not at that time, however, engage in a serious search for another form of storage battery, being tremendously occupied with his lighting system and other matters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It seems she was tremendously admired there. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He told how the force of a magnet could be tremendously increased by passing an electric current a number of times about a bar of soft iron. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- That silly ass Silverton brings them to the house--he writes poetry, you know, and Bertha and he are getting tremendously thick. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I remember how tremendously surprised I was in visiting Russia several years ago to find that in Moscow or St. Petersburg men were interested in all sorts of things besides the revolution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The price of coal, and the cost of carrying all classes of goods, was tremendously reduced. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Oh, I could be a tremendously good fellow then, Mary, and we could be married directly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the early days of logging, when modern machinery was not available, the woodsmen were confronted with the problem of moving tremendously heavy trees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With that, I poked tremendously, and having done so, planted myself side by side with Mr. Drummle, my shoulders squared and my back to the fire. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was a tremendously virile and yet sinister face which was turned towards us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oh, tremendously, last year, answered his lordship; but then I fancied it was with a woman of fashion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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