Virtually

Examples

• From the late summer of 1878 and to the fall of 1887 Edison was intensely busy on the electric light, electric railway, and other problems, and virtually gave no attention to the phonograph. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were beyond the hearing of the table, Mrs Dengelton had sailed on ahead to the drawing-room, so they were virtually alone. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• My captor, whose name was Tars Tarkas, was virtually the vice-chieftain of the community, and a man of great ability as a statesman and warrior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If he always goes on in the same way, he must be, virtually, about two hundred years old, at present. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The disparity I have mentioned, therefore, almost ceases to be disparity, and (virtually) all but disappears. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• While each set constitutes virtually a separate stage, they are all on the same floor, without wings or proscenium-arches, and separated only by a few feet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You are to understand that we are this very day virtually complete. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The boy virtually replied that as he had the honour to be a Briton who never never never, there was nothing to prevent his going in for it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Because they have virtually adopted Bella, and will provide for her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Lydgate has virtually rejected any further service from me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You shall be Mrs. Rochester--both virtually and nominally. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• What excuse can she possibly have for changing her mind about a man whom she had virtually accepted for her husband more than two years ago? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In name they were parishioners, but virtually they belonged to no parish at all. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But virtually the same, virtually the same. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That, said he, is a room I have hired, nominally for a study--virtually for a post of observation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was insensible, if not virtually dead; it was mutilated, and streaked the water all about it with dark red streaks. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He was $4,000 in debt, and virtually bankrupt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He says so himself, virtually, in his answer to the notice of his nomination to the Confederate presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here they seated themselves in a row, the door being left open--thus they were still virtually in the same apartment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• General Sherman's plan virtually effected this object. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You must state to him that the land is virtually yours, and that he need have no transactions with me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Tod