Example sentences for: altogether

How can you use “altogether” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This disaster cannot be ended, writes the Post , without U.S. resolve to use force, resolve that, the paper notes, has been altogether missing from the Clinton administration.

  • But while this is still true to a degree, the gap is now closing and Lisbon is becoming altogether more European.

  • There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.

  • The payments were still generally late, and once, not having been paid as of the 12 th , I made the unsettling discovery that I had somehow mysteriously dropped out of the AP payment program altogether.

  • However, once the endonuclease is lost the intron containing allele becomes more likely to be replaced with an allele that has lost the intron altogether and the cycle of invasion and successive loss begins anew.


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