Example sentences for: altogether

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

  • In some discussions of hierarchies of medical evidence, basic physiology and biochemistry is put at the very bottom or is ignored altogether.

  • The better strategy would be to cede it altogether, leaving blacks to enjoy their Pyrric victory.

  • Etymologists say it originally meant dueño de una casa `lord, or master, of a house' and is a contraction of duen de casa . Duen is the apocopated (cut-off) form of dueño , which stems from the Latin dominus . As the Spanish word evolved, the de was suffixed to the duen , the casa was omitted altogether, and el duende thus became “the lord of the house.”

  • A video replay of the speech, however, shows that the swish was the sound of a jump shot missing the rim altogether.

  • Among those buzzing around recently have been political oddballs who seem to hail from altogether different planets: Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader, Donald Trump, Lowell Weicker, and Warren Beatty.


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