Example sentences for: virtually

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

  • But a chair is virtually anything for an individual to sit on and cap, etymologically at least, originally meant cape (with a hood) or so the OED has it.

  • Over the next 15 years, Prusiner won over virtually everyone to his prion hypothesis--the lay press, the scientific press--but not the researchers in his field.

  • And as for the "unprecedented" scale of the fund-raising goal: Virtually every dimension of Clinton's 1996 fund-raising was on an unprecedented scale, as we've long known.

  • Even the most superficial analysis of any speech community would reveal that certain varieties of speech are prestigious and others are stigmatized, and that what determines a particular variety's status has virtually nothing to do with the internal features of that variety and everything to do with the class, and in this case the race, of the speakers involved.

  • Krauthammer and Bill Kristol ( This Week ) are virtually alone in worrying about the distributional consequences of a sin tax (Kristol endorses middle-class tax cuts as offsets).


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