GENERALLY in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for GENERALLY, such as:
1. It was generally a positive conversation.
2. The house is in a generally poor condition.
3. He was a generally unpopular choice for captain.
4. People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
5. The sandwich bar is generally packed at lunchtimes.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GENERALLY
generally
 ad.  without regard to specific details or exceptions
 ad.  usually; as a rule
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She ate well, declaring that the mild weather made her feel better, and pressed a second helping of beans on Jotham Powell, whose wants she generally ignored.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  But I generally make out to drive over there round about New Year's, and once in the summer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  And then it's generally to some desperate old widower with a large plantation and a dozen children.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Everyone knew that her swoons were generally mere ladylike pretenses but they loved her enough to refrain from saying so.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Shootings and cuttings went on here with such regularity that the authorities seldom troubled to investigate and generally left the Shantytowners to settle their own dark affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  Contemplating the suave indifference with which he generally treated her, Scarlett frequently wondered, but with no real curiosity, why he had married her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
7  Most timidities have such secret compensations, and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
8  I generally HAVE got what I wanted in life, Miss Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
9  The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
10  Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot is the forward part of the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
11  He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
12  Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  There are generally forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled after our artificial fashion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
14  They generally are of two sorts; those composed almost entirely of females, and those mustering none but young vigorous males, or bulls, as they are familiarly designated.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
15  But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellence of heart.
2  Experts generally agree that diet has an important bearing on your general health.
3  People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
4  At the very least, men generally assume their ambivalent feelings are normal.
5  Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
6  If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous.
7  The new drug will be generally available from January.
8  The sandwich bar is generally packed at lunchtimes.
9  It was generally admitted that the government had acted too quickly.
10  We spent the weekend gadding about London and generally enjoying ourselves.
11  He was a generally unpopular choice for captain.
12  The house is in a generally poor condition.
13  It was generally a positive conversation.
14  Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own.
15  The fall in the number of deaths from heart disease is generally attributed to improvements in diet.