VIRTUAL in a Sentence

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54 example sentences for VIRTUAL, such as:
1. He was the virtual leader of the movement.
2. The French, moreover, were virtual victors.
3. Georgia was virtually under martial law now.
4. Our deputy manager is the virtual head of the business.
5. It's a virtual certainty that petrol will go up in price.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of VIRTUAL
virtual
 a.  existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact; existing in mind, especially as a product of imagination
Classic Sentence:
1  As the fellows in number one were undistinguished dullards, Stephen and Heron had been during the year the virtual heads of the school.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  The French, moreover, were virtual victors.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
3  The truth was that the North was holding the South in a virtual state of siege, though many did not realize it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  Before him lay three hundred miles of territory virtually undefended save by a few state militia and the old men and young boys of the Home Guard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  Georgia was virtually under martial law now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  She was her father's chief clerk, and virtually managed his Black Hawk office during his frequent absences.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
7  He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
8  In name they were parishioners, but virtually they belonged to no parish at all.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
9  If he always goes on in the same way, he must be, virtually, about two hundred years old, at present.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
10  could feel the evenness of their steps but could not do the same, as from step to step he was virtually being carried.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  The company has a virtual monopoly in this area of trade.
2  Argentina came to a virtual standstill while the game was being played.
3  The country was sliding into a state of virtual civil war.
4  Jaron Lanier coined the term "virtual reality" and pioneered its early development.
5  At that time the East India Company was the virtual ruler of Bengal.
6  Ten years of incompetent government had brought about the virtual collapse of the country's economy.
7  He was the virtual leader of the movement.
8  Our deputy manager is the virtual head of the business.
9  Journalists said there was a virtual news blackout about the rally.
10  Fighting and shortages have brought normal life to a virtual standstill in the city.
11  It will become a virtual world that we inhabit as an observer or a participant.
12  It's a virtual certainty that petrol will go up in price.
13  New technology has enabled development of an online 'virtual library'.
14  In the aftermath of Saturday's mass poisoning, the authorities imposed a virtual news blackout, refusing even to confirm how many people had died.
15  If we feel distress when we kill an in-game opponent, it may be because it violates our ingrained sense of morality; we know killing is bad, even when it's virtual.