VIRTUAL in a Sentence
Learn VIRTUAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of VIRTUAL
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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.
2 The French, moreover, were virtual victors.
3 The truth was that the North was holding the South in a virtual state of siege, though many did not realize it.
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.
5 Georgia was virtually under martial law now.
6 She was her father's chief clerk, and virtually managed his Black Hawk office during his frequent absences.
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.
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
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.
10 could feel the evenness of their steps but could not do the same, as from step to step he was virtually being carried.
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.