in a sense
Example Sentences
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She also was, in a sense, both diplomat and spy.
From Los Angeles Times
“I started off with a great experience with the Packers and didn’t have anything else to compare it to so you don’t, in a sense, take it for granted,” Adams said of participating in the playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times
In a sense, the film is a biography of a property—alive, indignant, eager to speak of its own spirits.
The film is, in a sense, a necrology—a catalog of death—that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering.
"That's the time period that we are seeing, when small worlds are being cratered with these violent collisions or even being destroyed and reassembled into different objects. It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old."
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
