sectionally

Example Sentences

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Public opinion has a more direct, a more comprehensive, a more efficient organ for its utterance, than a body of men sectionally chosen.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

A separation is not tightly in worsted and sauce, it is so kept well and sectionally.

From Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Stein, Gertrude

From here it forms a V, when viewed cross sectionally, converging at he ridge formed by the two lobes on the underside of the envelope which is known as the lower ridge.

From British Airships, Past, Present, and Future by Whale, George

At the close of the Revolution, as we have seen, its area began to be sectionally confined while the jurisdiction over it continued to lie in the several state governments.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

Jefferson was thinking nationally and not sectionally; he was ready for the great rôle he was about to assume.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert