Synonyms

1. circumstantially

Sentence Examples

1. After adjusting one minutely, I looked over my shoulder.
2. After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to attic, we came to the conclusion that the dining-room contained any effects which might belong to the Count and so we proceeded to minutely examine them.
3. His photograph, which was hung with those of the rest of the members at the Reform Club, was minutely examined, and it betrayed, feature by feature, the description of the robber which had been provided to the police.
4. It shimmered in red, each scale minutely detailed, the coils of muscle beneath its skin almost tangible.
5. For some minutes he continued to scrutinize the drawing minutely where he sat.
6. Five stalls away, examining another octopus, I gave a thumbs-up, and Sarah nodded minutely.
7. Getting upon the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over the head-board minutely at the second casement.
8. Suddenly starting from a proposition, exactly and sharply defined, in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness, he rejected the forms of customary logic, and by a crystalline process of accretion, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur, or in those of the most airy and delicious beauty, so minutely and distinctly, yet so rapidly, that the attention which was yielded to him was chained till it stood among his wonderful creations, till he himself dissolved the spell, and brought his hearers back to common and base existence, by vulgar fancies or exhibitions of the ignoblest passion.