How To Use After a fashion In A Sentence
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This, however, it was easy for him to assuage, after a fashion, for the long, gray, unnourishing mosses were abundant.
Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
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I can cook, after a fashion.
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Wind south-east; cold dewless nights; the meat has dried after a fashion but not sufficient for keeping any length of time without further exposure to sun and air -- which we must do as soon as we get to camp for several days.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
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She was educated — after a fashion — at home.
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I can play the piano after a fashion.
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Typical advocates of this view admit that universals exist, after a fashion, but they deny that universals have any existence independent of their instances.
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He was tried, after a fashion, and turned over to the Roman prefect, with the recommendation that he be executed.
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'Do you speak French?' 'After a fashion.'
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The email service was restored today, after a fashion, and, providing no more than 32 messages were in my mailbox, I was able to download mail as normal.
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In the 1800s it was not uncommon for orchestral works to be arranged for piano, thereby making home performance possible, after a fashion.
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And speaking of which, after a fashion, experiments with new routes into work took me past Chariots, which looks from the outside like the bastard lovechild of a Greek restaurant and an auto repair shop.
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It is perfectly well known in Harcourt's own district that, far from being a pioneer and settler HIMSELF he simply succeeded after a fashion to the genuine work of one Elijah Curtis, an actual pioneer and discoverer, years before, while Harcourt, we believe, was keeping a frontier doggery in Sidon, and dispensing 'tanglefoot' and salt junk to the hayfooted Pike Countians of his precinct.
A First Family of Tasajara
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The pair resembled lizards, after a fashion, with long, fanged , crocodile heads and thick batlike wings, and they resembled men in their upright stance and cognizant eyes.
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'Do you speak French?' 'After a fashion.'
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While they were in that posture, in came a huge Sandal, with a pitchfork in his hand, who used to baste, rib-roast, swaddle, and swinge them well-favouredly, as they said, and in truth treated them after a fashion.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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he speaks French after a fashion
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Himself in Himself, after a fashion which we can neither describe nor conceive, predestinating all things, formed them as He pleased, bestowing harmony on all things, and assigning them their own place, and the beginning of their creation.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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I can play the piano after a fashion.
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But it IS self-propelled after a fashion...thus "bathyscaphe" is probably more accurate.
The BSNYC Absentee Art Exhibition (Part III)
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Oh sure, kids are still playing hockey, after a fashion; where I come from, they're mostly shepherded from game to game, coached half to death and heckled the other half.
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That first teacher was Barile, a coarse and unpleasing man, as well as an incapable one; but he was fair minded, after a fashion, and put Andrea into the way of finding better help.
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Set in the 1980s, the story follows the rite of passage of Nick Guest, a young gay aesthete from the provinces who finds himself adopted, after a fashion, by a grand Notting Hill family led by a thrusting Tory MP.
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The road got fixed after a fashion, here and there -- a bridge mended, a ditch cleaned out, the loose stones removed, a hole filled up, or a short section "turnpiked" -- but the days were eight - hour days and they did not sit heavy upon us.
My Boyhood
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THE first political columnist I ever encountered, after a fashion, was Walter Lippmann.
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With two months of training, She plays the guitar after a fashion.
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Behold him now, his huge body astride of an enormous horse -- for, although the grenadier was a foot-soldier, he could still ride after a fashion -- plodding along through the mud and the wet and the cold on the mission which, if successful, would perhaps enable Napoleon to save the army and France, to say nothing of his throne and his family.
The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo
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I can cook, after a fashion.
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It is sly, clever after a fashion, and undeniably effective.
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They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and "devilry" as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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He was tried, after a fashion, and turned over to the Roman prefect, with the recommendation that he be executed.
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He knew the way, after a fashion.