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How To Use approximative In A Sentence

• But we have been obliged to limit ourselves to the consideration of such facts as are most readily accessible, so as to enable the general reader to test at once the approximative fidelity of the vindication we present, and the falsehood, scarcely glozed over with a coating of plausibility, of the vague generalities strung together as a case against the colonies by Mr Cobden and the anti-colonial faction. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
• A QUARTER-PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK P.M. There is an attitude -- approximatively called pensive -- in which the soul of a human being, and especially of a woman, dominates outwardly and expresses its presence so strongly, that the intangible essence seems more apparent than the body itself. Desperate Remedies
• I also admit that my culture in the field of LES is at best approximative . Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit
• It is a general feature of physical models that a good but approximative description of a phenomenon can be achieved with a less detailed model than a reconstruction or simulation of the same phenomenon.
• There was no positive indication of the time at which he lived, except that he could not possibly have lived later than 2000 B.C. Scholars therefore agreed to assign that date to him, approximatively -- a little more or less -- thinking they could not go very far wrong in so doing. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• Because the activity of the carbon atoms decreases at a known rate, it should be possible, by measuring the remaining activity, to determine the time elapsed since death, if this occurred during the period between approximatively 500 and 30,000 years ago. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 - Presentation Speech
• Moral or extrapatrimonial damage is often difficult to put a figure on in an exact or even approximative manner. It pays to have hurt feelings when you complain to the HRC's
• A failure to notice these quam proxime forms in Book 1 blinds one to the subtlety of the approximative reasoning Newton employs in Book 3. 7. Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• The approximative production sometimes lets this album down slightly, yet it also gives it an interesting unfinished feel and fragility.
• (The amounts are approximative and come from public figures.) American Wine Blog Awards 2008: Vote for Your Favorites