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[ UK /bˈa‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈbaɪ/ ]
ADVERB
  1. so as to pass a given point
    every hour a train goes past
  2. in reserve; not for immediate use
    put something by for her old age
    has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day
    started setting aside money to buy a car

How To Use by In A Sentence

  • The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
  • There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
  • Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
  • They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
  • By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
  • But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
  • He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
  • The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
  • Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
  • The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
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