[
UK
/bˈaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈbaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈbaɪ/ ]
ADVERB
-
so as to pass a given point
every hour a train goes past -
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.
- Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage. The Seattle Times
- 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.
- The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
- 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