ADVERB
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definitely not
the prize is by no means certain
and that isn't all, not by a long sight
How To Use by no means In A Sentence
- Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
- It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
- He perceived that many forms had been subjected to what he calls degeneration, or, as we say, modification, and that the progress from the simple to the complex was by no means direct. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
- However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- Whether or not delegates were so tightly bound by their constituents and the record is by no means clear, they acted as if they were, holding firmly to their preconvention positions. Ratification
- The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.
- His was by no means the only example of academicians' pettiness.
- Copper produces a reddish tinge, which is by no means unpleasant compared with the dazzling whiteness of the nickel deposit. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
- It can also - though by no means always - result in a similar egotism and aggression.
- This notion of the singularity is the most popular (although by no means the only) current theory. Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism