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UK
/ˈɛvɹi/
]
[ US /ˈɛvɝi, ˈɛvɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛvɝi, ˈɛvɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified
every two hours
every third seat -
(used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
every chance of winning
had every hope of success
every person is mortal
every party is welcome
How To Use every In A Sentence
- I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions. The Sun
- Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
- Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating, people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Everyone needed time to take stock after the most prestigious solo race had turned into a demolition derby. Times, Sunday Times