informally

How To Use informally In A Sentence

• Encourage the sponsor to approve deliverables informally (with nods, smiles, and verbal praise); never force sponsors to stand behind their approvals with a formal sign-off.
• The authorities were quietly allowing others to occupy similar parcels—chiefly dam worker families whom Young judged “quiet, good people” and whose occupancy “we have informally suffered ... in order not to be oppressive, unreasonable, or captious in our treatment of good citizens.” Colossus
• Everyone dressed informally in shorts or jeans.
• Within ten minutes I'd replaced my soiled garments with a fine tussore coat, coolie pants, solar helmet, and umbrella, with a handsome morocco toilet case in my back pocket — and if you think that outlandish, let me tell you that armies were a deal more informally attired in my day. Flashman and the Dragon
• In fact, we found that meeting informally for more than one hour per week was a contributing factor to differences between top and mediocre teams. Christianity Today
• The large number of court cases in which the complainant dropped the prosecution is an indication that many cases were settled informally.
• It was not only single-minded attachment to their craft that defined these early hackers but their espousal of an ideology informally called the ‘hacker ethic’.
• He began informally to handle Ted's tax affairs for him.
• It allows one to speak informally with band members and their assistants, and to observe their nonpublic behavior.
• The lavas have been divided into two main series (informally called the lower volcanics and the plateau basalts) based on their stratigraphy, geochemistry and petrography.