How To Use Just In A Sentence

A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.

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Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am.
We love our king, we just don't love the way he abuses our money," a Swazi friend once explained to me. How long can Swaziland resist reform?
He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
I could be wrong but as I recall in Batman Begins Batman 'growled' his lines just a few times but to very strong effect. All of The Dark Knight's Broken Records - Box Office Dominance! « FirstShowing.net
It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
It may be a little early but I was just wondering if you could characterize the impact of the label amendment in terms of the new patient starts in to the new year? SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
When the new student funding system was devised in 2010 the figure was just 28%. Times, Sunday Times
Serial killer plots (or subplots) just plain annoy me. Great Things Come to Those Who Wait : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
It is not just a projection of human motives on to a neutral universe.
He had just received my check and was apoplectic with rage, declaring he never wanted to see or have anything to do with ‘that woman’ - meaning me - again.
demands for rectification of terrible injustices
The "lawmen" in the Justice Department, etc, who are doing the hard work to bring these Wall Street criminals to the courthouse will be compromised. Stephen Gyllenhaal: Goldman and Sachs and Lipstick and Rouge
Just the other day, I was almost run over by a two-wheeling speed demon who felt that a four-way stop applied to everyone but him and his Schwinn. Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On
He adjusts the focus of the Carl Zeiss 120 mm macro lens, which allows him to work very close up.
The area of domination and control that affected me the longest isn't limited to just my small church. Christianity Today
Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
The example of the first fighter aces fixed itself in the imaginations of a generation being born just as they had met their deaths. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.
Most mums-to-be want to look just as nice as they did before they became pregnant.
It wasn't just the obvious favouritism towards their own daughter that ticked him off either, that wasn't even the beginning of it.
So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
I had just popped out for a breath of fresh air,and missed your telephone call.
The features in this home are just too many to mention such as coffered ceilings, multi-light windows, heavy door and window casings, and other elements that give this home great charm. WN.com - Business News
Sometimes I go through spells when I just draw, when I just write, when I just paint.
So if you take it and call it your own, you're just uncreative and have no imagination.
Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story. Peter Orszag's Move From The White House To Citigroup Should Definitely Trouble You
Using wire transmission, with long service life, and not sticky paste, silk or nylon thread transmission can be equipped with water-hao to justice system.
When the toughest of the problems strike me, I just remind myself that God is on my side. RVM
Consequently many penalties are cleared just before the finish. Times, Sunday Times
Ideas for friends to run a restaurant seem like wishful thinking but they may just work. The Sun
CALLS for firefighters to move obese people are up by a third in just three years. The Sun
There were just a hundred of them there.
The Etihad chief has taken charge of just two friendlies and still does not have all his squad together. The Sun
The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
For no apparently good reason, she told me that she hates the word "coochie" just as much as she hates the word cunt, maybe more. Drbigbeef Diary Entry
That's why I contend, with just a soupçon of exaggeration, that Britain's big choice will be made on May 29.
And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
I had ductal carcinoma in situ in the left breast and the right, just, atypia which are cells that you want to keep an eye on. CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2006
The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
This concept of embodiment doesn't apply just to times of exertion, of course.
He saluted and adjusted his large round wire rimmed glasses.
I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up. Times, Sunday Times
Turning downriver, she kept the revs low, Night Watch just noodling along at a crawl. CORMORANT
Their accusations of corruption are hypocritical - they have been just as corrupt themselves.
Mickey-boy, 'if the Joy Lady is so anxious to get the baby, and sew its clothes herself, why I'll just let her,' so I did _let_ her, but it took some time to make them, so I had to wait to bring it 'til tonight. Michael O'Halloran
Is winter finally over, or is this just a sneak preview?
Just before Chiswick Bridge he suddenly wrenched the wheel round to the right. Times, Sunday Times
A fellow council worker, who had just got out of the vehicle and was standing close at the time of the impact, suffered serious injuries.
We are not going to talk about ifs and buts, like I say, just wait for the procedure to take its place and then at the end of that, if no one has made the decision for us, we'll have to make the decision.
The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
For a start, when you drive through the gate, instead of just driving through just a field of grass, you actually drive through copses of trees and little forests.
One of these gentlemen just happens to be the madwoman's father, a charming chap who seems unfazed by most things in this day and age.
Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round. USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
The countless mini-roundabouts popping up where there just simply isn't room for a roundabout is another danger, increasing the number of small shunts & bumps.
The dinner was being hosted by a fledgling company he had set up just months before. Times, Sunday Times
If you're not just in love but willing to go through the highs and lows because of that love, then I want people to know they're not alone.
Do they have to change their diet, is there a dietary intervention as well to get that sort of weight loss, or do they just continue as before?
Peyton Manning will then 'spank' Drew Brees: Now if they just made half-and-half jerseys... Sad Week
To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
It is not just getting used to the layout of new streets and kitchen and neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes things happen that are just out of your control.
No, just stylish, insists G.O.D. founder and chief executive Douglas Young.
Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
At the time we weren't selling textbooks, just wholesaling them out to textbook dealers.
I just can't image what would have taken them all away at once with no word.
The trouble is getting tense often just makes matters worse. The Sun
The healthy but lazy who claim incapacity benefit are just as morally bankrupt as those benefiting from offshore tax havens. Times, Sunday Times
The used-car business in the city has just gone upmarket.
The mite is just visible to the naked eye.
But true-life tales of memory loss don't offer just drama - they also shed light on the mysteries of identity and personality.
Silanes and siloxanes are actually just two variations on the same chemical theme.
If we don't save the rich people today they might be extinct tomorrow just like the dinosaurs. * shedding a fake tear for the plight of the rich* knixphan Says: Think Progress
Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
After just the right wait, they arrived, each accompanied by a side dish of steamed vegetables.
The portrait, reputed to be the most widely reproduced photograph in the world, has come to symbolize not just the ideals of the Cuban revolution but of revolution in general.
The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
Mustard, salt, picholine olives and super-thin rye toasts give the house-cured gravlax just the right accents. SFGate: Top News Stories
The only use he serves as a coach is that his nose just about crosses the touchline when he's sat in the dugout, so there's every chance he'll be able to trip up a tricky winger with his conk.
Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis
Just like playing poker, it's all about bluffing. The Sun
I just think it really spreads the word for our designs.
It was not just established states that were eager narrowly to define the right of self-determination as a right end colonial status.
The jobs are ideal for stay-at-home parents as you can earn from 150 per week working just three hours a day. The Sun
And it's weird, no one really gets angry at me for piking ... they just seem to look down on me, if you get what I mean. Stupid
The criticisms of the law, and the absence of any satisfactory rationale justifies this course.
The filler is on top of the box on a small square plate just in front of the hand brake drum.
The new film just seems to be skirting round things; it hasn't been brave enough.
It seems the awful practice of hazing is not just limited to college sororities and fraternities.
They are popular with scuba divers but you can just swim or snorkel. The Sun
I wasn't jangly or nervy, hit a good putt, just a misread. Times, Sunday Times
He came back to one of my classes and talked about all this stuff like how if you don't know what you're doing, you can just get sliced in half trying to hop the trains.
But his police career ended in a welter of accusations that in order to obtain results, he hadn't just bent the rules, he'd twisted them out of shape.
Do you think Hillary wants to sit by and watch McCain appoint Supreme Court Justices, block universal health care, send more money to Iraq in exchange for body bags? McCain raises $21.5 million in May
The forest all along the mountain curve was spotted with dots of red, yellow, purple and gold, trees just beginning to turn with the season.
The sweet peas just now started blooming, that is so late, even though they were planted mid February. Wordless June Blooms « Fairegarden
From five bars a day to just two. BE YOUR BEST: How Anyone can become Fit, Healthy and Confident
Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.
Instead, go to the departure area of the airport and pick up a taxi that has just dropped somebody. Times, Sunday Times
He did not look up, but he felt, he just _felt_, all the eyes of all the little meadow people and forest folk burning right into him. Mother West Wind's Children
Yes | No | Report from TheEasternShore ... wrote 1 year 1 week ago no, just drag them into the middle if it is iced over then just wait until the pond unfreezes I have started a new pond. I have alot of old christmass trees.
Whether Mr. Johnson was speaking metaphorically or just plain sillily, the fact he was expressing concern over adding many US military personnel to a small island displays concern for the overall impact on the Guamites … Guamians … Guamicans, hell just what does one call a resident of Guam? Think Progress » Rep. Johnson worries that the island of Guam will ‘tip over and capsize’ if U.S. troops relocate there.
But that is just a measure of his new-found fame. The Sun
Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
There is grassland on the natural brae of Royal Garden, yellow and green, fighting with the autumn. In this grassland, an alley wanders forward, just like the traces from a big snake' creeping.
Scratching doesn't have to be confined to just hip-hop tracks.
In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
Tracking sports 'online cacophony is tricky enough when just focusing on league websites. NBC's Michaels making Olympic Games comeback
They probably can't bleep a specific word on the fly so the sound would just disappear for a period.
In the Hayekian view justice is solely to do with the rules of the game.
Just because the clothes are less formal, that doesn't mean you skip regular clothing maintenance like ironing and washing.
I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring.
The "freedom to learn" has become just another one of the government's empty slogans.
These are the books written by wine enthusiasts who write them just because they can write. The Times Literary Supplement
When they relate poetry to music, they invite harsh criticism on two fronts, not just one.
Just as Peter Crouch the binman may find his lanky frame considerably less alluring to the opposite sex. Archive 2009-07-01
Since Kashmir was (and is) a Muslim majority territory, Pakistan felt justified in seeing Pushtun warlords charge in from the north-west of Pakistan, late in 1947, to seize control of Kashmir.
But although there was a scare with my first sample being clear, as we'd only just arrived, my second proved that I, along with the entire Sunday Herald table, was completely ratted and therefore allowed to keep the trophy.
Add your stick or card of choice and it shows up in the mobile app, just as if you'd slotted it into a computer. Times, Sunday Times
Just remember the poor little critters the next time you're caught out without a brolly! The Sun
What’s not up for debate is that solifugids are just plain cool. Smithsonian Mag
Just outside the pub, in Quartz Street, is The Braai & Meat, a small outdoor restaurant, with happy customers tucking into pap and braaied meat.
Condensed soups are pretty much just cans of flavour.
Talking about the investment in the new main stand, the increased capacity, and the scope for making money rather than just haemorrhaging it, he insisted his family are in it for the long haul.
In this crucible I have mixed together just one ounce of sugar and one and one-eighth ounces of solidified oxygen, solidified by the force of chemical affinity and bound up in a white salt called chlorate of potash. Religion and Chemistry
All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing - the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
Among the refinements are five-way adjustable shocks, stiffer springs and a beefier antiroll bar lacing the rear end. A Boss on the Road With a Peon's Interior
However, it's hard to be seriously annoyed when you have a cat snuggling you and giving you gentle licks, as mine just did.
I am just like a machine walking, with no other feeling. Times, Sunday Times
King Richard, as a just guerdon for all his fascinorous actions and horrible murders, was slain in the field.
But he has managed just one minute this season since recovering from a persistent abdominal injury. The Sun
The manufacturers just don't strive to achieve a mirror-like polish nowadays.
So far is he from admitting the possibility of any dissiliency between the Divine will and absolute right, that he turns the tables on his opponents, and classes among Atheists those of his contemporaries who maintain that God can command what is contrary to the intrinsic right; that He has no inclination to the good of his creatures; that He can justly doom an innocent being to eternal torments; or that whatever God wills is just because He wills it. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
Bobileff and crew fettled and cajoled and fairly bullwhipped the old beast back together, then fired her up and into a transporter just hours before the show.
We just managed to win,[Sentence dictionary] but it was a close thing.
There is a “landscape” of many possible lower-dimensional vacua, just like in string theory. Making Extra Dimensions Disappear
Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
He's got a good ability to adapt and adjust. Times, Sunday Times
None of them were bleeding, so she fetched a washcloth and bathed them, one by one, just to be sure there wasn't any dirt in the wounds. GALILEE
But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
In Iowa, he didn't just win over the Democrats, the college-educated over $55K under 60 crowd, he won overjust about everybody that wasn't a die-hard Republican. Hillary's NH Lead In Suffolk Tracking Poll Cut By Nearly Half
I believe that we will be judged on this record and not by unkind and unjustified personal remarks in the press.
Even the sight of a gibbet, if it assured him that one robber was safely disposed of by justice, never failed to remind him how many remained still unhanged. Rob Roy
But I think the book, or even the website should give a total account of the history of star trek and just say if historical events are cloudy this happened but it wasn't a major item in star trek loure and it just kind of made the second page. Blogger News Network
To a large extent the life you have depends on who your parents were; it's just the luck of the biological draw.
The wandering wraiths, addicts and drunks that you see around town didn't just come about out of the blue - they were produced by the education system.
Or should I just accept the fact that fate has dealt me a card from the bottom of the deck and move on?
Your fellow potential jurors will be chosen at random from the pool available, and then slimmed down to just 12 in court, again at random.
I won't tire you with a long visit. I just wanted to stop in and see how you were doing.
But this is not to suggest that Hebb's influence was just his postulates related to synaptic change.
His two motors, a used 7.5 horsepower and a 3.5 horsepower, cost just $25 apiece.
If I'm trying to find a contact name and I type "Kab" that means I'm looking for someone whose name starts with or includes those letters; don't autocorrect it to "tab" just because I have someone whose name does include that. Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Incredible S smartphones – review
Just ahead, the Democratic ticket is official, and the game is underway.
But they escaped the relegation trapdoor by just one point as Leicester were held at Stoke. The Sun
My birthday wishes to you are the warmest.May all the plans you are making work out just right for you and may life always bring the best things your way.
Just look at that, now; you too are getting obstinate and huffish. The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
The majority reasoning was most clearly expressed by Justice Hayne.
You are also advised to carry some rainwear, just in case.
*shuffle, dig dig* I digs throo teh blankees an finds wun just for yoo. Can I come live wiv u? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
This is just a guess, mind. Times, Sunday Times
Go into just about every boulangerie in France nowadays and a standard baguette costs 80 centimes.
Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator. Pope on the Essential Elements of Priestly Ministry
Could you just sing the tune of the hymn rather than the hundred and fifty-seven little twiddly bits?
Revolutionary applications of BEC in lithography, nanotechnology and holography appear to be just round the corner. The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics - Information for the Public
First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings.
Daniel just drones on about American policy.
As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
There's no wit here, just slapstick comedy. Times, Sunday Times
They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating — alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical. Copy What You Like
By then though, it was too late and the story had been twisted so far out of recognition that the forced references to things like Namek, Oozaru, and Roshi's pervertedness just seemed out of place and stupid. Anime Nano!
There was to be an incredibly customisable interface, not just skins, but how it all worked, so more experienced users would have more functionality available.
It's great that she was able to tie up Super Smize's narrative, since half of these girls would have been so confused if they just encountered her in plainclothes without an explanation. Taking the boot off
Just as the new convert to Islam sees the work of God in all things, the Marxist neophyte is tempted to understand all human activity through the lens of the base/superstructure model.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Blaise Pascal
As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
What became clear was just how many brides found it disheartening. The Sun
No studies have been done on humans about the cancer link just yet. The Sun
Man, these people are just too stupid to be trusted with appointments - and too timorous to deserve to a university position from which to dribble out the contents of their weak little minds.
Mitch: My buddy just won belching contest.
Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
The instructor, a short, stocky, ex–Marine sergeant wearing black-rimmed glasses, navy pants, and a short-sleeved maroon shirt that had his name embroidered above the front pocket, was just what I would have expected. Muffins and Mayhem
Using frequency in speed adjustment to achieve flexibility, asmoothniess and low noise level in speed adjusting.

How To Use Just In A Sentence

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