How To Use Oftentimes In A Sentence
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I think the real target oftentimes is not the underclass so much as it is college students.
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Nothing was too much trouble for her to do in the way of helping us, and oftentimes tears would bedim her eyes as she looked at me and baby, who always laughed at her; perhaps thinking of her loneliness after we were gone, perhaps of the possibility of our not returning to Tankar, and even of the uncertainty of life in the far interior.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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I can go something like this and we would call that a rhythm superimposing longs and shorts different patterns, patterns that oftentimes repeat.
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He oftentimes is so absurd and insensible of kindnesses done him that he renders evil for good.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The streets were so choked with sellers and shoppers alike that oftentimes only one lane of the street was passable for cars.
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Another and oftentimes fatal mistake made by the nonprofessional is the indiscriminate and reckless use of aconite.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Oftentimes changes are made toward the end of development, and they program workarounds.
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Ivan Booth introduces "What Online Activism Can Learn from Community Organizing":"There's often a disconnect between what's seen as online activism--referred to as "slacktivism," sometimes accurately but oftentimes sloppily, and community-based social change
Michael Silberman: Looking for What Works: Best Online Organizing Reads of 2010
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Oftentimes, it is not the cortisol stimulating properties which are cited for their healing properties but some other biochemical agent such as allantoin in comfrey.
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A man that truly inspired countless Americans to remember that life is not only fragile but oftentimes is short
The Ripple Effect
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Quaintly panda software antivirus throughput are oftentimes in department when the telpher hatpin to qoph anaphrodisia or to finder its dracunculus for that lubricious end.
Rational Review
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So we don't have that many more genes than these tiny, somewhat nondescript, oftentimes considered non-complex, organisms.
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Oftentimes I don't eat dinner, but if I do I'll have a chicken taco, chicken salad or piece of pizza.
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He was friendly, though, and very perceptive and sharp, but oftentimes he let his pen do the talking for him.
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If any foorme or stoole stand in his way, hee oftentimes beateth his browe vpon the same, and often ducking downe with his head, and body, worshippeth the chiefe Image.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Surely smoke becomes a kitchin farre better than a dining chamber, and yet it makes a kitchin also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soyling and infecting them with an vnctuous and oily kind of soote, as hath been found in some great tobacco takers, that after their death, were opened.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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And, two, oftentimes, not only the right front quadrant, which is what we're in right now, but the rear quadrant as well.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
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We've got a tradition in this country of a press that oftentimes is opinionated.
Obama: Fox News Has A Point Of View That 'Is Ultimately Destructive' For America
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Although we normally have what we call spare buttons, you know, just in case we have those wardrobe malfunction moments, oftentimes these buttons remain spares for a very long time.
Blisstree
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DANIEL SPITZ, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: Well, oftentimes, a yellow tint to the eyes indicates jaundice, which is generally associated with some kind of liver condition, maybe cirrhosis of the liver, maybe hepatitis.
CNN Transcript May 17, 2006
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And thus striving for more honour to their wealth, they undo their children, many discontents follow, and oftentimes they ruinate their families.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Here's another one of my beefs with judges - and this is the complaint that lawyers oftentimes get - that we file frivolous lawsuits.
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These men oftentimes made original contributions to scientific endeavor.
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And oftentimes, I talk to those who engage in cyberbullying behaviors, and they genuinely didn't realize the harm that would come from them posting certain information online.
The Rise In Cyberbullying
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Enterprising guides, Caucasian and Chinese, readily catered to the impulse of pleasured fear, oftentimes staging the arrest of a so-called highbinder conveniently in front of a group of sightseers or leading their charges through alleyways replete with employees trained to vanish mysteriously when tourists neared.
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The honesty and openness of her words are oftentimes scary, yet somehow surprisingly liberating.
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Oftentimes, a bit converter is used so a pelham can be used with only one rein.
A Horseman
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She was not frantic; but had such a pretty deliration, that in her ravings there was oftentimes more attractiveness than in many sane persons' conversation.
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Consequently sales for these oftentimes one-woman operations far exceed those at most other conventions.
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Oftentimes we see a boom microphone when reporters are interviewing someone in the crowds.
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A cacophony of loud snaps and steps echoed through the forest, oftentimes followed by the loud blast of a rifle.
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Then when you talk about diabetes, though, it oftentimes translates into being at risk for heart attack and stroke.
CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2008
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Intellectuals do manage to innovate and their innovations are oftentimes not always recombinations of what they have embraced in their education.
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Talmudists, who say that there is so little harm in that manner of searching the truth, that in the anxiety and perplexedness of human wits God oftentimes manifesteth the secret pleasure of his divine will.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Many of these crystals are of great scientific interest because of the remarkable terminations, oftentimes rivalling the lapidist in the number and brilliancy of the facets presented.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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They take multiple routes across a complex educational landscape, oftentimes without a roadmap.
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Indeed our history teaches us that just appointing by label oftentimes surprises more than anything else.
CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008
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The interesting thing is you can get what I call bargain Botox, where it's less expensive, but I think your viewers should be concerned about that because oftentimes, the Botox is diluted.
CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2002
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You know, lawyers oftentimes get criticized about the justice system.
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For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.
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Macedonian is not meant (2Co 9: 4) probably the same as was sent before with Titus (2Co 12: 18); and therefore sent from Ephesus, and probably an Ephesian: all this is true of Trophimus. oftentimes ... in many things -- Join and translate as in the Greek,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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He generally has struck during the week, and oftentimes has struck during the morning rush hour.
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Few observers, however, even in the Tsardom, gaged the strength or foresaw the effects of the anarchist propaganda which was being carried on suasively and perseveringly, oftentimes unwittingly, in the nursery, the school, the church, the university, and with eminent success in the army and the navy.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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“Rot me, my sonnies, then, if I can tell what a man is from all his members put together, oftentimes.”
Under the Greenwood Tree
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Oftentimes the best scenes in movies are done in "reshoots" when the filmmaker has taken a step back and come up with a better idea than he had originally.
Fox Delays Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Until September « FirstShowing.net
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UPDATE: Recall that when cooking, oftentimes cutting against the grain is the right thing to do.
Matthew Yglesias » The Grain
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The unphilosophical man - that is, all of us - is at the mercy of sense impressions and unfortunately, our sense impressions oftentimes fail us.
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Of such as are twice mowed I speak not, sith their later math is not so wholesome for cattle as the first; although in the mouth more pleasant for the time: for thereby they become oftentimes to be rotten, or to increase so fast in blood, that the garget and other diseases do consume many of them before the owners can seek out any remedy, by phlebotomy or otherwise.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Oftentimes someone may become insensate, meaning they don't have any feeling on one side of their body or they have weakness on one side of the body.
CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2009
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The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
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But if the Woman marks that this helps not, and that all things remain in the old posture, then she begins to mump and maunder at her husband; vaunting much of her own fitness, and not a little suspecting her husbands; oftentimes calling him a Fumbler, a dry-boots, and a good man Do-little, &c.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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The great trouble in treating this disease springs from its contagious character; for, no sooner is the animal, oftentimes, once free from the _acari_ than it comes in contact with some object against which it has previously been rubbing, when the
Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
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Therefore it is no wonder if these things which are spoken by our Saviour are not found verbatim in the Jewish pandect; for they are not so much alleged by him to shew that it was their direct design to banish away all reverence and love towards parents, as to show how wicked their traditions were, and into what ungodly consequences they oftentimes fell.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Corporations have the money to snap up the tickets, and oftentimes the regular fan gets left out.
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This involves bantering, oftentimes between two people who good-heartedly tease each other.
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We are also here on the beach seeing a lot of people, as you oftentimes do, here on the ocean front.
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Indeed, as Gould points out, the digital facsimiles of basic human activities "chatting," "befriending," even "poking" oftentimes seem poised to outmode the actual physical acts on which they were originally modeled!
Harvard University Press Publicity Blog :
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We used to spend entire ‘layout weekends’ to get the school paper ready for press, oftentimes spending the entire weekend ingratiating ourselves on the hospitality of Phil and his family.
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Admittedly, military service does change a person and oftentimes for the better.
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The ruffian casual laughs at him, and sings funny and oftentimes libellous songs concerning him as he breaks stones or picks oakum.
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Secondly, oftentimes when I boot up my PC, the monitor will remain completely blank.
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So not only are we going after terror-sponsoring states, we've also worked aggressively to take down the financial networks that support them, to take away their logistical support, which oftentimes is found buried in otherwise legitimate organizations, non-governmental and charitable organizations.
14 Important Science Questions
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Hauing paid the custome, it behoueth to haue a quittance or cocket sealed and firmed with the customers hand, in confirmation of the dispatch and clearing, and before departure thence, to cause the sayd customer to cause search to be made, to the end that at the voiages returne there be no cauilation made, as it oftentimes happeneth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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In psychotheism it appears as _devilism_ in obedience to a well-known law of comparative theology, viz, that the gods of a lower and superseded stage of culture oftentimes become the devils of a higher stage.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
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But he did say they happen all the time, and oftentimes they add this chemical called mercaptan so that you can actually detect and smell the natural gas because normally you can't.
CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2007
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She clowned around a little bit, which is really what oftentimes goes on in these sessions.
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Oftentimes the denudation of whole estates followed the death of the landowner.
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Technology is all fine and well, but oftentimes we are reminded of the flawed human element which created it in the first place.
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By the time two years had passed, she learnt to disregard their noise, and oftentimes slept through it.
GWENDOLEN
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It's funny how life can oftentimes be like a pestilent 15-year-old.
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The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
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And oftentimes, we hear the term stop and frisk, and over the last few years, the terms have just become as if this is one action that occurs every time a police officer engages a citizen.
News
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In the meantime, Warde argues, innocent parties like certain Muslim charities -- oftentimes the only lifelines to resource-challenged communities -- become suspects and victims of sanctions.
Allison Kilkenny: The War Against Iran Begins
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The poets have donated what ever amount they can afford, oftentimes coming from minimum wage paychecks in truly selfless gestures.
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Oftentimes, Drew just couldn't be bothered with the daily humdrum of people buzzing along in her life, (like a hive of visionless bees).
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They come to see markets, then oftentimes spend more money in local shops.
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And he abode three or foure dayes at the sayd breach, continuing since it was made, vnto the end, fighting with his enemies euery day in great perill of his body: for oftentimes hee put himselfe further in the prease then needed for the danger of his person, but he did it for to hearten and strengthen the courage of his people, being so well willing to defend and die for the faith.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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And oftentimes in their dinnerless despair hugely gluttonized, and would fain have grown fat, by reflecting upon the magnificence of their genealogies.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
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Wearing wool uniforms and carrying haversacks and rifles that can weigh up to 30 pounds, they will march for miles under an oftentimes blazing summer sun.
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Difeafed nature oftentimes breaks forth In ftrange. eruptions: oft the teeming earth Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and ytlCd By the imprifoning of unruly wind Within her womb •, which, for enlargement ftriving,
The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes
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While it can be difficult to spot a gasbag before they get started, oftentimes you can pick up on subtle clues.
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Leiber's edgy narrative throughout this story of dark eroticism is very descriptive, oftentimes lingering (seemingly) too long on Ryker's point of view, making the reader wonder when he will get on with the story.
REVIEW: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories edited by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan
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How about the fact that it's also oftentimes selection of music that music fans and just isn't offered by any of the RIAA's so-called "embracement" projects or partnerships?
ZeroPaid.com
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The Company asserts this is hardly the case; it is a wonderfully light, oftentimes slow-burning film of little depth but terrific artistic beauty.
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Oftentimes, though, the person being inoculated would contract the disease and suffer its consequences.
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As a designer used to handling tangible products such as the ever reliable crayons, computer technology is oftentimes scary and heart palpitating.
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She had no conception of any destiny for a girl but that of marriage, and never tired of asking about "American girls," whom I described as oftentimes living and dying unmarried.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
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Oftentimes lean-tos are rented only for gear storage and/or cooking in inclement weather.
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Oftentimes, the only thing binding these teapots together is the fact that they each have a handle, spout and lid.
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Finally it breaks at one or more spots, and there exudes from the opening or openings a purulent and oftentimes sanious discharge, which coagulates about each fistula after the manner of ordinary synovia.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Oftentimes I see that players in form slumps really are just forgetting about doing the basics that they're supposed to be doing.
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The dish, a popular item on trattoria menus and at family meals, consists of a thick, full-bodied ragu, oftentimes made with meat.
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It was free flowing, oftentimes amusing, and almost like talking to a friend; very pleasant in all respects.
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He has now visited over 20 dialysis clinics, all made possible because he dialyses in his motor home, oftentimes while demonstrating how easy the process is to interested patients.
Undefined
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Given students' economic marginality and the fact that many of them have family obligations, their ability to maintain matriculation is oftentimes jeopardized.
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We grew up together and I knew him to be a smart, funny and outgoing guy - though oftentimes very troubled, with a streak of mischievousness.
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Even on group activities, he oftentimes found himself alone without quite knowing how.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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His oftentimes messy and disorganized decision-making process has been widely publicized, further eroding any appearance of strong decisive leadership.
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The eyes open and so forth, and the person becomes aware of being completely paralysed, and oftentimes it will happen as if elements of dream mentation will intrude into wakefulness, these are the hypnopopic hallucinations.
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There is oftentimes an intense desire for a fresh start from a victim of disease who comes off of it, even for short periods of remission.
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Oftentimes you'll have a tiny handful of journalists there too - but only ones from the highest echelon of the elect.
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Oftentimes we repress our motives to such an extent - for reasons of efficiency, self-protection, or otherwise - that they become completely invisible to us.
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The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.
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That is what they call buckshot -- called buckshot, because, oftentimes, it's used to shoot bucks.
CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006
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I think he distorts fact, and oftentimes his distortions are believed by a lot of people that ought to take another look.
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Usually the sexual union has already occurred, and oftentimes cohabitation, with its disappointments and indignities, is in full swing.
The Wedding Merchants
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Oftentimes, the only thing binding these teapots together is the fact that they each have a handle, spout and lid.
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Oftentimes, achieving a major goal eludes us because we want to make huge leaps from reality to the dream without making our lives congruent with the main goal we set for ourselves.
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She used the word obliterate, which kind of goes into, you know, words that oftentimes people use, nuke and stuff.
CNN Transcript May 4, 2008
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This also thou must consider, that many things there be, which oftentimes unsensibly trouble and vex thee, as not armed against them with patience, because they go not ordinarily under the name of pains, which in very deed are of the same nature as pain; as to slumber unquietly, to suffer heat, to want appetite: when therefore any of these things make thee discontented, check thyself with these words: Now hath pain given thee the foil; thy courage hath failed thee.
Meditations
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Or maybe it's just seeing familiar, oftentimes comedic actors with bushy beards, payot and large fedoras.
Cinematical
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Oftentimes, achieving a major goal eludes us because we want to make huge leaps from reality to the dream without making our lives congruent with the main goal we set for ourselves.
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Gathered data is oftentimes counter-intuitive and in so many instances, the janitor may actually be able to "intuit" more accurately how to successfully launch a product than a marketing department.
Laura Day: How to Rule the World from your Couch
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In the workplace, for example, there oftentimes are no accommodations for people who have the responsibilities of parenthood.
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If you repigment, oftentimes they give a medication.
CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007
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And first, the meaning of a word oftentimes is gradually narrowed.
English Past and Present
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Oftentimes, I was amazed at his strength as he carried metal trays heavily laden with a dozen or more full 2 litre milk bottles.
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Ivan Booth introduces "What Online Activism Can Learn from Community Organizing": "There's often a disconnect between what's seen as online activism--referred to as "slacktivism," sometimes accurately but oftentimes sloppily, and community-based social change
Michael Silberman: Looking for What Works: Best Online Organizing Reads of 2010
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Oftentimes the most successful developments are those that evolve slowly.
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Oftentimes the stressful pace of life in the modern world and the seemingly constant acceleration of change can drive the feeling life of the Pluto-Moon over the brink.
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This trajectory was clear, but complex visual practices oftentimes were subsumed by conceptual discussions or uncritical formal analyses.
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Quaintly panda software antivirus throughput are oftentimes in department when the telpher hatpin to qoph anaphrodisia or to finder its dracunculus for that lubricious end.
Rational Review
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Dryden had within him a principle of continuity which was not satisfied without lingering upon his own thoughts, brooding over them, and oftentimes pursuing them through their unlinkings with the _sequaciousness_ (pardon
Famous Reviews
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Indeed he had cunning enough to give me, undesignedly, a piece of instruction which taught me this caution; for he had said in conversation once, ‘That if a man could not make a woman in courtship own herself pleased with him, it was as much and oftentimes more to his purpose to make her angry with him.’
Clarissa Harlowe
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I say "veracious" advisedly, as oftentimes, after having seen something extra strong in the Ananias-Sapphira-Munchausen-Gulliver-de-Rougemont epistolary line from some gentleman in khaki to the old folks at home, in a London or provincial paper, I feel that I must give up letter writing altogether, as by now those at home must have discovered that such effusions are often seven-eighths lies, and the remaining one-eighth truth, simply because the scribe's powers of invention have failed him, owing to the great strain.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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What tends to happen oftentimes in commodity money systems is that states began to monopolize the production of the commodity money.
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Oftentimes, one partner may envision selling the house, moving out of state, or relocating to a warm climate.
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In an oftentimes dull political world, his ability and feistiness come through.
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He had an inclination to glory, but it was tempered more with rashness and fury than with moderation and counsell: his liberalities were without discretion, measure, or distinction, immoveable oftentimes in his purposes, but that was rather an ill-grounded obstinacy than constancie, and that which many call bountie deserved more reasonably in his the name of coldnesse and slacknesse of spirit. "[
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
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Or else it may be full of wind, or a sulphureous innate fire, as our meteorologists inform us, which sometimes breaking out, causeth those horrible earthquakes, which are so frequent in these days in Japan, China, and oftentimes swallow up whole cities.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I think when a movement happens, oftentimes it usually doesn't come down to one person.
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The executive areas of the brain, which are responsible for your, oftentimes, inattention to detail.
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Cultural dissonance oftentimes manifests itself in different lifestyles and preferences.
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In Pandosto, Bellaria's courteous entertainment of Egistus extends to ‘oftentimes coming herself into his bed chamber to see that nothing should be amiss to mislike him’.
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While a majority of hunters prefer to hunt in a group for the experience and camaraderie, many choose to hunt alone, and oftentimes in remote areas.
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My logical brain oftentimes has a hard time accepting that, thus such contrivances (which suit the author in the storytelling but not me with immersion) tend to break the mood.
REVIEW: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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Southern urban workingmen, far less organized or numerous, nonetheless went to battle, oftentimes to defend states' rights, or (some have argued) to prevent the use of slaves in industry.
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And any number of them were in Northwest Washington, which oftentimes translates to near Rock Creek Park.
CNN Transcript May 22, 2002
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For a man to be disorderly in a civil state, yea, oftentimes through turbulency to break the peace, is nothing to an underhand combination with some formidable enemy for the utter subversion of it.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Again, that predictive kind of smarty pants sort of attitude oftentimes that journalists bring to it.
CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2009
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We received over 100 entries and they were inspired and oftentimes breathtaking in elegance and lunacy.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Vote for WU’s Most Hilarious Analogy
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Yet this I must say, that the infusion of spiritual light into the mind, which is the foundation of all gifts, as hath been proved, being wrought sometimes suddenly or in a short season, the concomitancy of gifts in some good measure is oftentimes sudden, with an appearance of something extraordinary, as might be manifested in instances of several sorts.
Pneumatologia
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Oftentimes, someone may become insensate, meaning they don't have any feeling on one side of their body or they have weakness on one side of their body.
CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2009
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Oftentimes this involves using man lifts, which can have trouble maneuvering over curing materials like polyethylene plastic sheets or burlap-bonded plastic coverings.
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One is that oftentimes, there is a condition known as mastitis, which is just an infection of the breast.
CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2002