How To Use strictly speaking In A Sentence
- But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- Strictly speaking, a grassplot should be all grass, grass and a little white clover. Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
- Strictly speaking, the term elementary as applied to most of the particles in the nucleus is inaccurate, for scientists now believe that all the particles except electrons are made of still more elementary particles called quarks. Elementary particles
- The passacaglia, strictly speaking, pits variations over a ground bass, although most composers from Brahms on, shift the bass material around to all the voices, which Lees does as well.
- Strictly speaking, it means commonplace, undistinguished, but has come to mean pertaining to the people.
- The word that lurks in the criticism of Webster et al is 'bibliolatry', but strictly speaking that is not something which orthodox believers have been guilty of. Exiled Preacher
- These have also been coded as zero to denote missing data, though strictly speaking their failure to reply is more indicative of the question not being applicable to them.
- But the property rights system described here is not, strictly speaking, a commons.
- His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature. Archive 2008-02-10
- Where there is such an approved standard it is, strictly speaking not mandatory for the manufacturer to comply with it.
