all the
Even, more so, as in Painting the room white will make it all the lighter, or They liked her all the better for not pretending, or You don't care for dessert? Good, all the more for us. Used to underscore a comparison, this idiom was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It (1:2): “All the better; we shall be the more marketable.” [Late 1500s] For a synonym, see so much the.
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How to use all the in a sentence
But once EV-68 fizzles out, surely something new will fill its place in the rabid 24-hour all-crisis-all-the-time news cycle.
Midwest's 'Mystery Virus' Is Scary but Not Deadly | Kent Sepkowitz | September 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe death carried an all-the-more-powerful message because Julius Caesar was famously merciful to defeated enemies.
Still there was something endearing about his total, damn-all-the-evidence conviction.
Not from this class, however, do your all-the-year-round bathers come.
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice DaviesAnd then Santa Barbara, peerless among all-the-year-round resorts.
The Road of a Thousand Wonders | Passenger Dept. Southern Pacific Co
It has durable imitation leather covering, metal parts are nickeled and it offers the daylight-all-the-way feature of the Kodaks.
Kodaks and Kodak Supplies, 1914 | Canadian Kodak CompanySeveral recreation centers, all-the-year-round playgrounds, have been added since then.
What eight million women want | Rheta Childe DorrPractice alone can make perfect, and experience is the more necessary because the cinematograph is an all-the-year-round machine.
Practical Cinematography and Its Applications | Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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