Example Sentences

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The idea is that his storehouse of knowledge, plus the other storehouses of knowledge, will keep the nerve endings from revolting deleteriously.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

But what’s happening to him is making people feel wary at work; that their behavior might be misconstrued, their words misunderstood, their history deleteriously revisited.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

How could Buffett and company, in this fun-starved beach party, so deleteriously have taken their eye off the ball?

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2018

He got a virus from leucemic mice, which affected other mice deleteriously.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is in this manner, in my belief, that temperature deleteriously operates upon human conduct.

From Crime and Its Causes by Morrison, William Douglas