Example Sentences

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There's swell, wind, currents, equipment, hunger, and thirst all to consider elementarily; it could have been months and months.

From Time Magazine Archive

England and the United States of America, said Stalin, possess elementarily democratic liberties.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter I have almost abandoned in despair after nearly finishing it; I find so much that cannot be explained elementarily, or anything near it.

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary

I mean the system of intersectional mouldings, which, on account of its great importance, and for the sake of the general reader, I may, perhaps, be pardoned for explaining elementarily.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

The Queen is not conceited; she is aware there are many things she cannot understand, and she likes to have them explained to her elementarily, not at length and in detail, but shortly and clearly.

From Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 by Anonymous