in a sense

Idioms  

1. Also, in some sense. Sort of, in some ways but not others. For example, In a sense our schools are the best in the state, but the test scores don't always show that, or In some sense I agree with you, but not entirely. [Late 1500s] Also see in a way.

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Example Sentences

"That's the time period that we are seeing, when small worlds are being cratered with these violent collisions or even being destroyed and reassembled into different objects. It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old."

From Science Daily

In a sense, today feels like the day former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died in 2013, with people struggling to comprehend what has happened.

From BBC

In a sense, that much is admirable from Slot but he needs to realise sooner rather than later that his side cannot carry on performing the same way.

From BBC

In a sense, Kirk has adopted a strategy used by pianists like Nat King Cole; when Cole plays the melody, or the “head” as musicians call it, he often phrases orchestrally, in rich block chords.

From The Wall Street Journal

All are, in a sense, in their element.

From The Wall Street Journal