in a sense

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.

Example Sentences

“So they needed to pull back. And in a sense they’ve been pulling back ever since.”

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And was it truly possible that the Incorrigibles themselves might be, in a sense, contraband?

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The collapse of Bear Stearns would later be classified as a run on the bank, and in a sense that was correct—other banks were refusing to do business with it, hedge funds were pulling their accounts.

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The word Nuremberg generates two nearly opposite associations: both the Nazi rallies of the 1930s and the postwar trials of 1946 that, in a sense, wrote the concluding chapter for the Nazi period of history.

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Leaving it unmentioned was appropriate in a sense.

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