sectional
adjective
pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional.
sectionally
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a word derived from
sectional.
Example Sentences
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Public opinion has a more direct, a more comprehensive, a more efficient organ for its utterance, than a body of men sectionally chosen.
From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The separate threads of the narrative must be treated separately, and yet the subject not be dealt with sectionally, for that is not the way in which the things occurred.
From Friends in Council — First Series by Sir Arthur Helps
The war, for the time, parted the Nation sectionally.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
Jefferson was thinking nationally and not sectionally; he was ready for the great rôle he was about to assume.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
Him and me got as thick personally as the Emperor of Russia and the dove of peace, but sectionally we didn't amalgamate.
From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
