All 8 Uses of
invariably
in
Franny and Zooey
- His ashes invariably fell into the tub water, either straightway or down one of the letter pages.†
Chpt 2.1
- When I'm in town, I invariably sit talking by the hour with my old friend Yama, the God of Death, and a private phone's a must for our little chats.†
Chpt 2.1
- She almost invariably wore it throughout the apartment during the day.†
Chpt 2.2
- And, oddly or no, Mrs. Glass invariably took this "tribute," when it came, in beautiful stride.†
Chpt 2.2
- There was a Steinway grand piano (invariably kept open), three radios (a 1927 Freshman, a 1932 Stromberg-Carlson, and a 1941 R.C.A.), a twenty-one-inch-screen television set, four table-model phonographs (including a 1920 Victrola, with its speaker still mounted intact, topside), cigarette and magazine tables galore, a regulation-size ping-pong table (mercifully collapsed and stored behind the piano), four comfortable chairs, eight uncomfortable chairs, a twelve-gallon tropical-fish…†
Chpt 2.3
- When Zooey appeared to have difficulty in remembering something, his hesitation invariably interested all his brothers and sisters,
Chpt 2.3 *invariably = always
- In an instant, he turned pale—pale with anxiety for Franny's condition, and pale, presumably, because failure had suddenly filled the room with its invariably sickening smell.†
Chpt 2.3
- The ring of a telephone, any telephone, anywhere, invariably caused Mrs. Glass's lips to tighten a bit.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
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(invariably) never changing; or always the same