Sample Sentences for
veritable
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    A veritable thunderstorm of words came crashing down on me again this morning.  (source)
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    A shearing had brought a veritable mountain of gray wool to be washed and bleached and dyed, enough to keep Mercy carding and spinning and weaving for the next twelve months.  (source)
    veritable = used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another thing
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    One moment she is scampering up and down the stairwells—a veritable gadabout, a gadfly, a ne'er-do-well—and the next, she is a young woman of intelligence and refinement.  (source)
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    And Bertha Jorkins, who might have ruined all, proved instead to be a gift beyond my wildest dreams ... for — with a little persuasion — she became a veritable mine of information.  (source)
    veritable = used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another thing
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    But my mom believed I required treatment, so she took me to see my Regular Doctor Jim, who agreed that I was veritably swimming in a paralyzing and totally clinical depression, and that therefore my meds should be adjusted and also I should attend a weekly Support Group.  (source)
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    When spring is mentioned in a story, a poem, or a play, a veritable constellation of associations rises in our imaginative sky: youth, promise, new life, young lambs, children skipping …. on and on.  (source)
    veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
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    Drizzt was the first to go, the agile elf veritably running up the cord.†  (source)
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    The veritable flowers of the Pyrenees.  (source)
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    If once we can produce our perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls "Forces" while denying the existence of "spirits"—then the end of the war will be in sight.†  (source)
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    ...we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.  (source)
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    My comfort was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain.†  (source)
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    Our little hallway group was a veritable United Nations of Cussing.†  (source)
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    At the moment when the heroine was to act the stabbing of her lover, and he was to fall gracefully, the wife veritably stabbed her husband, who fell as death willed.†  (source)
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