Sample sentences for NOTWITHSTANDING

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Definition

in spite of; or in spite of the thing mentioned
(Used to connect contrasting ideas. Other synonyms could include words and phrases such as nevertheless, nonetheless, all the same, still, and however.)

Notwithstanding other provisions of this contract, employee may be fired immediately if there is any material misrepresentation on employee's resume or job application.

notwithstanding = in spite of (used to connect contrasting ideas)

(In this case, even if other parts of the contract protect the employee from being fired without notice, the employee can be fired immediately for these reasons. The other parts of the contract do not withstand this part.)

My fear notwithstanding, I want to try parachuting from an airplane.

notwithstanding = in spite of the thing mentioned (In this case, my fear. My fear does not withstand my desire to try parachuting. My desire is stronger than my fear.) (used to connect contrasting ideas)

Notwithstanding my fear, I want to try parachuting from an airplane.

notwithstanding = in spite of (used to connect contrasting ideas)

Linton would have another, and after that another, notwithstanding my strenuous objections;
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

notwithstanding = in spite of (In this case, my strenuous objections did not keep him from drinking) (used to connect contrasting ideas)

[After Scrooge was rude] His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

notwithstanding = despite what just happened

[M]y mother adopted into our family, notwithstanding our poverty, an orphan boy, to whom afterward we gave the name of James B. Washington.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

notwithstanding = despite

Sometimes, notwithstanding the cold, a couple came on to the balcony and stood for a moment to get some fresh air; and Philip, imagining that they were in love with one another, turned away and limped along the street with a heavy hurt.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage

notwithstanding = despite

Notwithstanding the blast that had rocked the palace, the bodies splayed in all manner of death on the tables and floor, the South Dining Room was a scene of celebration.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

notwithstanding = in spite of

ANTONIO: I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.
PORTIA: Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding.
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

notwithstanding = despite what was just said

Cassio:
Iago hath direction what to do;
But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye
Will I look to't.
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

notwithstanding = despite what was just said

That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and glosses, being rather new-dyed than stain'd with salt water.
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest

notwithstanding = despite what was just said

Oberon: [After explaining that they are spirits that are not troubled by sunlight]: But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay: We may effect this business yet ere day.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream

notwithstanding = despite what was just said

Notwithstanding terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more) and the its hissing vigor of its descent, sufficient to sunder these very walls of iron, still the fraying of my robe would be all that, for several minutes, it would accomplish.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

notwithstanding = despite

""You are not looking at it," said Scrooge.
"But I see it," said the Ghost, "notwithstanding."
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

notwithstanding = in spite of that

It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

notwithstanding = in spite of

At the bottom of his heart, notwithstanding everything, he felt that a strange, desperate thirst for that vile woman would always linger.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
He simply could not do a thing which, notwithstanding all his reason, he felt was horrible.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
The awful fear seized him that his uncle, notwithstanding his promises, might leave everything he had to the parish or the church.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Notwithstanding the war there was evidently much difficulty in finding work, for when Philip went to the shop many men were waiting already.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
The air was musty; and the room, notwithstanding Philip's tidying up, had the bedraggled look which seemed to accompany Cronshaw wherever he went.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage

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