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  • Like this, from the second letter I received: When I think of you and me and what we shared, I know it would be easy for others to dismiss our time together as simply a by-product of the days and nights spent by the sea, a "fling" that, in the long run, would mean absolutely nothing.†   (source)
  • Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.†   (source)
  • We in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic world have a fair chunk of mythology invested in rain and its most major by-product.†   (source)
  • "I think if we mix it with sugar and add heat we'll get three parts oxygen and two parts carbon dioxide along with some other byproducts.†   (source)
  • The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.†   (source)
  • It also left IBP with a great deal of leftover bones, blood, and scraps of meat that could be rendered into profitable byproducts such as dog food.†   (source)
  • Nyodene D. is a whole bunch of things thrown together that are byproducts of the manufacture of insecticide.†   (source)
  • I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy.†   (source)
  • It was its rational byproduct that soon overshadowed it and almost everything else in the field of mathematics.†   (source)
  • Science, research, and technology are all by-products of our philosophical relection.†   (source)
  • Farmer was hoping for real change in Haiti, and meanwhile hating what he called "the tumble," the turmoil and bloodshed and their inevitable by-product, the worsening of Haiti's already wretched public health.†   (source)
  • As Nasuada digested the implications, she realized that Elva's unsettling aspect was a by-product of the suffering that she had been exposed to.†   (source)
  • There are likely to be other valuable minerals as by-products in a nickel mine.†   (source)
  • There were those who said that it was just a horrible accident, an inevitable by-product of the fact that police officers sometimes have to make life-or-death decisions in conditions of uncertainty.†   (source)
  • Call finally decided his coolness was just a byproduct of his general vanity and overconfidence.†   (source)
  • She also couldn't walk or even stand, a consequence of nerve damage that is a frequent by-product of fistula.†   (source)
  • "And one benefit of the mining up here is that the skeeters don't seem to like the coal dust and other by-products any more than we do.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of thousands of idle and unexploited minds was the most hazardous and wasteful by-product that every factory made.†   (source)
  • The death and destruction, these are unavoidable by-products of this one, supreme good.†   (source)
  • You were merely a by-product, a side issue that suddenly became immensely important to the authorities.†   (source)
  • Nailing the Section is merely a by-product," Figuerola said.†   (source)
  • One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy.†   (source)
  • His unusual conduct was, I believe, a simple by-product of the deepening atmosphere of malaise and fear.†   (source)
  • The byproduct was I knew my dad would be pleased with what I was doing with my life.†   (source)
  • It was an unimportant by-product of those energies, Jan knew, that he was seeing now.†   (source)
  • It had not always been that way; during their first days together he had scarcely seemed aware of the raw actuality of the experience she had gone through, even though the by-products of that experience—her malnutrition, her anemia, her vanished teeth—had been his constant and devoted concern.†   (source)
  • I challenge the engineers in this audience to devise new techniques for developing cheap, clean, and plentiful energy, and as a byproduct, to control floods.†   (source)
  • They have by-products, take sudden turns in unexpected directions.†   (source)
  • Intelligence is an aimless byproduct except as it serves these basic drives.†   (source)
  • Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble.†   (source)
  • It is packed with dense concentrations of byproduct.†   (source)
  • They want byproducts and trash and scars and side effects.†   (source)
  • The yeast eats the sugars in bread dough and, as a by-product, gives off carbon dioxide.†   (source)
  • All this as a result of a byproduct of insecticide.†   (source)
  • The original stuff kills roaches, the byproducts kill everything left over.†   (source)
  • She could try to dismiss her feelings as temporary, a by-product of other factors in her life.†   (source)
  • Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.†   (source)
  • By-products of dirt and vileness!†   (source)
  • No byproducts.†   (source)
  • Just as Mishka had come to understand the present as the natural by-product of the past, and could see with perfect clarity how it would shape the future, the Count now understood his place in the passage of time.†   (source)
  • Just byproducts.†   (source)
  • When we first encountered Miss Urbanova in the Metropol's lobby in 1923, the haughtiness the Count noted in her bearing was not without foundation, for it was a by-product of her unambiguous celebrity.†   (source)
  • It's one of the by-products of alcohol.†   (source)
  • All those decades, he says, when we thought about weapons all the time and never thought about the dark multiplying byproduct.†   (source)
  • She wanted a man who would treat Kevin the way he should be treated, not simply as the unwanted by-product of someone he desired.†   (source)
  • Vidriera was a glass bottling factory, and salt cake, a by-product of aluminum, was a small but necessary ingredient in glass.†   (source)
  • Actually, the fertilizer had been a by-product of the main business of selling the mud to space-dwelling Tanmind for religious purposes.†   (source)
  • I think that aurora was only a by-product of whatever energies are being released up there on the frontier of space.†   (source)
  • Hercule Poirot once taught me in a very dramatic manner that romance can be a by-product of crime.†   (source)
  • There's just a child that has to be born, the byproduct of good nights in Milan.†   (source)
  • Except as a benefit to its witnesses, since we human creatures have many reasons to believe there's advantage and profit for someone in everything, even in the worst muds, wastes, and poison by-products; and a charm of chemical medicine or industry is how there are endless uses in cinders, slag, bone, and manure.†   (source)
  • Feelings like these are the normal by-products of imperialism; ask any Anglo-Indian official, if you can catch him off duty.†   (source)
  • It was in the killing department that the packers had been left most in the lurch, and precisely here that they could least afford it; the smoking and canning and salting of meat might wait, and all the by-products might be wasted—but fresh meats must be had, or the restaurants and hotels and brownstone houses would feel the pinch, and then "public opinion" would take a startling turn.†   (source)
  • Would she ever receive the justice that is mercy—the justice for by-products that the world is too busy to bestow?†   (source)
  • Now this spiritually unmarried man hasn't direct power, for unfortunately the spiritually married man, as a by-product of his money chase, has garnered in the great newspaper, the popular magazine, the influential weekly—so that Mrs. Newspaper, Mrs. Magazine, Mrs. Weekly can have a better limousine than those oil people across the street or those cement people 'round the corner."†   (source)
  • Just wait, someday soon he'll identify that substance present throughout the body, and he'll manufacture those by-products himself, the ones with the intoxicating effect on the spinal cord.†   (source)
  • Resembled" was not the right word—they were the same eyes; and the breadth of the upper half of the face, the flattened nose, everything, including the flush of the white skin, the healthy color of the cheeks—which in Frau Chauchat's case only feigned health and as with all the people up here was merely the superficial by-product of rest cures in the open air—it was all exactly like Pribislav, who had looked no different when they had passed one another in the schoolyard.†   (source)
  • It was all about a kind of poisoning, about the organism poisoning itself, which, Dr. Krokowski had said, was the result of the decomposition of a certain, still-unidentified substance present throughout the body; the by-products of that decomposition had an intoxicating effect on certain centers in the spinal cord, not all that different from what happens when other poisons, such as morphine or cocaine, are introduced into the body.†   (source)
  • An important by-product of the unflamboyant language is to make the proper names stand out in the line.†   (source)
  • "[68] It is a sort of by-product of the pedagogical war upon "it is /me/."†   (source)
  • Byproducts of the slaughterhouses for tanneries, soap, margarine.†   (source)
  • The utilisation of waste paper, fells of sewer rodents, human excrement possessing chemical properties, in view of the vast production of the first, vast number of the second and immense quantity of the third, every normal human being of average vitality and appetite producing annually, cancelling byproducts of water, a sum total of 80 lbs.†   (source)
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