Sample Sentences forper se (auto-selected)
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We did not meet, per se; but he was here with you in the hotel just before you left.† (source)
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Not big per se (as Chacko-of-Oxford would no doubt have put it).† (source)
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Actually, it's not tied directly to the Chinese per se.† (source)
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"It wasn't a dream per se, as a matter of fact," he told Jeannie.† (source)
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They were conquered, but there's no evidence of genocide per se.† (source)
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And two hundred and fourteen meters isn't a hard limit, per se.† (source)
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Despite the mark-up I'd paid in repurchasing the fake from Mr. So-and-So (ideally an actor or a clothing designer who collected as a hobby, if not illustrious as a collector per se) I could then turn around and sell it again for sometimes twice what I'd bought it back for, to some Wall Street cheese fry who didn't know Chippendale from Ethan Allen but was more than thrilled with "official documents" proving that his Duncan Phyfe secretary or whatever came from the collection of Mr. So-and-So, noted philanthropist/interior decorator/leading light of Broadway/fill-in-the-blank.† (source)
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There's nothing wrong with it per se.† (source)
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She has a special talent that has nothing to do with sex per se.† (source)
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I'm not thinking of anything fancy, and not a recording studio, per se.† (source)
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He would stay with us, but I had no legal protection per se.† (source)
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They're not dangerous per se..."But they are a right pain," said Cooper, glancing at it.† (source)
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If by "per se" Wiley meant "in and of itself alone," one in ten may even be an exaggeration.† (source)
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"The rape per se didn't impact me so much," she says.† (source)
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The only important participants absent were the original defendants; in their stead, as it were, stood Judge Tate, old Mr. Fleming, and Harrison Smith, whose careers were imperiled-not because of the appellant's allegations per se, but because of the apparent credit the Bar Association bestowed upon them.† (source)
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You can prove the practicality of planned parenthood till you get tired of listening to yourself and it's going to go nowhere because your antagonist isn't buying the assumption that anything socially practical is good per se.† (source)
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