All 20 Uses
virtual
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
(Edited)
- On one day, Louise discovered that Louie had impaled his leg on a bamboo beam; on another, she had to ask a neighbor to sew Louie's virtually severed toe back on.
p. 6.1virtually = almost
- Sweating profusely day and night, training in the sun, unable to sleep in stifling hotel rooms and YMCAs, lacking any appetite, virtually every athlete lost a huge amount of weight.
p. 24.1
- In the Pacific, virtually everything above Australia and west of the international date line had been taken by Japan.
p. 65.3
- The narrow water tins, opened to the downpour, caught virtually nothing.
p. 142.2
- Mac was virtually catatonic.
p. 160.1
- The rise and fall of the raft had ceased, and it sat virtually motionless.
p. 166.1
- Virtually every day, they flew into rages that usually ended in Phil and Louie being bombarded with stones and lit cigarettes, spat upon, and poked with sticks.
p. 181.9
- The captives and their guards came from cultures with virtually no overlap in language or custom.
p. 182.1
- As a result, in many hopeless battles, virtually every Japanese soldier fought to the death.
p. 195.4
- It contained virtually no protein and was grossly lacking in nutritive value and calories.
p. 197.3
- The curious thing about Harris was that while he was certainly a tall man—six foot two or three, according to his daughter—virtually everyone, including Louie, would remember him as a giant, by one account six foot eight, by another six-ten.
p. 202.3
- Given that Louie had drifted two thousand miles on a hole-riddled raft with virtually no provisions, a few hundred miles on the Sea of Japan in a sturdy powered boat seemed manageable.
p. 225.4
- Across the water was the bright bustle of Tokyo, still virtually untouched by the war.
p. 230.3
- Virtually nothing about Japan's use of POWs was in keeping with the Geneva Convention.
p. 234.7
- In consequence, the Bird flaunted his impunity and virtually ran the camp.
p. 245.5
- The three hundred residents, mostly Australians, were shrunken down to virtual stick figures.
p. 277.6
- The promoters had renamed the marquee event in tribute to Louie, who was still believed dead by virtually everyone outside of his family.
p. 278.8
- The POWs were taken back to shore and dropped there, so caked in coal that they were virtually indistinguishable.
p. 283.6
- Virtually every POW believed that the destruction of this city had saved them from execution.
p. 320.2 *
- Seeing the condition of the POWs, American authorities had decided to hospitalize virtually all of them.
p. 327.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense
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(2)
(virtual as in: computer's virtual world) something simulated by a computer
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)