ALTOGETHER in a Sentence

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The fun of it is," he cried, "that that fool Lestrade, who thinks himself so smart, has gone off upon the wrong track altogether.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALTOGETHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
altogether
 n.  informal terms for nakedness
 ad.  to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The fun of it is," he cried, "that that fool Lestrade, who thinks himself so smart, has gone off upon the wrong track altogether.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
3  You must discard the word Fancy altogether.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
4  But I must go, you know, whether I like it or not; and I had better go where I can take with me some advantage of your influence, than where I should lose it altogether.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
5  You are altogether backward, and below the mark.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
6  She was polite, obliging, cheerful, hopeful; but, the more polite, the more obliging, the more cheerful, the more hopeful, the more exemplary altogether, she; the forlorner Sacrifice and Victim, he.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
7  You know I am a sordid piece of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding whatever.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
8  Or he may have originated it altogether, if he had the cleverness.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
9  It was not altogether from a love to his neighbour, or to himself, or from a mixture of both.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  He wrenched a quarter-staff from one of the fellows, struck down the Captain, who was altogether unaware of his purpose, and had well-nigh repossessed himself of the pouch and treasure.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  The audience were too much interested in the question not to pronounce the Prince's assumed right altogether indubitable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those, which, at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  And some," said Wamba, "have been wise enough to reward themselves; they do not march off empty-handed altogether.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
14  Yet it would be enquiring too curiously to ask, whether the recollection of Rebecca's beauty and magnanimity did not recur to his mind more frequently than the fair descendant of Alfred might altogether have approved.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  I don't altogether agree with you.
2  It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.
3  Britain has a dozen warships in the area, with a total of five thousand military personnel altogether.
4  Taken altogether, this TV play was successful.
5  Congress could ban the procession altogether.
6  A conservative coalition of Democrat and Republican congressmen developed which could delay further reforms, and sometimes block them altogether.
7  It was an altogether different situation.
8  Be careful he doesn't edge you out of your job altogether.
9  Cars are useful, but their impact on the environment is another matter altogether.
10  Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited.
11  The best option would be to cancel the trip altogether.
12  Her response was simply to evade the problem altogether.
13  The risk cannot be eliminated altogether.
14  The government has simply ignored the problem altogether.
15  A cadet should understand that the war he or she joins four or five years from now will be a different war altogether.