THEREBY in a Sentence

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During a severe earthquake, each beam will absorb the shock by crumpling, thereby preventing serious damage to the tower.

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 Meanings and Examples of THEREBY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thereby
 ad.  thus; accordingly; by that means; because of that
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  When the new nurse permitted the baby to suck a bit of fat pork, thereby bringing on the first attack of colic, Rhett's conduct sent seasoned fathers and mothers into gales of laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
2  Once, the thought of flinging the truth tauntingly in Melanie's face and seeing the collapse of her fool's paradise had been an intoxicating one, a gesture worth everything she might lose thereby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
3  She did not lose thereby for Ashley refused to take advantage of her first low offer and met the highest bid that she had ever had for them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
4  They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
5  But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
6  And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from other tribes of his genus.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
7  Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby give to the negro's lordly chest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
8  Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
9  Oh, boy, nor will I thee, unless I should thereby drag thee to worse horrors than are here.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
10  She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  Accordingly, he raised his halberd, and would have laid the staff of it lustily on the Jew's shoulders, had not the Black Knight stopped the blow, and thereby transferred the Holy Clerk's resentment to himself.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
12  Thou art mad," answered Malvoisin; "thou mayst thus indeed utterly ruin thyself, but canst not even find a chance thereby to save the life of this Jewess, which seems so precious in thine eyes.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
13  In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without license; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  Nancy, appearing much gratified thereby, saluted him cordially.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  As soon as the sad little boy had withdrawn from the fire he clasped the money tight in the palm of his hand, as if thereby to fortify his courage, and began to run.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
Example Sentence:
1  He became a citizen, thereby gaining the right to vote.
2  Let him be cordial in his ways and refined in conduct ; thereby full of joy he will make an end of ill.
3  Diets that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol tend to clog up our arteries, thereby reducing the blood flow to our hearts and brains.
4  During a severe earthquake, each beam will absorb the shock by crumpling, thereby preventing serious damage to the tower.
5  They hunger and thirst no more; all their wants are supplied, and all the uneasiness caused thereby is removed.