by

Definition:
1. Near / at the side of / beside somebody or something.
2. Used for showing how or in what way something is done.
3. Past somebody or something.

Use 'by' in a sentence:

• 1. Applications should be in by next Monday at the latest.
• 2. He's obsessed by computers.
• 3. Fortunately, volunteers are not motivated by self-interest, but by altruism.
• 4. Unemployment rose (by) 3%.
• 5. I live by myself.
• 6. By night, the perimeter wire was illumined by lights.
• 7. It could be argued that laws are made by and for men.
• 8. People get really switched on by this music.
• 9. The weeks crawled by.
• 10. It works by electricity.
• 11. I wouldn't go there by choice.
• 12. Who's that book by?
• 13. By and by she met an old man with a beard.
• 14. He's German by birth.
• 15. Please bring back all library books by the end of the week.
• 16. The Mafia is by no means ignored by Italian television.
• 17. It was a typically robust performance by the Foreign Secretary.
• 18. They're paid by the hour.
• 19. Nocturnal animals sleep by day and hunt by night.
• 20. She lives by herself.
• 21. He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.
• 22. We will achieve much more by persuasion than by brute force.
• 23. We came by tube.
• 24. Much of the country is covered by forest.
• 25. 8 is divisible by 2 and 4, but not by 3.
• 26. That's a philosophy I could live by.
• 27. He was a loner by nature and by inclination.
• 28. He's over by there.
• 29. He lives all by himself.
• 30. The dance is accompanied by an original score by Henry Torgue.
• 31. They dined by candlelight.
• 32. By the 1920s, he was lionized by literary New York.
• 33. Many a good man has been destroyed by drink.
• 34. You'll be paid by direct credit into your bank account.
• 35. It's going to rain today by the look of it.
• 36. They sleep by day and hunt by night.
• 37. The market reacted by falling a further two points.
• 38. The cost will be met by the company.
• 39. It's quicker by train.
• 40. Clients can now contact us by email out of hours.
• 41. A cheque presented by Mr Jackson was returned by the bank.
• 42. Research has been constrained by a lack of funds.
• 43. Sightseeing is best done either by tour bus or by bicycles.
• 44. She would be in bed by now, as like as not.
• 45. By the time you get there the meeting will be over.
• 46. The new model will be in production by the end of the year.
• 47. They are staffed by volunteers.
• 48. The land is used by local people to graze their animals.
• 49. The machine is worked by wind power.
• 50. It will require positive action by all in the industry.
• 51. The site is being developed by a French company.
• 52. The course is approved by the Department for Education.
• 53. Manufacturing processes may be affected by the functionality of the product.
• 54. By that time I had lost interest in the idea.
• 55. The word 'love' is used in different senses by different people.
• 56. The moral characters of men are formed not by heredity but by environment.
• 57. He arrived at the solution by a simple process of deduction.
• 58. It works by remote control.
• 59. The new building should be ready by 2007.
• 60. A new era was brought into being by the war.