virtually

Definition:
1. Almost or very nearly, so that any slight difference is not important.
2. By the use of computer software that makes something appear to exist; using virtual reality technology.

Use 'virtually' in a sentence:

• 1. It was virtually impossible to synchronize our lives so as to take vacations and weekends together.
• 2. This show, too, was virtually sold out before it opened.
• 3. He knew virtually nothing about music but he could smell a hit.
• 4. The two words are virtually interchangeable.
• 5. The three bombs were virtually identical.
• 6. Street crime is virtually endemic in large cities.
• 7. Most developers reserve the right to turn down a property they think is virtually unsaleable.
• 8. They are controlling so much cocoa that they are virtually monopolizing the market.
• 9. The city has been virtually paralysed by sudden snowstorms.
• 10. The country has become virtually ungovernable.
• 11. Last night's resounding victory over Birmingham City has virtually assured them of promotion.
• 12. The carnival got off to a virtually trouble-free start with the police reporting only one arrest.
• 13. Its members had come out virtually unanimously against the tests.
• 14. It would have been virtually impossible to research all the information.
• 15. For many years prices have remained virtually unchanged.
• 16. Fishing is possible in virtually any weather.
• 17. The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.
• 18. Its vineyards are virtually contiguous with those of Ausone.
• 19. I was amazed that virtually all the things I took for granted up north just didn't happen in Savannah.
• 20. Polio has been virtually eradicated in Brazil.
• 21. Virtually every woman in the '20s swooned over Valentino.
• 22. In less than two hours Cohen capitulated to virtually every demand.
• 23. Virtually all cooking was done over coal-fired ranges.
• 24. She eulogized him virtually right up to their sudden break-up.
• 25. Joanna spent most of her twenties virtually estranged from her father.
• 26. The old Dutch fort with its thick high walls looks virtually impregnable.
• 27. My mother was an amazing woman. She raised four of us kids virtually singlehandedly.
• 28. The journalists found a city virtually under siege.
• 29. Local production virtually eliminates transport costs.
• 30. "the survival of the fittest," a slogan that virtually preempted all debate.
• 31. The human spirit is virtually indestructible.
• 32. Using traditional methods poor farmers can be virtually self-sufficient.
• 33. A hundred years ago coronary heart disease was virtually unknown in Europe and America.
• 34. Their legal rights are virtually nil.
• 35. The author is virtually unknown outside Poland.
• 36. Amongst the population at large the support for the present regime is virtually zero.
• 37. A few years ago it was virtually impossible to find superior quality coffee in local shops.
• 38. He virtually admitted he was guilty.
• 39. Last year's profits were virtually wiped out.
• 40. This new material is virtually unbreakable.
• 41. The sound is virtually undetectable to the human ear.
• 42. Majid's writing was virtually indecipherable.
• 43. This year's results are virtually the same as last year's.
• 44. The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear.
• 45. Valentino was virtually deified by legions of female fans.
• 46. A lot of contemporary music is virtually inaccessible.
• 47. It has remained virtually unchanged since time immemorial.