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.
