originally
Definition:
1. In an original manner.
2. With reference to the origin or beginning.
3. Before now.
Use 'originally' in a sentence:
- 1. France originally refused to sign the treaty.
- 2. There was Greek blood in his veins: his ancestors originally bore the name Karajannis.
- 3. In a new interview, Hillary Clinton said she originally turned down the job as secretary of state.
- 4. The vote date was originally set for tomorrow.
- 5. The plane has been kept in service far longer than originally intended.
- 6. The council's land is now worth much less than originally hoped because of a slump in property prices.
- 7. Originally, we had intended to go to Italy, but then we won the trip to Greece.
- 8. I was disturbed to hear that the selection committee originally decided not to send a British team to this year's Championships.
- 9. The guards were originally hired to watch over the houses as they were being built.
- 10. The proposal originally emanated from the UN.
- 11. This standard was not originally created to deal with EA models.
- 12. "I was raised originally by my parents!" She said.
- 13. The team of archaeologists found the spot where his bones were originally interred.
- 14. A survey of 100 winter-swimmers in different age groups indicates that 80 percent originally suffered from diseases of some kind.
- 15. Originally called Lili, she eventually shortened her name to Lee.
- 16. Airplane food might not really be as tasteless as you originally thought.
- 17. The company originally intended to reopen the factory with non-union workers.
- 18. 'Chatter' is originally a frequentative form of 'chat'.
- 19. Cosby had originally selected her to co-star in his movie 'Leonard Part 6'.
- 20. There were originally six of them.
- 21. The president has accepted a diminution of the powers he originally wanted.
- 22. The valley was originally bridged by the Romans.
- 23. This same system was originally utilized by the Chinese laborers who had preceded the Japanese.
- 24. Although we try our best, sometimes our paintings rarely turn out as originally planned.
- 25. Lufthansa had originally planned to hive off its domestic operations into a subsidiary, Lufthansa Express.
- 26. It originally retailed at $23.50.
- 27. Israel had originally wanted$ 1 billion in aid, but compromised on the$ 650 million.
- 28. While he had originally traveled in order to study, traveling had become an end in itself.
- 29. He originally acted as a fence for another gang before turning to burglary himself.
- 30. Originally released in 1957, the film was remade as 'The Magnificent Seven'.
- 31. Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials.
- 32. The seminar originally scheduled for today has been cancelled.
- 33. The crater, now deeply buried in sediment, was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.
- 34. That could actually solve my dilemma, but, what I originally wanted to ask you?
- 35. It was originally planned as a reference library for the federal legislature.
- 36. Although unlike potatoes, they weren't originally cultivated there.
- 37. It originally retailed at £ 23.50.
- 38. Sunset Boulevard was originally conceived by Wilder as an astringent satire on Hollywood.
- 39. Japan had originally demanded the return of two seamen held on spying charges.
- 40. The castle was originally surrounded by a triple wall, only one of which remains.
- 41. The Christian calendar was originally based on the Julian calendar of the Romans.
- 42. Central to the operation is a mile-deep well, dug originally to explore for oil.
- 43. Originally the intention was to intersperse the historical scenes with modern ones.
- 44. Originally, Hatfield had been intended as a leisure complex.
- 45. The school was originally very small.
- 46. She comes originally from York.
- 47. The acts were originally designed to force the French to gradually abandon their American colonies.
- 48. That invention was the arch, a curved structure originally made of separate stone or brick segments.
- 49. The song was originally a filler on their first album.
- 50. The island was originally circular in shape.
- 51. Shakespearean women's roles were originally written to be played by men.