ADVERB
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in a manner of speaking
the feeling is, as we say, quite dead -
as if it were really so
she lives here, as it were
How To Use so to speak In A Sentence
- Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak.
- ~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~ en tout cas = in any case; façon de parler = so to speak; à peu près = almost, more or less; le français (m) = French; l'anglais (m) = English; le bât (m) = packsaddle Faux amis - French Word-A-Day
- He urged bluenoses to take ladies of the street into their homes until they got back on their feet, so to speak.
- His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
- God's difference is categorially different, so to speak, from one creature's otherness from a second creature. Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
- Why," asks Poincaré, "do certain degrees of freedom appear to play no part here; why are they, so to speak, 'ankylosed'? A Librarian's Open Shelf
- Americans also have a strong technological bias, and are a people of tools and gadgets, so to speak.
- This marked the end of the first phase of -- so to speak -- the scarabaean side of his life. Something New
- Page 340, footnote 3. _idem etiam_, etc.: he says also that Jupiter is the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
- I once got through half a sudoku puzzle while being on the job, so to speak. The Sun
