fragmentarily
Adverb
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Adverb
fragmentarily
- In a fragmentary manner.
- 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod (novel), Chapter 18,
- So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily.
- 1938, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 10,
- In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.
- 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 3, p. 57,
- Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.
- 1922, D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod (novel), Chapter 18,
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