sectionally

Example Sentences

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Jefferson was thinking nationally and not sectionally; he was ready for the great rôle he was about to assume.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

The war, for the time, parted the Nation sectionally.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

Him and me got as thick personally as the Emperor of Russia and the dove of peace, but sectionally we didn't amalgamate.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

The separate threads of the narrative must be treated separately, and yet the subject not be dealt with sectionally, for that is not the way in which the things occurred. 

From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir

His country was no longer his native Virginia alone: he was thinking nationally and not sectionally.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert