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Examples of originally in a Sentence
That van originally belonged to us.
The building was originally a school.
They originally planned to fix their old car, but they decided to buy a new one instead.
Originally, the word had a very different meaning from its current meaning.
a New Yorker who is originally from Mexico
She has shown an ability to think originally about ways to improve the company.
Recent Examples of originally from the Web
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Rainfall is Port Townsend is about half as much as in Seattle, notes Gary Schweizer, manager of the Palace Hotel, a 129-year-old plus hotel originally built by a retired sea captain for $28,0000.
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It had originally been built by a commercial builder from Washington state who incorporated several commercial features within the home.
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Authorities originally thought the murders of the Turkish men were the work of gangs in the German-Turkish community, but the aftermath of a 2011 bank robbery helped lead them to clues implicating the NSU.
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Simons, 61, originally from the Netherlands, had worked as a design store owner, a furniture designer, and a real estate salesman.
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The vast majority, including those who passed through St. Ottilien, were refugees originally from eastern Europe who fled the Nazi occupation into the Soviet Union.
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Mills spoke near the kitchen of an estate originally built in 1929 by the cosmetics mogul Elizabeth Arden, who named the place the Maine Chance Lodge and hosted celebrities such as Judy Garland and Ava Gardner.
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Like juju, the style popularized by King Sunny Adé, fuji was originally built upon an embarrassment of pulsing polyrhythms shaped on kit drums, congas, bells, shakers, and talking drums, without much else beyond hectoring call-and-response singing.
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Barwell Manor, located on Genesee Street and Martin Luther King Avenue, was another piece of the South Sheridan Road strategic plan, originally thought of as the second phase but now potentially moving up, Kischer-Lepper said.
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First Known Use of originally
14th century
originally Synonyms
Near Antonyms
Phrases
at first, to start with;
ORIGINALLY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of originally for English Language Learners
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: in the beginning : when something first happened or began
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: in a new, fresh, or original way
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