Word Finder - especially

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(manner) In a special manner; specially.

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(focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.

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(focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something.

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Invite them all, especially Molly.

I enjoy traveling, especially to very different places.

A person could change a lot in a few years, especially when they were that young.

He had some catching up to do, especially with Quinn.

Parents kept their children at home, especially in the summer, and certainly away from public swimming areas.

I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our whole set.

The strain of our activities was wearing on everyone, especially Howie.

Computers, especially computers of the future, will have no trouble handling all the variables that influence nutrition, though there will be millions of them.

His plan seemed decidedly a good one, especially from the strength of conviction with which he spoke.

There weren't many places she could go where he couldn't find her, especially if Sofi kept interfering.

I've been picked over six years, but our family is known to be especially long lived.

It was very pleasant, when I stayed late in town, to launch myself into the night, especially if it was dark and tempestuous, and set sail from some bright village parlor or lecture room, with a bag of rye or Indian meal upon my shoulder, for my snug harbor in the woods, having made all tight without and withdrawn under hatches with a merry crew of thoughts, leaving only my outer man at the helm, or even tying up the helm when it was plain sailing.

It was unpleasant to Prince Andrew to meet people of his own set in general, and Pierre especially, for he reminded him of all the painful moments of his last visit to Moscow.

Pierre admitted that it was true, and from that was gradually led by Princess Mary's questions and especially by Natasha's into giving a detailed account of his adventures.

Everything needs to be ready, especially if the hurricane shifts to make landfall.

The booming cannonade and the fusillade of musketry were growing more intense over the whole field, especially to the left where Bagration's fleches were, but where Pierre was the smoke of the firing made it almost impossible to distinguish anything.

Maybe they would both think about it before they jumped at each other next time - especially in front of the children.

Especially since I never knew we were.

Braille is especially useful in making single manuscript copies of books.

Oh, I can understand why you would want to deceive people, I just don't understand how you can involve your family in such a thing – especially Tammy!

How noble and kingly the King was, especially in his misfortunes!

He seemed grieved that Pierre had no parents, especially that he had no mother.

He hated the idea but understood the necessity, especially after finding the second compass in the hands of demons within a week.

Demons – especially those personally trained by Darkyn – knew how to sense weakness.

It surprises me to find that such an idea has crossed the mind of any one, especially of a highly gifted critic.

And as I look to the past and the present, I see two phenomena that especially drive my optimism.

I don't want to, but I feel badly, for both Julie and especially Molly.

Gabriel suspected the Dark One wasn't going to let his little human out of Hell, especially not to see her former mate.

I had one gift which especially pleased me.

And most of them are harmful, especially the women.

Especially if he buys the garbage Shipton is selling.

While the air remained chilly, especially in the shaded patches, it was so clear and unseasonably warm Dean hardly noticed.

The drowning in a pool could have been just as traumatic as Edith's version, especially if Donnie felt some responsibility for his stepbrother's death.

She wasn't about to give Xander any leverage into her life, especially since she was planning on robbing him.

Jessi fought the sensations, not wanting to lose control, especially to him.

She liked the idea of being special, especially with the hoard of beautiful women in front of her whose perfect bodies left her feeling plain.

Jonny won't let you go that easy, especially if he suspects Xander is interested in you.

She was terrified to ask, especially after his comment about GPS tracking her.

Especially if she was about to betray him to Jonny.

First there were the natural sciences, themselves only just emerging from a confused conception of their true method; especially those which studied the borderland of physical and mental phenomena, the medical sciences; and pre-eminently that science which has since become so popular, the science of biology.

Palestinian states on the other, and that they could scarcely have escaped the all-pervading Babylonian influences of 2000-1400 B.C. It is now becoming clearer every day, especially since the discovery of the laws of Khammurabi, that, if we are to think sanely about Hebrew history before as well as after the exile, we can only think of Israel as part of the great complex of Semitic and especially Canaanite humanity that lived its life in western Asia between 2060 and 600 B.C.; and that while the Hebrew race maintained by the aid of prophetism its own individual and exalted place, it was not less susceptible then, than it has been since, to the moulding influences of great adjacent civilizations and ideas.

And didn't she owe him a kiss for saving her, especially since she planned on stealing from him?

It seemed too possible not to be real, especially with what she already knew about Xander.

It was famous in Greek mythology, and is frequently mentioned by the great poets, especially by Sophocles.

The two differ in certain details of dentition, and in the greater development in the former of the parachute, especially the interfemoral portion, which in the latter is almost absent.

The rugged Spanish coast is indented by many fjord-like inlets, especially in the west, where navigation is sometimes difficult and dangerous; but its rivers are comparatively unimportant.

At the university he made rapid progress, especially in jurisprudence, though preferring the study of history, literature, juridical science and philosophy.

This is the case in Roman history, especially in such portions as related to the history of law.

Nearly all the rest, more especially the transition from poetical to occult wisdom, was derived from Rome.

Both European and African fruit trees grow in the island; there are in places considerable orange groves, especially at Milis, to the north of Oristano.

This occurred especially in the last half of the 19th century, largely owing to the abolition of the so-called beni ademprivili.