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adverb ɒft in combination an oft-quoted tenet archaic or literary form of often Example sentencesExamples - The textile industry, oft hailed as a saviour to poor countries with abundant cheap labour, hasn't boomed as expected.
- He even won one at Blackburn, a fact oft forgotten.
- Despite the oft disparaging remarks about wives, we are of course a lovely bunch.
- This week of the opening of the baseball season is an appropriate time to recall an incident that has oft been mistold in the retelling.
- I don't sleep very heavily and my creative moments oft come in the latest of hours, so naturally night is my time in the summer.
- She questioned the Government's oft repeated announcements of winning the hearts and minds of people.
- Similarly, the great bugbear ‘neo-liberalism’ was oft decried but never defined.
- Finally, regardless of who ultimately holds the keys to scientific knowledge, what happens to nature, the oft purported object of science?
- In this book review he discusses symbiosis in evolution, an oft neglected part of the whole evolutionary story.
- It was a touchstone for unity in an oft fractured region.
- The other oft trotted-out truism is that the yard supports far more people than just the shipbuilders.
- There is another more serious allegation, oft repeated, that I'd like to lay to rest.
- I don't suppose even the full concert version, let alone the vigil will be oft performed, which is a shame.
- As is oft said, we are indeed a fortunate lot to live in a city that has such good radio stations.
- The oft heard phrase in football is that defense wins games.
- Those jokes will certainly be oft repeated during the course of the current federal election campaign.
- Did she consider this a chance to tell her personal side of an oft - reported story?
- This very familiar and oft repeated saying takes its origin from a circumstance which occurred many years ago in Carlisle.
- Yet the course of true love oft runs at the side to father's hate.
- How oft when men are at the point of death have they been merry!
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German oft. Rhymes aloft, croft, loft, soft, toft abbreviationəʊɛfˈtiː (in the UK) Office of Fair Trading. Definition of oft in US English: oftadverb in combination an oft-quoted tenet archaic, poetic/literary, or jocular form of often Example sentencesExamples - How oft when men are at the point of death have they been merry!
- This very familiar and oft repeated saying takes its origin from a circumstance which occurred many years ago in Carlisle.
- I don't suppose even the full concert version, let alone the vigil will be oft performed, which is a shame.
- In this book review he discusses symbiosis in evolution, an oft neglected part of the whole evolutionary story.
- This week of the opening of the baseball season is an appropriate time to recall an incident that has oft been mistold in the retelling.
- Did she consider this a chance to tell her personal side of an oft - reported story?
- As is oft said, we are indeed a fortunate lot to live in a city that has such good radio stations.
- He even won one at Blackburn, a fact oft forgotten.
- I don't sleep very heavily and my creative moments oft come in the latest of hours, so naturally night is my time in the summer.
- It was a touchstone for unity in an oft fractured region.
- She questioned the Government's oft repeated announcements of winning the hearts and minds of people.
- Despite the oft disparaging remarks about wives, we are of course a lovely bunch.
- Finally, regardless of who ultimately holds the keys to scientific knowledge, what happens to nature, the oft purported object of science?
- Yet the course of true love oft runs at the side to father's hate.
- The oft heard phrase in football is that defense wins games.
- Similarly, the great bugbear ‘neo-liberalism’ was oft decried but never defined.
- The other oft trotted-out truism is that the yard supports far more people than just the shipbuilders.
- The textile industry, oft hailed as a saviour to poor countries with abundant cheap labour, hasn't boomed as expected.
- Those jokes will certainly be oft repeated during the course of the current federal election campaign.
- There is another more serious allegation, oft repeated, that I'd like to lay to rest.
Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German oft. |