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EVERYWHERE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does everywhere mean?
• EVERYWHERE (adverb)
The adverb EVERYWHERE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: EVERYWHERE used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To or in any or all places
Synonyms:
all over; everyplace; everywhere
Context example:
looked all over for a suitable gift
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples
They are sent everywhere, to the heart of Africa, like Stanley, or to interview the Pope, or to explore unknown Thibet.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Everywhere there were small hills of snow where the wind had piled it up.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Death stalked everywhere, and it was only a matter of time when some one of those many huge seas would fall upon the boat, roll over it, and pass on.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
News about just how well you are doing will likely surface on a five-star day, December 15, when Uranus will contact good fortune planet Jupiter, spreading joy and optimism everywhere.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
For, let me tell you, he is known everywhere that men have been.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mr. Dick is his name here, and everywhere else, now—if he ever went anywhere else, which he don't.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And there were dogs everywhere that snarled at him and that he must not attack.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Valrosa well deserved its name, for in that climate of perpetual summer roses blossomed everywhere.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He knew the passage like the palm of his hand, and though the man in the chains got everywhere more water than was down in the chart, John never hesitated once.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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