ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fragmentarily

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Fragmentarily is an adverb meaning In a fragmentary manner.

Meaning

In a fragmentary manner.

Example Sentences

So he got his flute, propped up the book against a vase, and played the tune, whilst she hummed it fragmentarily.
In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.
Two were ramshackle old men—droolers as toothless as carp. They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fragmentally, fragmentedly, smatteringly, patchily, unpartially, scatteredly.

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