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How to use by itself in a sentence

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So, essentially, the hymen is a small bit of skin that may hurt a bit if it is torn somehow, but will go away by itself even if it isn't broken.
If you're just going to serve the braciola by itself, simmer for another hour.
Although WEP is one of the most talked-about means of protection for a wireless net, it will not by itself make your network secure.
He wanders past the old city gate, marooned by itself on an island in the traffic.
In isolated cleft palate, the cleft palate occurs by itself, without cleft lip or other malformations.
Thus the appearance of teleology by itself is not sufficient to infer intelligent design.
I was suitably impressed with my friend's performance as a schizophrenic, but the play by itself made no sense.
A bowl of this gruel is a hearty meal all by itself, but there are some serving suggestions that I'll offer up.
In North America, you're more likely to have matcha served in an actual milkshake than by itself, as plain tea.
Recognizing that rather self-evident truth is hardly by itself the substance of enduring art.
The basic proposition is that in the ordinary case a breach of statutory duty does not, by itself, give rise to any private law cause of action.
Bronze rapidly became a very popular metal since it was harder and more durable than either copper or tin by itself.
Conceptual analysis by itself, without the reinforcement of a kind of Foucauldian archeology, is insufficiently powerful to help us in this task.
We put that with a double or triple cream cheese or by itself, it's fantastic.
The business side of Wilson's career all by itself provides a short course in the dark side of show business.
Both groups sang very much in tune, but unlike, say, certain more modern groups, intonation never excited you by itself.
Overcast the cut edges so they don't fray, then toss the item in the machine by itself in case of colour bleed.
Rather than just binding to ribosomes and gumming them up, ricin is actually an enzyme all by itself.
In calm water, he simply unsnaps the chain and uses the mushroom anchor by itself.
The game by itself, is sort of bland and unexciting because of the lack of variety.
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So a military treaty by itself, or one unintelligently bolted on to other measures, cannot be enough.
By 1814 France once again faced invasion and resistance to Napoleonic rule grew stronger, if insufficient to seal his downfall by itself.
The arrival of a police car would have forestalled or deterred such an attack by itself.
Some consumers prefer to eat durian by itself but others prefer to consume it with glutinous rice and lemang.
One lay dead ahead in a section all by itself, and she guessed that it probably belonged to Cal.
All that is required is the adoption of a hands-off attitude, allowing the market to develop by itself.
This couplet, which appears by itself rather than as the conclusion of a longer passage, forms the final two lines of the second canto.
In any case, only the United States has the military capability to undertake global operations by itself.
A carcinogen does not cause cancer by itself, but only in interaction with a host.
I've never even been in the same concert hall as a Stradivarius, which is a cool first all by itself.
Obviously this rather flimsy argument by elimination carries very little weight by itself.
After 25 minutes Waitress 3 delivered the chiliburger by itself and with mustard.
What we know from animal experiments is that the fowl pox by itself, or the DNA by itself, are not very good vaccines.
Each was completely by itself in a sun-sparkled immensity of ocean, each had contours and particularities as distinctive as a face.
Cigarette smoking by itself does not cause complete loss of the sense of smell.
It is so different from all other animals, that scientists have placed it in an order, or group, all by itself, hyracoids.
Finding one of these big peccaries all by itself and away from its herd was unprecedented in our experience.
The Constitution was designed, like a perpetual motion machine, to run by itself.
The pig-footed bandicoot may belong with the Peramelinae, or it perhaps should be classified by itself.
A laser beam, by itself, cannot conduct electricity because it contains no charge carriers such as electrons to produce a current flow.
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Tony's fire and enthusiasm has always been a delight, but desire gets you nowhere by itself.
Although the plumy flowers are beautiful, the form, color, and texture of miscanthus foliage is quite striking by itself.
I accept, as Cleanthes did, that the argument does not by itself lead to that conclusion.
This was intentionally to keep you guessing, which by itself isn't a bad thing.
But because it was a small council it did not have the money to make drastic improvements by itself.
Now they've found that the centrifugal force of a spinning ring balances the pull of gravity all by itself.
Still, the film is very watchable and as I said the scenery is worth watching all by itself.
It can be used by itself on smaller projects or to supplement big equipment on larger jobs.
Cathy Freeman's 400m victory would by itself have been enough for a crowd of 112,000 adoring Aussies.
The presence of natural degraders does not, by itself, insure biodegradation will be successful.
First of all what was the crisis in Gujrat that an assembly wherein the ruling party enjoyed comfortable majority by itself had to be dissolved?
But it does not, by itself, make it rational to believe there is any such a connection.
For instance, he asserts that private industry by itself will not make the necessary investment required to improve its security.
Just zoning out in a bath from 20 minutes to an hour can be a wonderful home-spa experience all by itself, relaxing and private.
It can occur by itself or with other, common autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
The availability of a liberal education curriculum by itself is unlikely to stem the tide of technical training.
It was described as light, crisp and appley, and the menu suggested it was good with fish, chicken or just by itself.
The young bird either roosts with its parents, perched in between them, or by itself some distance away.
It changed the entire planning world and left local government to deal with it all by itself.
Cleaning and preparing, and then scanning the fragile autochromes took a few weeks by itself.
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While most Valpolicella is simple at best, this dramatic, exuberant wine, with complex flavors of licorice, spice, mocha, dried cherries, and vanilla, is in a class by itself.
Besides being an essential ingredient of curry powder, turmeric is often used by itself for colouring and flavouring foodstuffs, including fish dishes.
Chronically short of musicians for military funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle that plays taps by itself as the operator holds it to his lips.
Such evidence can have sufficient probative force to make it just to admit it even though, taken by itself, it would not be sufficient to prove guilt.
No, the Internet sales tax will not, by itself, shut down some aspiring small-business owner.
Neither substitution nor transposition works well by itself.
For fear of being sideswiped he did not park his car by itself.
An iPhone by itself is a cool phone, though by no means ahead of all other phones in terms of specs.
The view, looking across the tide-churned narrows of Strangford Lough to Portaferry's twin village, Strangford, would be worth the detour by itself.
When you drink a sugary soda by itself, your insulin levels surge.
Second, it maintains the temperature by itself, rather than you standing there fiddling with the stove dial.
This means that instead of a flour-based gravy as accompaniment, pot-roast meat can be served with the cooking sauce that has miraculously thickened all by itself.
I used the preamp by itself with a variety of mics and it was remarkable.
The Kennedy Center almost qualifies as a civic center by itself.
Although the application of a cold wet cloth to the injured area may keep the bruise from becoming too livid, the bruise should disappear by itself in 10 to 14 days.
But while the GoPro is impressive by itself, it has some serious wow factor when combined with a drone.
The addy should change by itself, but it won't do that forever.
A poor nutritional status by itself is not necessarily a valid indication for gastrostomy placement as it may be the result of an advanced terminal disease.
Ideally, the tree should be able to stand up by itself without staking.
Stasis, by itself, is an alright card... decent for stalling in a monoblue deck, and it gives a really good ability, shutting down all untapping.
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Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger.
Tin was much less common than lead and is only marginally harder, and had even less impact by itself.
However, by itself materialism says nothing about how material substance should be characterized.
Scotland has always participated by itself in most of the major tournaments, such as the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship.
The county of Essex by itself forms a NUTS 2 statistical unit in the East of England region.
Codebreaking by itself did not decrease the losses, which continued to rise ominously.
Salt cod is a staple food eaten by itself and used in stews, casseroles and soups.
Moral diversity in the citizen population by itself assures that some discrimination of this kind will occur.
In Australia and New Zealand, the phrase de facto by itself has become a colloquial term for one's domestic partner.
The next flight on October 15 failed spectacularly when the second stage ignited on the pad and took off by itself.
Gaelic, by itself, is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic, especially in Scotland, and so it is ambiguous.
While refuelling he knocked the jacks and the car drove off by itself, before beaching on a dune.
The fungal, algal, or cyanobacterial component of a lichen can be grown by itself in culture.
The Birdman lives alone in a cottage that stands all by itself on a hill in the south part of the island.
A single rope is the most common and it is intended to be used by itself, as a single strand.
This statement helps to define temperature but it does not, by itself, complete the definition.
Water by itself does not harm the wood, but rather, wood with consistently high moisture content enables fungal organisms to grow.
Hard to quote a gemination scenario where an aspirated consonant is truly doubled by itself.
Studies have shown the perception of the accent, not the accent by itself, often results in negative evaluations of speakers.
Although it was not a great incentive by itself, the conditions at New Lanark for the workers and their families were idyllic for the time.
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An upright semigrand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity.
It is financially too tied to West Germany to exist by itself, he explained.
We report that the WNV capsid by itself induces rapid nuclear condensation and cell death in tissue culture.
Each story-song combo stands by itself, and the classic songs are presented with full musical notation.
For instance, Goldin says, gingerroot, Brewed by itself or with your tea, can soothe an upset stomach, and brewing mint will help digestion.
Ammonia ice by itself would evaporate on Ceres today, because the dwarf planet is too warm.
All artificial florists are not good feather dressers. Feather dressing is an art by itself and has to be learned by apprenticeship.
One, useful in polypropylene and other polyolefins, is a new phosphate salt commercially available as Amgard NK by itself or as Amgard NP with a nitrogen synergist.
The KML module in GeoServer has been rewritten and the KML point symbolizer has been enhanced to allow features KML by itself normally wouldn't, like stacked symbols.
The court noted that other states have found that the growth of a tumor, by itself, constitutes a compensable injury for purposes of medical malpractice.
Previous research in animals found that the disconnect between TSH and T3 levels occurs when T4 is given by itself, but not when a combination of T4 and T3 is administered.
Tin does not occur naturally by itself, and must be extracted from a base compound, usually cassiterite, stannite, cylindrite, franckeite, canfieldite, and teallite.
One of the unusual ways the handset acts is rebooting by itself.
Indeed, we found that achyrofuran was not bacteriolytic by itself although it greatly compromised membrane impermeability as determined by increased SYTOX Green uptake.
First, in the realm of foundations, Boole reduced Aristotle's four propositional forms to one form, the form of equations, which by itself was a revolutionary idea.
Classification by olfactive family is a starting point for a description of a perfume, but it cannot by itself denote the specific characteristic of that perfume.
It is all that subsists by itself and which has not its being in another, God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all being uncreated.
As in Old Irish and traditional literary Welsh, the verb can be preceded by a particle with no real meaning by itself but originally used to make the utterance easier.
Coast Guard by itself is the world's 12th largest naval force.
On poorer medium soils mixed grain still gives a satisfactory yield where each single component, grown by itself, would often result in a misyield.
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Since neither the Congress nor the President appears to have authorized a privateer during the war, the Navy would not have had the authority to do so by itself.
In addition to being served by itself, customers also order it mixed with hard cider, as a Jack O'Lantern, or mixed with a spicy oatmeal stout, in the Stumpkin.
The further addition of fulvic acid sets our e-Water in a class by itself.

Examples from Classical Literature

When coupled with hogg it loses what little distinction it might have had by itself.
Will it be published by itself and obtainable in some handier form than the broadsheet of the Times?
This first result, multiplied by itself and by the height, gives the cubature of the tree.
When an abortion takes place by itself, without any outside aid, we call it spontaneous abortion.
It came out by itself, as the spout of a teapot had once come off by itself in her hand.
The interest which he has to find on the Imperial debt amounts by itself to mk.
Coffee to be reshipped, either by lighter or rail, is heaped in piles by itself until loaded on to the lighters or freight cars.
Throughout the poem nearly every line is complete by itself and there is no strophic arrangement.
Ether, to the scientist, is not a substate or even a state of matter, but is a something apart by itself.
Here is a choice of three definitions, but not one of them is by itself satisfying.
Glucose, which is one of the constituents of invert sugar, is largely used by itself in brewing.
In this deflagration the Acid is dissipated, and totally separated from the Alkali, which now remains by itself.
The diesel engine is in a class by itself, its cycle and method of control being somewhat different from the others.
A butte is a hill of sedimentary rock, not mountain-like in appearance, and standing by itself in a flat region.
The teething ring stayed up in the air and then by itself moved toward baby's waving hands and let him get a hold of it.
I think, though, that Mayor seidel's defense would by itself make this experiment memorable.
They have managed to get one electron all by itself on a droplet of oil and they have seen how it made the oil behave.
In common speech an adjective may stand by itself as a predicate, and so might be said to be categorematic.
To the west of Milwaukee, across the valley of the Menominee, rises a sandy hilltop which is a little insect kingdom by itself.
It was the happiest time I ever had, and shines out by itself in that already so unforgettably delightful vacation.
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If the tool be lightly held, it will be found that it tends to rotate by itself.
There was no such thing then as a citizen of the United States of and by itself.
The brain energy by itself can't take the 147 place of a picture tube in a TV receiver.
The controls appeared to be functioning smoothly enough and after a minute or so the brake pedal came down all by itself.
When these discs disappear, the fibre by itself resembles the vitruvian scroll, and may be called a curvilinear fret.
The American state denies to the church all possessory rights unless incorporated by itself.
Each of these two clauses is independent of the other, for each might stand by itself as a complex sentence.
This is the reason for placing it by itself, followed by the congruence theorems.
The soil should be compact, and the seeding can be made in the spring with a cover crop, or in August by itself.
Privacy, therefore does not by itself make a datum unamenable to scientific treatment.
Yet the old life at blent would not have served by itself now.
A word that can stand by itself as a term is said to be categorematic.
Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
Yet the bicycle wouldn't be spinning from Streatham to Croydon by itself.
When the idea you've put on the table takes the form of a verb, you can refer back to it with an auxiliary verb all by itself.
If you leave one louse or a couple of eggs in the hair, your problem will accelerate A lice infestation will not go away by itself.
If one of them be perfect by itself, the other will be an excrescence.
It was the sexless idea, existing by itself, that was rare and exquisite.
Taken by itself, the Greek argument is a nice piece of formal logic.
The funerary canopy of Queen Isi-em-Kheb is also a thing by itself.
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The shoyu is a sauce by itself and brewed of wheat, beans and salt.
Every family lived and hunted and worked and died for and by itself.
But each of his thefts was almost a new sin, and would make a story by itself.
Consequently, matter is impassible, as by itself it possesses no quality.
Nitrogen by itself is an inert gas, colorless and uninflammable.
In theory, one interceptor could handle a missile all by itself.
Study the isobaric chart of each day of the series by itself at first.
Designed to be worn by itself or as part of a costume, the Mega Stomp Panic is a first-of-its-kind audio reality costume.
Of what nature will be that molecule supposed to possess life by itself?
Hence, most of the home farm stands apart in a valley by itself.
From a too well-stocked memory the Inspector drew one short adhesive word which surprises by itself even unblushing Ethiopia.
You know what a transformer does, but what does the name by itself convey?
This mass arrest of the Gods is going to cause an upheaval all by itself.
Nor can nescience by itself be the cause, and it is of a uniform nature.
Look, there is a poor little one wobbling off all by itself.
When I say the Pachmayr Dominator is unique, it's because it's not a whole pistol by itself.
The low, voluble delivery was enough by itself to compel my attention.
A shout made us pause, and, looking back, there was the poor little chair rocking all by itself in the middle of the road, while a small boy sat on the fence and whooped.
For example, there is a family of poor folk who have rented from the landlady a room which does not adjoin the other rooms, but is set apart in a corner by itself.

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