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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "omnibus" in a sentence

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    omnibus


    1. take the opposite stance in his Investment or Omnibus accounts (3Ney, 130)


    2. though: a new omnibus edition of his novels was due out soon and he was, understandably, too


    3. help as he was about to go on a lecture tour in the US to promote his omnibus edition, and would not


    4. signing practice for when the omnibus edition comes out


    5. than Loyd Larcher, who went on lecture tours in the US, had his omnibus edition coming out and was


    6. the heading Double Celebration for British Writer, was a paragraph that read Champagne Corks were already popping for Loyd Larcher on publication of the omnibus edition of his novels, when The Booksel er’s Guild announced


    7. You probably know that he’s been busy recently promoting the omnibus edition of his novels,


    8. Nevertheless, it was not long before her ‘destiny of power’ overpowered the will of the nation, what with the caste factor of the Hindu franchise, the communal color of the Muslin vote and the political compulsions of the regional parties playing their part in putting the wheels of the democratic omnibus of India into the Congress hands albeit with the regional political masters seated in the backseat


    9. More than ever, as I felt these warm gloves press my hand, was I sure that what they really wanted was an omnibus along Oxford Street


    10. For an hour and a half the omnibus went on and on

    11. Quite recently she had met one of those would-be husbands in an omnibus, and how glad she was when she looked at him that she had refused him


    12. If Lucy would only refuse Wemyss now, how glad she would be that she had when she met him in ten years' time in an omnibus


    13. Wiggam's Kensington house instead of taking the omnibus


    14. Jacob, getting off his omnibus, loitered up the steps, consulted his watch, and finally made up his mind to go in


    15. Then, at a top-floor window, leaning out, looking down, you see beauty itself; or in the corner of an omnibus; or squatted in a ditch--beauty glowing, suddenly expressive, withdrawn the moment after


    16. And there is a lonely hill-top where no one ever comes, and yet it is seen by me who was lately driving down Piccadilly on an omnibus


    17. "Piccadilly?" Fanny asked the conductor of the omnibus, and climbed to the top


    18. The omnibus stopped outside Charing Cross; and behind it were clogged omnibuses, vans, motor-cars, for a procession with banners was passing down Whitehall, and elderly people were stiffly descending from between the paws of the slippery lions, where they had been testifying to their faith, singing lustily, raising their eyes from their music to look into the sky, and still their eyes were on the sky as they marched behind the gold letters of their creed


    19. The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the


    20. "Bless me, child, you will have to charter an omnibus to carry them about

    21. As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to


    22. With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged


    23. Morcerf, like most other young men of rank and fortune, had his orchestra stall, with the certainty of always finding a seat in at least a dozen of the principal boxes occupied by persons of his acquaintance; he had, moreover, his right of entry into the omnibus box


    24. Hardly a week later, Duty presented itself in his study under the disguise of Fred Vincy, now returned from Omnibus College with his bachelor's degree


    25. Geoffrey Chaucer), an’ a Nether Lip as well! ’Tis a Nest, a Niche, an Old Hat, an Omnibus, an Oyster, a Palace o’ Pleasure, a Peculiar River, an’ also a Pen-Wiper (if ye scribble Verses, that is)


    26. They view investment as “a convenient omnibus word, with perhaps an admixture of euphemism—that is, a desire to lend a certain respectability to financial dealings of miscellaneous character


    27. The problem with these omnibus tests is that while they allow us to detect any of a large number of alternatives, they are not especially powerful for detecting a specific alternative


    28. Our third task is to combine the ranks of the M individual univariate tests using Fisher’s omnibus statistic


    29. “Take a ride on our steam-driven omnibus for a picnic on the Battery, where you’ll see amazing machines in action!”


    30. Alas! always the same, and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! Nil sub sole novum, says Solomon; amor omnibus idem, says Virgil; and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos

    31. An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the


    32. An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their will, through the Rue Mondetour, and the omnibus lying on its side completed the bar across the street


    33. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when the omnibus had been overturned


    34. On the outside, the front of the barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect


    35. The pole of the omnibus was placed upright and held up with ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the barricade


    36. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man understands the actions of Providence


    37. The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole


    38. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee


    39. Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a scar on that tumultuous facade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what horses of the air


    40. At the most there was an omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished

    41. He spoke to her of Paris, of love in Paris, of the lovers in Paris who kissed on the street, on the omnibus, on the flowering terraces of the cafés opened to the burning winds and languid accordions of summer, who made love standing up on the quays of the Seine without anyone disturbing them


    42. When this number is reached the omnibus is said to be complet, 'filled


    43. Tartarin got into the first omnibus that passed


    44. He perceived that there was a sailor at the back of the omnibus smoking cigarettes


    45. "Ole Bill," the omnibus, laden with Cockneys going towards the line, overtakes him


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    Synonyms for "omnibus"

    autobus bus charabanc coach double-decker jitney motorbus motorcoach omnibus passenger vehicle

    "omnibus" definitions

    an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author


    a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport


    providing for many things at once