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1. or


Coffee or tea?
You should have locked, or at least closed, all the doors.
Is bungee jumping frightening or fun?
A very brief warning or explanation is enough for an intelligent person.
Onions can be eaten raw or cooked.
When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).
In Singapore, one way to punish a criminal is to whip him or her.
During the past several years, many Japanese have been either killed or injured while traveling overseas.
How about cup of tea or something, if you aren't in a hurry?
For quantities of 20 or more, we can allow you a special discount of 10% on the prices quoted.
Whether or not beer gardens get a lot of customers depends on the weather.
Having all of you here is more reassuring than having the police or anybody else.
No person achieves success or happiness when compelled to do what he naturally dislikes to do.
I've heard that eating one or two servings of fish a week will reduce your chances of getting heart disease.
The Japanese pay more attention to the group or the organization than to the individual.

English word "or"(or) occurs in sets:

Nicholas' Sight Words

2. otherwise


I think otherwise.
Even if you know the truth, you had better pretend otherwise at present.
My impression of this government is that they need a more forceful economic policy, otherwise they'll encounter large problems in the future.
Otherwise, it is considered impolite to pass food with the left hand, because the left hand is used for bathing.
How is it that otherwise reasonable people come to believe that this same roof, that practically vanishing commodity, is freely obtainable just by packing up and going to another country?
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
There is no act which Christianity forbids, that the law will not reach: if it were otherwise, Christianity would not be, as it has always been held to be, part of the law of England.
Did you see his work? Would he have wanted to do it badly, he wouldn't have proceeded otherwise.
Unless otherwise decided by the directors, if the company has a common seal and it is affixed to a document, the document must also be signed by at least one authorised person in the presence of a witness who attests the signature.
In countries with electoral colleges, citizens vote for representatives to pick heads of state for them, adding an extra layer to what would otherwise be a direct election.
Some clarinetists use clarinets tuned to A instead of B flat in passages which would otherwise be written in unusual keys.
... otherwise labels are displayed in the requisition’s base language.
You have to be careful when driving a car because otherwise you may cause an accident.
Furthermore, experiments were never carried out against the rules but were performed always well within them - otherwise they would not be recognized as experiments at all.

English word "or"(otherwise) occurs in sets:

#2 wejściówka ([nie]formalne)

3. used to say what possibilities there are



4. more


I want more.
When people meet, first impressions determine more than 50 percent of whatever happens next.
Blow by blow, her punches got more intense.
Tom claims he doesn't watch much TV, but he watches more than three hours every day.
If you don't start treating people with a little more respect, people may start avoiding you like the plague.
A lot of people who have up until now been spending money having a good time now need to be more careful with their money.
Between 1820 and 1973, the United States admitted more than 46 million immigrants.
For quantities of 20 or more, we can allow you a special discount of 10% on the prices quoted.
In all my travels I've never seen a more beautiful mountain than Everest.
Because his family traveled from place to place, Cesar Chavez attended more than thirty schools as a child.
Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.
Generally speaking, college students have more free time than high school students.
The errors apparent in his results are due more to carelessness than faulty procedures.
Her technique is superb, but she needs to play with more expression.
You can't easily put photos on an iPad from more than one computer. However, you can email photos to yourself from various computers and download these photos to your iPad.

5. either


I don't, either.
A black panther can be a jaguar or leopard, but in either case it has a gene that causes it to produce more melanin than other specimens.
It is a toss-up whether to drink sake or whiskey; too much of either results equally in drunken revelry.
In either case, the division is real and useful; but it can also be misleading.
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
Is this kid autistic or does he have ADHD? His behavior is hard to characterize either way.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Everybody in that company is either a vice-president or a senior vice-president; they're all chiefs and no Indians.
No, no! That isn't the smiling face we are looking for. It was a 'smirk' either that or a 'sneer'.
With such a vivid imagination he'll become either a world-famous novelist or a lunatic.
With a high, closed collar, figure-hugging cut, and large slits at either side of a straight skirt, the qipao is unique in its ability to communicate both modesty and sensuousness.
Depending on which side it’s inserted, it will either point towards the back, detecting the ear, or point towards the front.
As a member of the society they have ample reason not to say no. But they have equally compelling reasons not to say yes, either