as a rule
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.93 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In general; most often.
Example Sentences
- "We go fishing every Sunday as a rule, but today the lake is frozen."
- "His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…]."
- "As a rule, single sentences should not be written or printed as paragraphs. An exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation between the parts of an exposition or argument."
- "As a rule men through economic conditions marry so late that they have already half exhausted their virile power before they marry. And when they marry young they are so ignorant and so self-centered that they imagine their wives must be satisfied when they are."