How to use albeit in a sentence
40 example sentences · conjunction
Albeit means although, despite (it) being. Example: “Her father was a distinguished gentleman, albeit a poor one.”
Examples of albeit by meaning
conjunctionAlthough, despite (it) being.
- Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 92
- There’s an easy, albeit expensive, way to fix the national crisis in forensic crime labs.2007 June 17, Ellen Marrus, Houston Chronicle
- Up front, skipper and open-side Lewis Moody looked almost back to full fitness, while England's set-piece was barely troubled, albeit against a Romania side showing 11 changes from that beaten by Argentina earlier in the week.2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67 – 3 Romania”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2019
More sentences with albeit
- Her father was a distinguished gentleman, albeit a poor one.From the entry distinguished
- Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable.From the entry unprofitable
- But the conventional nature of rhyme and metre, their essential arbitrariness, points to the fact that they themselves are also signifiers, albeit paralexical and to some extent parasyntactic.From the entry paralexical
- We were sleeping in spartan army-style tents, albeit tents with plumbed-in toilets behind bamboo screens out back.2026 April 21, Cal Flyn, “On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife”, in The Guardian. From the entry plumb in
- It's been a rocky road for Caledonian Sleeper, but one that shows signs of recovery, albeit slow.2020 January 2, Richard Clinnick, “After some alarms, Sleeper awakens”, in Rail, page 48. From the entry rocky road
- Albeit they do not yet let me touch the clothing iron, claiming it to be too dangerous.2020 August, Asato Asato [pseudonym; Toru Asakura], translated by Roman Lempert, “Deaf to the Songbirds’ Lament”, in 86—Eighty-Six, volume…. From the entry clothing iron
- The thought of turning it into an Airbnb had crossed my mind – albeit only fleetingly.2019, Maxine Morrey, Coming Home to Wishington Bay. From the entry airbnb
- The God of Death has called one of its valiant warrior home, albeit, too soon.2019, "Dedication", in Jennifer P. B. Price, "Testing Construct Redundancy: Resilience, Grit, Hardiness, and Mental Toughness", thesis…. From the entry valar morghulis
- She had growled at the giant stego, albeit from a safe distance.2017, Seth Chambers, Her Rule Would Always Last, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry stego
- What’s here is all surface-scratching, albeit entertaining and riveting in parts.2015 October 21, Dana Barbuto, “Review: Aaron Sorkin makes ‘Steve Jobs’ work”, in Northwest Herald. From the entry go for the jugular
- Puritans had always been only a minority, albeit one with disproportionate influence.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 46. From the entry civil war
- However, there certainly is a tremendous amount of injury that is promoted, albeit not intentionally, in sport.2010, Eric Anderson, Adam White, Sport, Society and Social Problems: A Critical Introduction, page 71. From the entry teamsport
- Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.2009 November, Dan Zarrella, “Social News and Bookmarking”, in The Social Media Marketing Book, O’Reilly Media, published 2011, section…. From the entry digger
- Another application of unstable grasping—albeit morally condemnable—is confidence games, e.g., skill crane machines.2008 February 11, Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands, Springer Science & Business Media…. From the entry skill crane
- These defensive mines anticipated modern antivehicular mines, albeit by collapsing rather than exploding.2006, Norman Youngblood, The development of mine warfare: a most murderous and barbarous conduct. From the entry antivehicular
- Twelfth Night is replete with gullings, albeit of different degrees and durations.2003, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey, volume 52, page 121. From the entry gulling
- The LLL's founders allied themselves with physicians, albeit unconventional ones, from its very inception.2001, Jacqueline H. Wolf, Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries…. From the entry LLL
- Richard's suit of Ursula was progressing, albeit at the pace of a snail on Tuinal.1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 68. From the entry Tuinal
- Everyday language itself is riddled with metaphors, albeit often rather faded or worn ones.1996, Michael Toolan, “Introduction”, in Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (Post-Contemporary Interventions)…. From the entry metaphoricality
- But these phenomena remain a proof, albeit in reverse, of the perennity of the mystical quest.1972, John Bowman, editor, Comparative Religion: The Charles Strong Trust Lectures 1961-1970. From the entry perennity
- I will tell thee, albeit that I know thou wilt not understand me.1968 [1540], John Nevinson, transl., Raffella of Master Alexander Piccolomini: Or Rather, A Dialogue of the Fair Perfectioning of Ladies…. From the entry buffin
- But it also has instructions for a “Champagne fish sauce”, a sole meunière, albeit by another name, and “pigs’ trotters Bourguignon”.2026 May 30, Jay Rayner, “Why the best British food is actually French”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry bourguignon
- Rail technology advanced step by step - albeit electrification was a good stride, rather than a short step.2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 65. From the entry stride
- While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.2022, Jenny McKee, “Let's Talk Turkey Beards”, in Audubon. From the entry beard
- And so, with the Führer on board, albeit not literally, another six vessels were rapidly placed under conversion.2021 February 17, Drachinifel, 20:52 from the start, in German Merchant Raiders of WW2 - Gentleman Raiders of the High Seas, archived from…. From the entry on board
- TfW has staff enforcing mask protocols at all the busy stations and most travellers oblige, albeit some with ill grace.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66. From the entry protocol
- That meant Alonnen could now scry inside directly, albeit with a fuzzy view and no real hope of clear sound.2014 May 6, Jean Johnson, The Guild, Penguin, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry scry
- Intelligencing for personal profit, albeit through the service of the crown, could call the agent's allegiance into question.2010, R. Adams, R. Cox, Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture, page 78. From the entry intelligencing
- It is a known fact that Bolshevism has unmistakable characteristics of apocalyptic chiliasm, albeit misinterpreted in a physical, earthly way.2008, Detlef Garbe, Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich, page 49. From the entry chiliasm
- The anchor in this case serves as little more than a backup (albeit a critical one) to the stance.2004, Mark Houston, Kathy Cosley, “Snow and Ice”, in Alpine Climbing: Techniques to Take You Higher, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers…. From the entry stance
- But even here, Washington’s role in the development of new and important constitutional forms was substantial, albeit unintended.1993, Glenn A. Phelps, George Washington and American Constitutionalism (American Political Thought), Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of…. From the entry unintention
- Machine language is certainly the most efficient language on the Apple, albeit the least pleasant in which to code.1979, Apple II Reference Manual, Cupertino: Apple Computer Inc., page 48. From the entry machine language
- A no-holds-barred, gritty – albeit often comic – portrait of the travails of a disparate group of misfits navigating Edinburgh’s dark, drug-riddled underbelly.2023 July 2, David Barnett, “‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now”, in The…. From the entry no-holds-barred
- Biologists and artists later proposed alternatives, albeit fanciful, that were more plausibly dinosaurlike and less biased towards the form of our own species.2023 June 7, Massimo Sandal, “How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate”, in Scientific American. From the entry dinosaurlike
- And over the course of a couple of days, albeit in a disjointed and non-linear manner, I had basically watched all of What Women Want.2023 October 3, Stuart Heritage, “Mean Girls in 23 parts: the rise of movies and shows watched on TikTok”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry who knew
- The ride quality is pretty good - albeit a bit juddery when sitting over the end bogies, but not bad over the articulated bogies.2023 July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 60. From the entry juddery
- He’s a warlock—albeit a mediocre one.2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its…. From the entry lifemate
Meaning of albeit
- conjunction Although, despite (it) being.
Questions about albeit in a sentence
- How do you use albeit in a sentence?
- Albeit is used as a conjunction. For example: “Her father was a distinguished gentleman, albeit a poor one.”
- What is a short sentence with albeit?
- “He’s a warlock—albeit a mediocre one.”
- What does albeit mean?
- Albeit means although, despite (it) being.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: albeit (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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