Read full poem →Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the foe drew near.
Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought
The close recesses of the virgin's thought;
Dictionary Entry
In the fact that; in the sense that; for the cause or reason that; because.
In a Sentence
“This essay is a good one in that it comprehensively outlines all the major arguments on this issue.”
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Poetry examples for “in that”
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Read full poem →In that fierce light which beats upon a throne,
And blackens every blot: for where is he,
Read full poem →Shaw was three years old, Conrad two, and Oscar Wilde
and William Watson one. And in that same year, Darwin’s
“Origin of Species,” a book greatly significant for the think-
Read full poem →Yonder in that chapel, slowly sinking now into the
ground,
Read full poem →madness, lust and spite,
Roaring London, raving Paris, in that point of
Read full poem →The burden of sad sayings. In that day
Thou shalt tell all thy days and hours, and tell
Read full poem →In that hour thou shalt say to the night,
Come down and cover us;
Read full poem →Till the wine-press be trod;
In that hour ye shall turn and beseech me,
Saith the Lord God.
Read full poem →For in that heaven what light of lights may be,
What splendour of what stars, what spheres of flame