Synonym: all in all, altogether, tout ensemble. Similar words: on the contrary, the White House, whole, in the way, as a whole, in the way of, in the world, cholesterol. Meaning: adv. with everything considered (and neglecting details).
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61. On the whole, the show is appealing, stimulating and marked by an admirable clarity of presentation.
62. On the whole it is all very polite and good-humoured.
63. Local people on the whole preferred a modern bungalow to a picturesque cottage.
64. For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing.
65. On the whole these troubles were less severe with powered aircraft than they were with gliders.
66. On the whole, the difference I described between child-cantered and cognitive nursery schools also pertain to kindergartens.
67. Our youngest daughter was hyperactive, and it had a damaging effect on the whole family.
68. True, local business is not entirely absent but on the whole, foreign operators have been the first to benefit.
69. On the whole, shares in privatized companies have underperformed the rest of the equity market.
70. Elton John is probably the best bloke on the whole planet.
71. On the whole, her father had had a very easy life of it, too easy.
72. On the whole, respondents did not favour the single coursebook in the way that courses in the United States do.
73. On the whole he preferred recorded music and the chance it gave for repeated hearings.
74. This it did in terms of the effect on the whole curriculum, and on individual subjects.
75. But on the whole, there is little evidence to suggest a link between male wage levels and fertility.
76. The railway bridge at this point represented the steepest gradient on the whole system at 1:16.
77. You are in effect trying to gain an overall perspective on the whole book or topic, as well as its constituent parts.
78. If this transpires then the emergence of fairness really will have a substantial effect on the whole area of procedural due process.
79. So, on the whole I am cautiously in favour of machines inspecting passports at great speed, a scheme experimentally working at Heathrow.
80. On the whole, I feel optimistic about the future of nature conservation because so many people are involved now.
81. On the whole it seems difficult to believe they are very important.
82. It is in these terms that an attack is often mounted on the whole idea of synonymy.
83. On the whole, though(sentencedict.com), the Norman producers are acting with sense and foresight over the development of their dairy industry.
84. On the whole, feminists throughout the period agreed that women were better suited by nature to home-related tasks than were men.
85. They have, on the whole, run fairly successful economies since the 1950s or since their accession to the Community.
86. On the whole, therefore, a rather crude kind of draughtsmanship is implied.
87. Driving standards on the whole improved during the eighties and certainly average speeds increased, in some cases dramatically.
88. On the whole, though, relatively short sentences offer the advantage of helping you to keep your writing clear and understandable.
88. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
89. On the whole, though, the cases in which covert taping of conversations plays a decisive part are few.
90. But on the whole he carries it off with brio and sensitivity.
More similar words: on the contrary, the White House, whole, in the way, as a whole, in the way of, in the world, cholesterol, hold on to, month, on the run, on the road, monthly, on the spot, on the side, on the table, on the grounds of, elsewhere, somewhat, chew, by the way, role, pole, sole, solely, violent, hold, molecule, tolerate, all over the world.