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and so

adv. subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right"; "first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the late movie and then went to bed"; "and so home and to bed" [syn: then, so, and then]

Usage examples of "and so".

Hoss had been one of Seth's favorites before Tak came to stay inside him, and so now he was one of Tak's favorites, too.

The one in the lead is candy pink and so streamlined it looks to Johnny like a giant Good & Plenty with polarized windows.

The ceiling and the floor were a featureless dull gray, and so were all the walls except one, which glowed white, illuminating the little room.

Instantly, Kirk found himself paralyzed and so, evidently, was the rest of the "rescue" party.

A dozen alternatives chased through his mind, and so many of them must be wrong and so few of them offered anything to pin much to.

He had had very little leisure for thinking, and so it was a moment or two before he realised that this was not the comeback of the tall bony partner.

Do you really know who all your villains arewhat it's all about, and who's doing everything, and so on?

We have successfully scanned and stored the brain of a dog, and so far as we can tell, none of its functions is impaired.

Images of wartime London were still vivid in his mind, and so was his panic at finding himself paralyzed, watching his world and his memories disintegrate.

He was still fully conscious, and so far as he could tell there had been no interruption, no downtime.

A captain needs information not only to support his operating thesis, but more importantly information that tests it, information that disagrees with it, and so forces the consideration of the problem from as many different perspectives as can be perceived.

The problem was, he told himself, deliberate caution at every stepit made the whole process seem so plodding and so frustrating.

Part of it was that several years of drought and famine had exhausted the resources of the developing nations, and part of it was that with the widespread growth of fusion power, hydrogen-, methane-, and alcohol-fuels, plus assorted other sources like biomass, geothermal, wind-power, ocean current-turbines, and so onall in addition to solar energythe world's appetite for oil had dropped dramatically.

And our ancestors wanted to be the first generation to live on a new world, they would not accept the Captain's assessment that the world was uninhabitable, and so was born the rebellion.

It was to that day's love and brightness that she fled, and so far it had given her succor and shelter.