Play Milan and Lyon in an insignificant way

Usage examples of nominally.

He tumbled again, only nominally under control, shrieking incoherently around his beakful of stolen weapon.

There was disgust in her voice, nominally directed at the intruders, but Bink suspected part of it applied to him.

Her own husband was only nominally interested in sex and fell asleep after ejaculation whereas Nordstrom was a princely dallier who had obviously been well trained by his wife.

Regardless of being nominally grouped with the Leewards, Martinique dominated the windward position.

I was not nominally her partner for the mazurka, I did as a matter of fact dance nearly the whole time with her.

I speak for the provisional executive committee of the Uaian Order, and I inform you that a large group of Uldras from the Retent, nominally wards of the Mull, yesterday invaded our lands, specifically Morningswake Domain, and there committed acts of murder and vandalism.

Bellamy becomes Sir John Bellamy, nominally for his services as town-clerk of Roxham, and I hear that old Sir Percy is now perfectly rampant, and goes about cursing her ladyship up hill and down dale, and declaring that he has been shockingly taken-in.

After all, the robot nominally outranked everyone on the base except for General Blitzkrieg and his adjutant, neither of whom was likely to intervene.

General Gatacre was nominally in command of a division, but so cruelly had his men been diverted from him, some to Buller in Natal and some to Methuen, that he could not assemble more than a brigade.

Most flycatcher males are nominally monogamous, but many try to be polygynous, and quite a few succeed.

It was the skeleton, very delicately dissected and reassembled, of his potto, a rare and curious little West African creature, nominally one of the primates, though quiet, slow, harmless, and remarkably affectionate.

The front of the house alone was dressed with a handful of English servants nominally under the man Nogam, but actually, like him, answerable in the last instance to Shaik Tsin.

And the Bureau of Lands, nominally in charge of the public domain, was a helpless and unhonoured mess.

Though loyal to Washington and the administration, Adams was but nominally a Federalist, refusing steadfastly to be, or to be perceived as, a party man.

During the last twenty hours of the approach the Astrogator never left the control room, nor did anyone else other than for short periods when nominally off watch.