Sentence examples for were virtually universal from inspiring English sources

Reciprocating steam engines (powered by a piston moving up and down a cylinder) were virtually universal until the invention of the steam turbine in the 1880s.

Cynicism about condoms is virtually universal.

Registration of security interests is virtually universal.

This concept is virtually universal in computers today.

Slavery was virtually universal but varied in its incidence.

Marriage is virtually universal, divorce rare, and virtually every marriage produces children.

Today, however, there is virtually universal agreement that our immigration process is broken.

In Japan, land shortage and the high cost of property mean cremation is virtually universal.

English is virtually universal among second-generation immigrants today, which wasn't the case a century ago.

The three then teamed up on a 2013 Science study showing the link between climate and violence is virtually universal around the world and throughout history.

In the language of the survey, "The practice of female circumcision is virtually universal among women of reproductive age in Egypt".