Example sentences for: chiefly

How can you use “chiefly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clearly, this rosily checkered past was soon to be replaced, chiefly, it seems, as Judeo-Christian-Islamic-Confucian-Buddhist cultures flourished.

  • To the west is Bahía de Bariay, which has a monument claiming Columbus’s landing (a fact contested chiefly by Baracoa, farther east).

  • The American Heritage dictionary says that bumfuzzle , apparently used chiefly in the southern United States, means "to confuse," and probably derives from some combination of "bamboozle," "fuddle," and "fuzzy."

  • (Remember, Homo sapiens lived side by side with Neanderthals for many thousands of years, and we differed from them chiefly in the face.)

  • , His peccadillos are well known to his wife, The plan was well thought out , or, if they end in - ly in any position, they are two words, as in That is chiefly British usage, this usage is chiefly American.


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