Example sentences for: chiefly

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

  • and chiefly U.S.,” but Australia had taken it up by 1968, and there was no more appropriate word at hand in 1982 when a journalist for England's Listener wrote, “Perhaps we have all been corrupted by the telethons of Vietnam television reporting.”

  • It was a time when those attending the meetings, chiefly Jan Collins, who was managing director, the company's attorney, and I were trying to arrive at a viable budget for the preparation and publication of what was to become the Collins English Dictionary .

  • The manipulative sexpot Angela, who taunts her friend Jane with the idea of seducing her dad, acts chiefly out of a terror of appearing ordinary.

  • It is undertaken prior to testing the effects of the program, chiefly, however, as an indicator of appropriate evaluation design.

  • Also, the exposition of medical ideas about melancholia relies chiefly on the contribution of William Battie; the two Scotsmen, William Cullen and Robert Whytt, deserve equal billing for their contributions toward mid-18th century ideas on melancholia.


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