Example sentences for: chiefly

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

  • We have tried to keep deletions to a minimum, chiefly by not including marginal terms in the first place.

  • The foregoing is chiefly from the Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, E.G. Withycombe, Oxford University Press, 1947.

  • The centerpiece--the fighting--goes on for over an hour and features the most frantic and harrowing sequences, chiefly the company's initially unsuccessful frontal assault on a Japanese hilltop bunker.

  • The compound fuck-me intended to invite sexual advances, chiefly exemplified by fuck-me [shoes] (with various specific types of shoes), was only attested to 1989.

  • Because the first lady is obviously something of a freak in this day and age--a woman who is famous chiefly for being a wife; and in most cases, a woman whose life has been hideously warped by the fact that her spouse chose a career in politics.


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