Example sentences for: chiefly

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

  • For various reasons, I have chosen to comment on only certain aspects of this book, chiefly because a thorough review would occupy far more space in VERBATIM than many readers might willingly tolerate.

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

  • 3I) is chiefly expressed by the hepatic cells.

  • An entry on this or that ? would have been in order, chiefly to cover its usage as a pronoun or pronominal adjective of reference.

  • 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.”


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