Example sentences for: partly

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

  • They were written two decades ago, when the vernacular used by many blacks in America's inner cities and the rural South was receiving its first round of national attention, partly as a result of influential works of scholarship such as J.L.

  • Just under a decade ago, I did a TV special with Simon that was filmed partly at his office in the Brill Building.

  • Our presidents and prime ministers have never had such problems, partly because they are almost always Christian Democrats, or at any rate very Catholic, at least in words, and partly because they are almost always ugly and old and shadowed by energetic wives who do not permit them any distractions, or they are widowers pledged to chastity."

  • We could never get away with paying neighborhood baby sitters (or local unlicensed day-care centers) such ridiculously low rates if their child-care techniques didn't partly involve plopping the kids in front of the TV.

  • Her dislike of FDR was based partly on economic policy.


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