Example sentences for: partly

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

  • Subjects' weight, age, and height were transformed into natural logarithms, partly to reduce heteroscedasticity [ 16 ] . The coefficients of the explanatory variables in logarithms were thus the "elasticities" (percentage change in the dependent variable resulting from a 1% change in the independent variables).

  • The railroad retirement program is partly financed by an annual financial interchange that takes place between the Railroad Social Security Equivalent Benefit Account (a trust fund) and the trust funds for old-age and survivors insurance, disability insurance, and hospital insurance (OASDHI).

  • If he's an anti-Semite, should the editor who published his scholarly work and the colleagues who welcomed him into their professional association be held partly responsible for his ideas?

  • Sports writers mercilessly scrutinized Robinson's errors in the game (notably, getting burned on an 80 yard touchdown pass) and partly blamed the Falcons' sloppy performance (several muffed touchdown opportunities and four second-half turnovers) on the attendant dismay and distraction.

  • The fault lies partly in the difficulty in securing funding for proper studies in the area; on the other hand, one cannot help feeling that studies that have been done could have been better conceived and organized.


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