Example sentences for: principal

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

  • I assumed at first that this was some variant of the "principal business or professional activity code" that free-lancers are required to enter on federal Schedule C (where you report "business profits").

  • The target of the rioters' wrath was not primarily the Kurd's principal foe Turkey, but mostly Greek and Kenyan embassies throughout Europe, because Ocalan was in Kenya under the protection of Greek diplomats when he was seized.

  • Given that the English language is the world's principal form of communication, we can perhaps be forgiven for tripping ourselves up with it occasionally.

  • The company portrays Big Brother as the principal threat not just to Microsoft, but to free enterprise, consumer choice, and prosperity.

  • The musician who first set this pace was the ex-Nazi Herbert von Karajan, who in the late 1950s was simultaneously principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, and the Salzburg festival.


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