Use mainly in a sentence
Sentences starting with mainly
- Mainly we were well scattered, but when Paris fell we happened to be together. [5]
- Mainly we laid on our backs and talked; we didn't want to go to sleep. [5]
- Mainly it consisted of an urgent desire that you come to see us next week, if you can possibly manage it, for that will be a reposeful time, the turmoil of breaking up beginning the week after. [5]
- Mainly they were drinking--from entire ox horns; but a few were still munching bread or gnawing beef bones. [5]
- Mainly the preparations are purchases of bedding. [5]
- Mainly the latter. [5]
- Mainly that. [5]
Sentences ending with mainly
- I wonder what she said; seemed to be swearing, mainly. [5]
- One of these old gentlemen told me some things of interest afterward; things about the aboriginals, mainly. [5]
- That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. [5]
- I don't remember it among the figures from Michel Angelo, which seem to have been her patterns mainly. [6]
- Strictly described, it is a practicing of difficult and unpleasant intervals, mainly. [5]
- The few existing books were in the Latin tongue mainly. [5]
Short sentences using mainly
- This was mainly a joke. [5]
Sentences containing mainly two or more times
- To these new champions and this new system of tactics our late success is mainly owing, and to them we must mainly look for the final consummation. [7]
More example sentences with the word mainly in them
- It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
- In the cares which Mrs. March shared with her husband that night she was supported partly by principle, but mainly by the potent excitement which bewildered Conrad's family and took all reality from what had happened. [8]
- During the years which immediately followed his departure from college, Warner led the somewhat desultory and apparently aimless life of many American graduates whose future depends upon their own exertions and whose choice of a career is mainly determined by circumstances. [4]
- There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. [5]
- For the source whence the Thug tales mainly came was a Government Report, and without doubt was not republished in America; it was probably never even seen there. [5]
- The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
- What that life was, however, she had only the dimmest comprehension, and it was only in the last two years, since she was sixteen, that she began to understand it, and that mainly in contrast to her own guarded life. [4]
- The interesting fact was that she was obliged to judge this world according to the standards of literature, morals, and manners that had been implanted in her mainly by the influence of one person. [4]
- But as I was saying, we'd got all the work done now, at last; and we was all pretty much fagged out, too, but mainly Jim. [5]
- But her husband was rough on me--many times he was rough on me--and mainly he was the justice of the peace that jugged me for a vagrant. [5]
- That the education was mainly left to McDonald, and that her parents were simply anxious about her safety, she did not learn till long afterwards. [4]
- Hitherto Warner's repute was mainly confined to the inhabitants of a provincial capital and its outlying and dependent towns. [4]
- There was the usual division of the scholars into a first and second set, according to the social position, mainly depending upon the fortune, of the families to which they belonged. [6]
- The weapon mainly used was the bayonet, the fighting was desperate. [5]
- These were down under the castle's foundations, and mainly were small cells hollowed out of the living rock. [5]
- He has built two or three breeds of American coquettes out of anecdotes-- mainly "biased" ones, I suppose; and, as they occur "in literature," furnished by his pen, they must be "all libelous. [5]
- We took a turn to Rome and some other Italian cities --then to Munich, and thence to Paris--partly for exercise, but mainly because these things were in our projected program, and it was only right that we should be faithful to it. [5]
- The American Board's trade is financed mainly from the graveyards. [5]
- Tom was introduced to the Judge; but his tongue was tied, his breath would hardly come, his heart quaked--partly because of the awful greatness of the man, but mainly because he was her parent. [5]
- He awoke, too, to some of the social gaieties about him, and found pleasure in the things that in the hour of his gloom had seemed mainly mockery. [5]
- She mainly writes to hurry me home and to tell me how much she respects me: but she's generally pretty slow on news. [5]
- Leaving her mainly to herself, she could be to some extent indirectly influenced,--not otherwise. [6]
- Yet he seems to have been mainly intent upon society and the amusements of the passing hour, and, without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity, he yielded to the temptations of indolence, and settled into the unpromising position of a "man about town. [4]
- I take Clara to Berlin for the winter-music, mainly, with German and French added. [5]
- This was partly through his winning and gentle ways, but mainly through the amazing familiarity with my books which his conversation showed. [5]
- Being awake, my thoughts were busy, of course; and mainly they busied themselves with Sandy's curious delusion. [5]
- The lawsuits of those days were extremely simple, and the principles of natural justice were mainly relied on to dispose of them at the Bar and on the Bench, without resort to technical learning. [7]
- The result of this universal demand for fiction is necessarily an enormous supply, and as everybody writes, without reference to gifts, the product is mainly trash, and trash of a deleterious sort; for bad art in literature is bad morals. [4]
- His letters of this period were mainly written to his old friend Twichell, in Hartford. [5]
- The virtue of the world is not mainly in its leaders. [6]
- The architecture of the town was mainly Spanish, inherited from the colonists of two hundred and fifty years ago. [5]
- Apparently, nearly all the river towns, big and little, have made up their minds that they must look mainly to railroads for wealth and upbuilding, henceforth. [5]
- It is mainly the repetition over and over again, by the third-rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. [5]
- Fulkerson, while breaking the ice for the whole company, was mainly engaged in keeping Colonel Woodburn thawed out. [8]
- It seems that the heavy work in the quarries and the new railway gradings is done mainly by Italians. [5]
- The subject of the chat, mainly, was one which I think we had not exploited before--steamboat disasters. [5]
- In the Homes the battered veterans speak mainly of one thing; and in the monotony of their spent lives develop whimseys and rights and wrongs, patriotic ardors and criticisms on their singular fate, which are original in their character in our society. [4]
- It so happens that those which follow were mainly intended for the divinity-student and the school-mistress; though others, whom I need not mention, saw to interfere, with more or less propriety, in the conversation. [6]
- Its population, like that of most respectable suburbs, must belong mainly to the kind of citizens which resembles in many ways the better class,--as we sometimes dare to call it,--of one of our thriving New England towns. [6]
- The question of supreme interest to us, therefore, is whether the social order implied in the British program is mainly in the nature of a development of, or a break with, the Anglo-Saxon democratic tradition. [9]
- I will cull some details of it from trustworthy sources mainly from "Russell's Natal. [5]
- That night we smoked the tranquil pipe, and talked till late about various things, but mainly about her; and certainly I had had no such pleasant and restful time for many a day. [5]
- All the house showed excitement; and mainly it was glad excitement. [5]
- He was now serving his apprenticeship in our grand uncle's business, and whereas the traffic was mainly with Venice he was to learn the Italian tongue with all diligence. [10]
- Life seems a serious thing, what I have seen of it--and my observation teaches me that it is made up mainly of hiccups, unnecessary washings, and colic. [5]
- As he now saw nothing which was happening upon the rope, he had probably also failed to heed what she had performed, dared, accomplished, mainly for his sake, at the peril of her life, on the dizzy height. [10]
- They say he 's the rising talent in his line, architecture mainly, but has done some remarkable things in the way of sculpture. [6]
- But mainly, I reckon, I'd set store by a south exposure. [5]
- There were forty pupils there--a few of them farmers, relearning their trade, the rest young men mainly from the cities--novices. [5]
- The era of political domination by a corporation, and mainly for the benefit of a corporation, is over. [9]
- Use your own pleasure about it --I mainly (that is honest,) suggest it because I am seeking to make matters pleasant for you and Mrs. Howells. [5]
- On the wooded plain at the summit of the Kolm, a mountain which belonged mainly to the institute, war was waged during the summer every Saturday evening until far into the night, whenever the weather was fine, which does not happen too often in Thuringia. [10]
- He had some pathetic little nickel-plated aristocratic instincts, and detested his name, which was Dunlap; detested it, partly because it was nearly as common in that region as Smith, but mainly because it had a plebeian sound to his ear. [5]
- Usually merely a part of a boat's company survive--officers, mainly, and other educated and tenderly-reared men, unused to hardship and heavy labour; the untrained, roughly-reared hard workers succumb. [5]
- But mainly we owe the large license of speech we enjoy to those influences and privileges common to us all as self-governing Americans. [3]
- This is in order to enable our members to prepare what they may wish to say upon the subject with pen and paper, for we are mainly mechanics and unaccustomed to speaking. [5]
- Bristol is mainly one long street, with some good stores, but generally shabby, and on this hot morning sleepy. [4]
- Still another class of Union men, mainly in the East, gravely shook their heads when considering the question whether Lincoln should be re-elected. [7]
- But mainly, think of the exasperation of never knowing which of these meanings the speaker is trying to convey. [5]
- Before the day of the Church's supremacy in the world, men were men, and held their heads up, and had a man's pride and spirit and independence; and what of greatness and position a person got, he got mainly by achievement, not by birth. [5]
- I see people of my standing really good for nothing, decrepit, effete, la levre inferieure deja pendante, with what little life they have left mainly concentrated in their epigastrium. [6]
- With the exception of Louisiana, which was absolutely ignorant of American literature and drew its inspiration and assumed its critical point of view almost wholly from the French, the South was English, but mainly English of the time of Walter Scott and George the Third. [4]
- I was boss of it; it all belonged to me, so to say, and I wanted to know all about it; but mainly I wanted to put in the time. [5]
- Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended. [1]
- It comes mainly of business responsibilities and annoyances, and the persecution of kindly letters from well meaning strangers--to whom I must be rudely silent or else put in the biggest half of my time bothering over answers. [5]
- This roof was of ancient mud-colored straw thatch a foot thick, and was covered all over, except in a few trifling spots, with a thriving and luxurious growth of green vegetation, mainly moss. [5]
- But this is not the case when the fishermen return home, for then it appears that they have been dealing mainly with muskallonge, and with bass by the way. [4]
- The conversation was not cheerful; it was mainly ejaculatory. [4]
- But mainly the noise of the town was hushed, and in the sharp air the stars, far off and uncontaminated, glowed with a pure lustre. [4]
- It makes more noise now than it ever did before--and mainly at night. [5]
- Smith's connection with New England is very slight, and mainly that of an author, one who labored for many years to excite interest in it by his writings. [4]
- In the beginning, Mrs. Eddy was probably interested merely in the mental-healing detail, and perhaps mainly interested in it pecuniary, for she was poor. [5]
- It was through Mr. Blank--not to go into particulars about his name--it was mainly through Mr. Blank that my stay in Bendigo was made memorably pleasant and interesting. [5]
- It was not merely their significance, it was mainly because they were spoken at the fitting time. [6]
- He wrote not many letters and mainly somber ones. [5]
- The notice was mainly personal--the first work of a brilliant young man at the bar who was destined to go high in his profession, unless literature should, fortunately for the public, have stronger attractions for him. [4]
- Our thoughts are mainly on how to increase the products of the world; and get them into our own possession. [4]
- His pharmacopoeia consisted mainly of simples, such as the venerable "Herball" of Gerard describes and figures in abounding affluence. [3]
- I read aloud: mainly imaginary accounts of people snatched from the grave's threshold and restored to life and vigor by a few spoonsful of liquor and a warm bath. [5]
- What I am mainly hoping for, is to save my royalties. [5]
- The country was mainly governed by a ministry which went out with the administration that created it. [5]
- His work was mainly done aside from that of the delegation. [5]
- I will talk mainly about that one. [5]
- The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort; the shops are packed with Alpine crystals, photographs of scenery, and wooden and ivory carvings. [5]
- Besides, those who lose through me are mainly dukes, counts, and gentlemen with rich fiefs and fat bourgs, whom losing doubtless benefits, as bleeding relieves a sick man. [10]
- There was a little talk about the country and the city at this season, mainly sustained by Miss Forsythe and Henderson, and then he was left alone. [4]
- Clemens wrote very little for publication that year, but he enjoyed writing for his own amusement, setting down the things that boiled, or bubbled, within him: mainly chapters on the inconsistencies of human deportment, human superstition and human creeds. [5]
- The series of letters which follows was prepared by Mark Twain and General Fred Grant, mainly with a view of advertising the lecture that Clemens had agreed to deliver for the benefit of the Robert Fulton Monument Association. [5]
- People laugh at it mainly because they think the student is so covered up with armor that he cannot be hurt. [5]
- At a distance it looks like an endless grave of fine sand, accurately shaped and nicely smoothed; but close by, it is found to be made mainly of rough boulders of all sizes, from that of a man's head to that of a cottage. [5]
- No, the lament is mainly for what he is to leave behind him. [5]
- Simplicity in literature is mainly a matter of clear vision and lucid expression, however complex the subject-matter may be; exactly as in life, simplicity does not so much depend upon external conditions as upon the spirit in which one lives. [4]
- That consummate artist in passion allowed him to believe that the fascination was mainly on his side, and so worked upon his vanity, while inflaming his ardor, that he scarcely knew what he was about. [5]
- Of the high importance of the intellectual faculties there can be no doubt, for man mainly owes to them his predominant position in the world. [1]
- Potter has no imagination, and no great deal of culture, perhaps, but he has a historical mind and a good memory, and so he is the person I depend upon mainly to post me up when I get back from a scout. [5]
- The best practitioner I ever knew was mainly shaped to excellence in that way. [3]
- General anatomy, or histology, on the other hand, is almost all new; it has grown up, mainly, since I began my medical studies. [3]
- It is, therefore, highly probable that with mankind the intellectual faculties have been mainly and gradually perfected through natural selection; and this conclusion is sufficient for our purpose. [1]
- He ought to have staid longer in this little paradise--partly for his own sake, but mainly for mine. [5]
- Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, mainly because Denisov so delighted in her singing. [2]
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