chiefly

[ˈtʃiːfli]

Definition:
1. For the most part.

Use 'chiefly' in a sentence:

1. It was Pan he wanted, Pan and Wendy and their band, but chiefly Pan.
2. Stone Contour extraction and defect detection is the chiefly step and key process.
3. Founded in 1985, ZTE chiefly makes networking gear, rather than phones.
4. This inhibiting effect was due chiefly to the concentration of combined nitrogen.
5. The houses in my hometown were chiefly composed of wood.
6. Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society.
7. But Mr Annan is not solely, or even chiefly, responsible for these failures.
8. The traditional compensation chiefly adopted analog control system.
9. He values the vase chiefly for its associations.
10. The black hair comes chiefly from Britany.
11. Brooks: I was chiefly surprised that they could become so cheap.
12. His response to attacks on his work was chiefly bewilderment.
13. A man's success depends chiefly on himself.
14. The man chiefly responsible for the German forward units was General Hasso Baron von Manteuffel, who commanded the Third Panzer Army.
15. Rice is grown chiefly in the south.
16. While Pierre Curie devoted himself chiefly to the physical study of the new radiations, Marie Curie struggled to obtain pure radium in the metallic state.
17. He's travelled widely, chiefly in Africa and Asia.
18. Production techniques, and market demand of acrylic sheets are chiefly introduced.
19. A continent lying chiefly within the Antarctic Circle and asymmetrically centered on the South Pole.
20. At the time, kindred were linked together chiefly through the band of their maternity.
21. Some manifestations of the market, chiefly sociological, have been recorded, but it is only just beginning to be the subject of organized consumer research and promotion.
22. The restriction and supervision of power chiefly consist in institutional construction and system innovation.
23. The so-called "lead" in a pencil is not lead at all, but chiefly a different form of carbon called graphite.
24. My interest in him chiefly centres in his quick mind.
25. The good little mouse didn't know that there were also flying cats and thus does our pride chiefly rest on ignorance.
26. What we think we know derives chiefly from archeological evidence, which is before writing--mute evidence that has to be interpreted and is very complicated.
27. The OED defines LOL as an interjection "used chiefly in electronic communications… to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement".
28. Group mental educational activity chiefly shows the mental training activity and mental adjustment activity.
29. For the second point; the causes and motives of anger, are chiefly three.
30. Europe's single market needs defending chiefly because it is so ambitious.
31. Apollonius is chiefly noted for his work on conic sections.
32. Indeed, Iran is chiefly responsible for these ghastly data.
33. He joined the consular service in China, chiefly because this was one of the few job vacancies.
34. Article 9 Local audit institutions at various levels shall be responsible and report on their work to the people's governments at the corresponding levels and to the audit institutions at the next higher levels, and their audit work shall be directed chiefly by the audit institutions at the next higher levels.
35. Until now the euro crisis has chiefly been about pressure from the markets.
36. The paper chiefly introduces application of expansive soil in freeway project.
37. The score was chiefly influenced by student characteristics and teacher characteristics.
38. Summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.
39. Note: This article chiefly addresses online transaction processing [OLTP] access.
40. It is chiefly because he is too impatient.
41. The World Cup is also chiefly responsible for sleep deprivation.
42. He joined the consular service, chiefly because this was one of the few job vacancies.
43. In 1955 Pope Pius XII authorized a rubrical revision, chiefly concerned with the calendar.
44. Although she is remembered today chiefly for her innovations in stage lighting, her activities also touched Isadora Duncan and Ruth St.
45. Air consists chiefly of nitrogen.
46. The materials chiefly used in modern papermaking are cotton or linen rags and wood pulp.
47. Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.
48. System analysis chiefly consists of needs analysis and feasible analysis.
49. It relies chiefly on mineral export.
50. Cattle feed chiefly on grass.
51. They drew the material of their plays chiefly from myths and legends.
52. We are chiefly concerned with improving educational standards.
53. The arch was used by the early cultures of the Mediterranean area chiefly for underground drains, but it was the Romans who first developed and used the arch extensively in aboveground structures.