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Example sentences for "chiefly composed"

  • Its food is chiefly composed of worms, insects, and grubs; but on the coast the bird picks up a variety of creatures from the sands.

  • The food of this bird is chiefly composed of beetles, worms, grubs, and grain.

  • The food of this Diver is chiefly composed of fish.

  • The food of this species is chiefly composed of small fish, but insects and crustaceans are also devoured.

  • It is chiefly composed of water and oil slightly oxygenated, and is convertible into oxalic and malic acids by farther oxygenation with the nitric acid.

  • The pyro-lignous radical is chiefly composed of hydrogen and charcoal.

  • If, on the contrary, the taper be instantly extinguished, we have strong reason to presume that the residuum is chiefly composed of azotic gas.

  • Chiefly composed of glassy felspar, with crystals of glassy felspar.

  • Lyme, with the ink-bags still distended, containing the ink in a dried state, chiefly composed of carbon, and but slightly impregnated with carbonate of lime.

  • It is chiefly composed of dry bamboo-leaves and a few twigs, and lined with black fibres and moss-roots.

  • The body of the nest is chiefly composed of leaves, some of which must have been green when used.

  • The nest is chiefly composed of these, intermingled with moss and roots, and is a large loose structure some 7 inches in diameter.

  • It is chiefly composed of carbonate of lime; when placed in muriatic acid it froths much, leaving a residue of sulphate of lime, and of an oxide of iron, together with a black powder, which is not soluble in heated acids.

  • Within this same crater, strata of coarse tuff, chiefly composed of fragments of lava, abut, like a consolidated talus, against the inside walls.

  • The coasting trade is chiefly composed of sloops, manned by two or three men and boys.

  • The French preceptor, an old Emigre Count, sat down with the examiners before the board, the visitors (chiefly composed of anxious papas and mammas) being seated on benches behind them.

  • The country on each side now is chiefly composed of variegated rolling prairies, with a less proportion of timber.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ammonium carbonate; been placed; chiefly applied; chiefly because; chiefly composed; chiefly found; chiefly known; chiefly used; clay color; coming over; dare say; farthest south; follow thee; great favorite; infinite wisdom; made only; mediaeval times; native church; often necessary; play cricket; protect their; rose water; that time; things present; who became; young marster