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Example sentences for "consists chiefly"

  • The Muschelkalk consists chiefly of a compact, greyish limestone, but includes beds of dolomite in many places, together with gypsum and rock-salt.

  • It consists chiefly of carbon, and is universally regarded as of vegetable origin.

  • HOW AND WHERE THE GODS LIVED If we look to the employment of the gods, we find that it consists chiefly in pleasant idleness; though they endeavor, like the rich among mankind, to make time fly by indulging in their favorite pastimes.

  • It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide, lime, and yttria.

  • Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain.

  • It consists chiefly of the carbonate of potassium, and is white.

  • It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.

  • It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

  • It consists chiefly, as we have said, in enabling the child by regular practice to arrive at such a command of the mental faculties, and the powers of articulation, as qualifies him to exercise both apparently at the same moment.

  • When that portion which we have retained is carefully examined, we find that it consists chiefly of the more prominent features of the narrative, with perhaps here and there occasional groupings of isolated circumstances.

  • The Molasse, in the neighbourhood of the mountains, consists chiefly of conglomerates and sandstones, and the Flysch consists of sandstones and shales; but the Molasse is of Miocene and Oligocene age, while the Flysch is mainly Eocene.

  • The Trias of the Eastern Alps, on the other hand, consists chiefly of great masses of limestone with an abundant fauna, and is clearly of marine origin.

  • The literature concerning the Royal Academy consists chiefly of pamphlets and articles of more or less ephemeral value.

  • Amygdaloid benzoin consists chiefly of white pieces, becoming, later on, brownish, of a waxy lustre and imbedded in a lustrous brown-red resinous mass.

  • It consists chiefly of a rigid odorless body to which the liquid odoriferous oil adheres.

  • Like cinnamon oil, it consists chiefly of cinnamaldehyde, but contains no eugenol, and hence can be readily distinguished from Ceylon oil by the above-mentioned reaction.


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