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Example sentences for "greater part"

  • How much of the pretended daring of innovators has been old trumpery which the wisdom of the times had cast off as rubbish.

  • For the present, we must confine ourselves to a view of the application of the historical method to Political Economy.

  • Without money, too, only ready commodities could be exchanged one against another.

  • Besides, the price of wood in the forest rises, with an advance in civilization, much more rapidly than it does in the market; in which last, labor and capital play a greater part.

  • As a consequence, the opposite leg is required to do the work of both, and if the animal persists in standing a greater part of the time it, too, becomes swollen.

  • The inside quarter is more liable to the injury than the outside, for the reason that this quarter is not only the thinner, but during locomotion receives a greater part of the weight of the body.

  • Later the patient has a lame spell which may last during a greater part of the day, but the next morning it is gone; he leaves the stable all right, but goes lame again during the day.

  • The Emperor had now lost the greater part of Bohemia, and the Saxons were advancing against Austria, while the Swedish monarch was rapidly moving to the same point through Franconia, Swabia, and Bavaria.

  • Prague for the education of the Lithuanian youth, and superintended the translation of the Holy Scriptures into Polish, writing with her own hands the greater part of the New Testament.

  • Winterbury is near the sea; and I had on more than one occasion spent the greater part of the night on the cliffs, watching the glorious moonlit effects upon the romantic coast scenery of that district.

  • Vermont, Georgia, Tennessee and New York supply the greater part of the marble used in the United States.

  • This memorable battle, resulting as it did in the defeat of the power which had conquered the greater part of the known world, first taught the Greeks their own strength and gave Athens a position in Greece which it had never yet held.

  • For fifty-seven years she has lived in Washington and has therefore witnessed the greater part of the growth and development of the commonwealth.

  • Four miles from the spring is the McElmo, a small stream, dry during a greater part of the year.

  • III-11] Some rapids occur in the Copan River below the ruins, but in the season of high water it is navigable for canoes for a greater part of its course.

  • Cases are met with in the human subject, as in the dog, in which the paroxysmal stage is omitted in greater part or entirely.

  • Wunderlich describes the case of a man who "on the second day of the disease lost both sensibility and motility in the lower limbs and over the greater part of the trunk, while his left arm also was partially paralyzed.

  • The religious and family bond of aggregation is the earlier of the two; but the political bond, though beginning later, will be found to acquire constantly increasing influence throughout the greater part of this history.

  • Greater part of this day Cloudy, wind moderate from the N.

  • A greater part of them--in effect," replied Challis.

  • President Kruger was present during the greater part of the battle, and with bitter chagrin saw the burghers streaming past him in retreat.

  • On October 29 White assumed the offensive with the greater part of his command, and endeavoured to cut through the still unconsolidated investing line and to thwart the co-operation of the allies.

  • The eastward front of the villa was occupied for the greater part of its length by a colonnade or corridor.

  • Now I have been among this people the greater part of my life.

  • He played a greater part in this world without his eyes than ever he had played with them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greater part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards became; ancient sculpture; greater amount; greater depth; greater detail; greater distance; greater good; greater importance; greater length; greater number; greater numbers; greater part; greater perfection; greater pleasure; greater share; greater speed; greater things; greater value; greater variety; last they; pink flowers; sexual gratification; small cottage; why should; will join; yellow ochre