Moreover, when your successors shall inherit your profits, and shall have further increased them, they shall not be valued higher to them than they are to you; and your successors shall not bear a greater portionof the public burdens.
During a greater portion of the day the wind, which blew furiously and incessantly, seemed possessed with a spirit of fierce disquiet and unrest.
So long had public justice delayed in liquidating these claims, that they had sunk to one sixth of their nominal value, and a greater portion of the paper was held by speculators.
Washington had spent a greater portion of the summer in the federal city, in close attention to public duties; but for six weeks previous to the assembling of the national legislature he remained in the seclusion of Mount Vernon.
E, serving to prevent the sag and to cause the belt on the driving side to envelop a greater portion of the pulley's circumference, and hence increase its friction on the pulley and therefore its driving power.
He served his country during a greater portion of the war, and was finally captured by the English and pressed into their naval service, in which he lost a leg.
Having marched a greater portion of the preceding night, the troops were much exhausted by fatigue and want of sleep.
The bridge, a greater portion of both rails, and nearly everything on deck was missing, while the wreckage along shore explained where the top-hammer had gone.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greater portion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
