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Example sentences for "main"

Lexicographically close words:
mailman; mails; maim; maimed; maiming; maina; mainboom; maindeck; mainframe; mainland
  1. This position is formed at the end of main play of both positions given in eleventh easy lesson, as well as of main play in the position on the first diagram above.

  2. At R two inches from the line E F a similar hole should penetrate the deck for the main mast.

  3. The lamp is the main feature of the apparatus, and it is represented in section in Fig.

  4. The filtrate from the silica is then added to the main filtrate from the insoluble residue.

  5. Clean the crucible and lid by means of a little hydrochloric acid, adding this acid to the main solution (Notes 4 and 5).

  6. The stirring rod should be washed to prevent transfer of indicator to the main solution.

  7. The subsequent addition of the two acids to the main portion of the precipitate restores the chlorine to any chloride which may have been partially reduced by the sunlight.

  8. The oxalic acid and the oxalates should be specially prepared to insure purity, the main difficulty lying in the preservation of the water of crystallization.

  9. This slowly unites with the main body of liquid, but requires an appreciable time.

  10. If the presence of copper is indicated, add the test portion to the main solution, evaporate the whole to a volume of about 100 cc.

  11. The main character is a dreaming and poetic boy who takes joy in all the stories and superstitions of his people, and his experience and life are thus made to reflect all the essential qualities of the life of his country.

  12. But somebody will tell me before long, so there is no use worrying about that--the main point is, have I been touched?

  13. But when we come to construct, it will be found that in synthesis the distracting number of small parts will disappear, to coalesce and form the few main principles on which either a sermon or a watch is built.

  14. Side note: Movere] What is the main weapon of the orator?

  15. Kenrick and Cardinal Gibbons go so far as to say that the neglect of the Irish priest in preparing his emigrating flock, is the main source of leakage in the American Church.

  16. Side note: The Points to Fix on] In dealing with the drink question his main purpose should be to purify public opinion.

  17. When the stream of air has passed the chords it is already accompanied by the vibrations of the chest, but the head is the main contributor.

  18. Intermarriage among these, intermingling of enfeebled and tainted blood is one of the main contributory causes why the walls of our asylums are enlarging.

  19. He will swerve from the main line to pursue them: the tendency to chase the fresh hare can scarcely be resisted.

  20. The lane rejoined the main road about half a mile back.

  21. The guide led me to an attractive cottage to one side of the main building.

  22. We led Peg up the steep incline, back into the lane where I had strayed, and at length we reached the main road again.

  23. We had been walking slowly, and had not yet reached the spot where the lane branched from the main road.

  24. I knew that they stretched all along the main road, so plainly I had made a mistake.

  25. I want to keep it away from Andrew and that's the main thing.

  26. Oliver walked uphill to the main street, unsure why he had come.

  27. From there, the path turned eastward, following the shore to the beach and to the main parking lot, closed at that time of year.

  28. I like your Jeep," Francesca said when they reached the main road.

  29. He stretched and walked to the main road, taking the track along the rocks and then though the woods.

  30. The cashier pointed to a barred room within the main room.

  31. This place is situated at the foot of the lesser Carpathians, and is easily reached from the main line of the railway.

  32. This is one of the main dangers in climbing the peak itself, for from base to summit, the Matterhorn is really a decaying mountain, the stones rolling away through the action of the storms, the frosts, and the sun.

  33. But the main peculiarity of this amphitheater is that it lies on the slope of a hill, which thus supplied a natural basement for the seats on one side only.

  34. In a building of the size of Chambord the result of this treatment is hardly satisfactory, for the lines of the wings to right and left of the main body seem to droop away from the heavy towers on either side.

  35. But the intention of the work is wholly foreign to the main direction taken by the new movement, and condemned, by its very nature, to remain, in spite of the wonderful genius lavished upon it, an unfruitful tour de force.

  36. An affirmative decision precludes all further debate on the main question.

  37. The main purpose of the writer is to prevent mistakes in the choice of a profession.

  38. The effect of a negative decision, unless otherwise determined by a special rule, is to leave the main question and all amendments just as it found them.

  39. Its form is, "Shall the main question now be put?

  40. The main body of troops waited in their boats by the edge of the strand.

  41. More rarely, they carried their goods on horses to the upper waters of the Ohio, and embarked them in large wooden canoes, in which they descended the main river, and ascended such of its numerous tributaries as were navigable.

  42. The main difficulty was to make him write a good hand,--a point in which he signally failed to the day of his death.

  43. Therefore the plan was changed, and Dieskau was ordered to lead the main body of his troops, not to Lake Ontario, but to Lake Champlain.

  44. He was ordered to watch the shore as far as Jacques-Cartier, and follow with his main body every movement of Holmes's squadron.

  45. Knox came over from the main camp, and says that he had "a most agreeable view of the city of Quebec.

  46. It was but a confirmation of what had already been learned from deserters and prisoners, who declared that the main fort was but a loopholed wall held by six or seven hundred men, ill fed, discontented, and mutinous.

  47. Murray was to ascend the St. Lawrence from Quebec, while Brigadier Haviland forced an entrance by way of Lake Champlain, and Amherst himself led the main army down the St. Lawrence from Lake Ontario.

  48. The question was whether an effort should be made to dislodge Wolfe's main force.

  49. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apenines to the east.

  50. But here the main agents were ugly birds, or snakes, or crocodiles, especially the last.

  51. They held counsel together what was to be done, and agreed that the main thing was to keep quiet and adjust the whole affair secretly.

  52. Dick, who lives out in one of the houses off the main street of the village, had two sons.

  53. In all the main matters of life everybody must care for himself, and every commune for itself, and not you lords and gentlemen.

  54. Be strict with them: that's the main point," said the old gentleman, repairing the damage with the hoe.

  55. The main cause of this was the old squire's[2] new hand who had come into the village last harvest.

  56. There are in it two episodes or fables, which are interwoven with the main design, so that they are properly parts of it, though they are also distinct stories of themselves.

  57. My friend has in this work shewn himself a master, and made not only the characters of the play, but also the furniture of the house contribute to the main design.

  58. A division of a part of his land into building lots, on the main road from Herdecke to Hagen, also swelled the volume of his increasing revenue.

  59. It was a pretty swift canter, and the two had flown over a good deal of ground before Rollo drew bridle again on coming out into the main road.

  60. One of the main features of Piero's art was his accurate knowledge of perspective.

  61. Only remember, you cross the park and leave by the north gate, not the main entrance by which we go to the railway station.

  62. I had ridden in, from a temporary overflow sort of place where we were dealing with the worst cases straight off the field, to the main hospital in the town for a fresh supply of chloroform.

  63. She has her crescendos, of course, and it is these which people are most apt to remember, but the extraordinary force of these crescendos comes from the smooth and level manner in which the main part of the speaking is done.

  64. How magnificently he interprets, in the crucifixion of his own soul, the main riddles of the universe!

  65. Many actors treat verse as a slightly more stilted kind of prose, and their main aim in saying it is to conceal from the audience the fact that it is not prose.

  66. If we take drama with any seriousness, as an art as well as an improvisation, we shall realise that one of its main requirements is that it should make pictures.

  67. One of our main purposes in considering salvage operations was that of ascertaining the chief obstacles to salvage, so that we could provide the enemy with as many of those identical obstacles as lay in our power.

  68. Thus, speaking generally, the personnel of the main fleet at the outbreak of war were only there because they were considered to be deserving of a place on the efficiency roll.

  69. Both harbours were open to bombardment from the sea; that reason, more than any other, probably influenced the Germans to use Bruges for their main base.

  70. The embodiment of the main principles of fighting led to success on that occasion as they will usually do under similar conditions.

  71. That Flanders was also suitable for aircraft bases is as well known as it is obvious; but it may not be generally understood that such aircraft would also be of special value to the main fleet under the conditions stated above.

  72. The sequel is worth recording even if it {125} necessitates anticipating the main story.

  73. Thus it was clear that demolition should only be prepared for and undertaken provided that it did not hinder the attainment of our main object in the smallest particular.

  74. Subsequent to the operation, many of the public appeared to have formed the idea that the attack on the Mole was the main attack, and that the use of the blockships was a sort of afterthought.

  75. Sidenote: Summary of Obstacles] We have now arrived at the stage where we can make a summary of the main obstacles in the way of a blocking enterprise at Zeebrugge.

  76. Vindictive for carrying the main portion of the storming parties.

  77. In recounting the preparations which followed naturally upon the main considerations connected with the problem in hand there has been a certain amount of unavoidable anticipation.

  78. At the same time the distinction gives rise to a division within the main problem.

  79. This answer to the main problem, given in outline in the Preface, is undeniably plausible.

  80. We may now turn to the first of the two main points to be considered, viz.

  81. The third and last main difficulty of the first kind concerns the relation of the elements of the manifold and the kinds of synthesis by which they are combined.

  82. The first two points established, Kant is able to develop his main thesis, viz.

  83. In the second place, the change of standpoint only saves the main problem from being absurd by rendering it insoluble.

  84. As has been pointed out, Kant's argument falls into two main parts, one of which prepares the way for the other.

  85. This system, which it was in vain attempted to establish in Europe during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, was in its main features that which prevailed in the Germanic Empire from the fourteenth century onwards.

  86. It had two main objects: the enforcement of celibacy, especially on the secular clergy, who enjoyed in this respect considerable freedom, and the extinction of simony.

  87. The {22} first, and by far the largest, portion deals with Lower Canada, as the main storm centre.

  88. Durham fancied that this question was now settled, and that he could proceed unhampered with his main task of reconstruction.

  89. The main point is that the baby is not here.

  90. The main idea was to find some secret cavity or cupboard in the wall which might contain the missing laces or other valuables.

  91. But you informed us that there is a good hotel here, on the main street.

  92. Upon his return down that main thoroughfare of the village not a person was to be seen.


  93. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "main" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arch; banner; basic; blue; broad; capital; central; champion; chief; cock; comprehensive; consequential; considerable; controlling; crazy; crowning; deep; dominant; drink; essential; exhaustive; first; focal; foremost; front; full; fundamental; grand; grave; great; head; headmost; heavy; highest; hydrosphere; intense; irresistible; key; lead; leading; magisterial; maiden; main; master; maximum; mighty; ocean; outstanding; overriding; overruling; paramount; peninsula; pipe; pipeline; plenary; powerful; predominant; preeminent; premier; preponderant; prevailing; primal; primary; prime; principal; prominent; ranking; ruling; sea; serious; sovereign; staple; star; stellar; strong; supereminent; supreme; tide; topmost; total; uppermost; very; essential; exhaustive; first; focal; foremost; front; full; fundamental; grand; grave; great; head; headmost; heavy; highest; hydrosphere; intense; irresistible; key; lead; leading; magisterial; maiden; main; master; maximum; mighty; ocean; outstanding; overriding; overruling; paramount; peninsula; pipe; pipeline; plenary; powerful; predominant; preeminent; premier; preponderant; prevailing; primal; primary; prime; principal; prominent; ranking; ruling; sea; serious; sovereign; staple; star; stellar; strong; supereminent; supreme; tide; topmost; total; uppermost; very


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    main army; main battery; main body; main crops; main force; main line; main lines; main object; main road; main strength; mainly from; maintain himself; maintain order; maintain peace; maintain the; maintain their; maintain them; maintain themselves