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Example sentences for "principally"

Lexicographically close words:
principalities; principality; principall; principallest; principallie; principalmente; principals; principalship; principate; principatus
  1. They play an important part in political economy from Adam Smith to Ricardo, but here they are so far unequal that they follow different trades, principally hunting and fishing, and they exchange their mutual products.

  2. It lies on the Bay of Aboukir, not far from Alexandria, and was notorious for its luxury and debauchery, carried on principally in the temple of Serapis.

  3. He evidently alludes to the versions of the second and eighth Satires by Tate and Stepney, but principally to the latter, in which Juvenal illustrates his argument by the practice of Smithfield and Newmarket!

  4. Chinese art surprises one principally on account of its force and of the originating power manifested by it.

  5. It is the ground which produces everything that is necessary for life, and it is the ground, also, which is taxed principally to furnish the necessary funds for the Government.

  6. There was an inclination in him to reason, especially and principally with Mr Benson, on the great questions of ethics which the majority of the world have settled long ago.

  7. This letter, then, is principally a sort of delicate hint that some provision ought to have been made, which is true enough, only it has been attended to already; what became of the money?

  8. The conversation turned principally upon Shelley, whom of course she knew intimately; and she gave me one of his letters to herself as an autograph.

  9. Her ladyship's inquiries were principally about America, of which, from long absence, I knew very little.

  10. We have called principally to ask a favor of you, and I hope you will not think it a presumptuous request.

  11. Cora Dares's studio was on Fourth Avenue, and one of many others in a large building which artists principally peopled.

  12. I wrote principally to tell you that the Coopers were arrived and in good health.

  13. Now I really think he will soon be made, and only wish we could communicate our foreknowledge of the event to him whom it principally concerns.

  14. I wrote to Charles yesterday, and Fanny has had a letter from him to-day, principally to make inquiries about the time of their visit here, to which mine was an answer beforehand; so he will probably write again soon to fix his week.

  15. They are all safe and pretty well in Keppel St., the children decidedly better for Broadstairs; and he writes principally to ask when it will be convenient to us to receive Miss P.

  16. By an arrangement with the farmers who supply the milk, those clients who principally use it for producing butter return the skim milk to them after it has been through the separator, when it is employed for stock-feeding purposes.

  17. It is reputed to consist principally of the pounded head of a rattlesnake, which concoction would therefore include the contents of the venom glands.

  18. With the coming of this news a tumult broke out in the camp, principally among the common soldiers, in whose minds suspicion was never wanting, and they still suffered under the terror inspired from old time by the Moors.

  19. At this period the coast trade was altogether in the hands of the Muhammadans, and they used to import large numbers of horses, principally for the use of the great contending armies in the Dakhan and Vijayanagar.

  20. In this city you will find men belonging to every nation and people, because of the great trade which it has, and the many precious stones there, principally diamonds.

  21. Their lives were yet simple; their wealth principally cattle; their dress consisted of coarse woolen mantles, or skins of animals.

  22. Before the Revolution it was the encyclopedist Condorcet who principally took the field for the equal rights of both sexes.

  23. English readers principally know this 'Romance of the Rose' through the translation which is attributed to Chaucer.

  24. Mail-coaches and chaises were the only vehicles then in requisition, with the exception of the awkward gingles, buggies, and other gear of that nondescript class which were peculiar to the times, and principally confined to the metropolis.

  25. The danger's principally by night, though," observed the other.

  26. We allude particularly to the death of Edward Corbet, at this stage of our narrative, because, from that event, the train of circumstances which principally constitute the body of our narrative originated.

  27. Mrs. Mainwaring saw at once that her complaint was principally on the nerves, and lost no time in asking permission to call in medical advice.

  28. Like most misanthropical men, therefore, whose hatred of life is derived principally from that uneasiness of conscience which proceeds from their own vices, he kept aloof from society as far as the necessities of his position allowed him.

  29. Oom Koos farmed two thousand morgen and principally ran goats on the land.

  30. Nel didn't tell you, I suppose, while he was engaged in aspersing my character, that there is a feud of long standing between us which is principally of his making?

  31. It was a commercial hotel that Holman had recommended, run by Dutch people and patronised principally by the Dutch.

  32. Brenda poured out the tea and left the talking principally to the others.

  33. Beyond a Dutch paper, principally concerned with agricultural matters, which Andreas received once a week, no newspaper, so far as Matheson was aware, ever found its way to the farm.

  34. The former were settled in Canada, and the latter principally in Nova Scotia, then called Acadia.

  35. These particular trials,” observed my intelligent friend, “are confined principally to the first breakers of the soil in the unsettled parts of the country, as was our case.

  36. St. John and Miramichi are the two places from whence the exportation of timber is principally carried on in New Brunswick.

  37. In Lower Galilee the peasants are principally Moslem, with a sprinkling of Greek Christians round Nazareth, which is a Christian town.

  38. Of their minerals felspar Is usually the most abundant, and is principally labradorite and bytownite, though anorthite occurs in some, while oligoclase and orthoclase have been found in others.

  39. Cultivation is principally confined to the immediate vicinity of the rivers, which are employed for purposes of irrigation.

  40. The hilly region abounds in forests consisting principally of sal, with satin-wood, ebony and sandal-wood in smaller quantities.

  41. Live stock, principally sheep, pass through Gallipoli in transit to Constantinople and Smyrna.

  42. The Captain retorted angrily, more bitter words ensued, the other gentlemen presently took part in the dispute, which principally concerned the character of young Franz Schorn.

  43. All the tables were occupied, but principally the great round one at which the Burgomaster presided.

  44. The gentlemen from Laibach are principally to blame, with their arrest.

  45. At sixty, after a life spent principally in study, there is small desire for perilous adventure.

  46. The purer coals certainly consist principally of cubical tissues with some true woody matter, and the spore-cases, &c.

  47. The evidence for this rests principally on three slices, No.

  48. From all these considerations it seems to me no longer doubtful that the median elevation was caused by the stomach and gizzard, and that the cheeks have principally served to cover the hepatic appendages of the alimentary canal.

  49. The restoration here presented is modified only slightly from the one designed by Professor Beecher, and the modifications are taken principally from figures published by him.

  50. Diagram showing the form of apparatus principally used by British minesweepers.

  51. In what," he asks "does the refinement of a language principally consist?


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "principally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chiefly; especially; even; first; generally; indeed; initially; largely; mainly; mostly; originally; overall; part; particularly; peculiarly; predominantly; primarily; principally; yea