It is a staple article of manufacture in Europe, India, and the United States, and is used chiefly to dilute the oil paints and varnishes used in indoor work.
It is used chiefly to give intensity to the odor of perfumes, and the best quality brings as much as five dollars per ounce.
It is essential in the manufacture of thermometers and barometers, but is used chiefly, however, as a solvent of gold, which it separates from the finely powdered ore by solution or amalgamation.
It is used chieflyin the First Archilochian Strophe (see 2725).
The dative of the gerund is used chieflyby old and late writers, and is confined in the best prose to a few special phrases.
The Elegiac Distich is used chiefly in elegiac poetry (whence the name), in amatory verse and in epigrams.
Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse.
Used chiefly in ointments and injections for piles, foul ulcers, &c.
Used chiefly to mix with other brandy, or to flavour plain spirit.
The first is used chiefly as a colouring and flavouring substance by cooks, confectioners, wine and cordial brewers, &c.
This name is applied to the German black match, or tinder, used chiefly to receive the file from flint and steel.
Borate of soda, or borax, is a salt, which has long been known, and is used chiefly in the arts as a flux for the fusion of bodies, and for soldering.
Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.
A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
This wool is used chiefly in the manufacture of cloths where much milling[3] is required, such as superfines and dress-faced fabrics.
In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; - used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.
At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.
That is extant which has escaped the ravages of time (used chiefly of books, manuscripts, etc.
Lengthy is used chiefly of discourses or writings, and implies tediousness.
Devoted is used chiefly in the good sense; as, a mother's devoted affection.
Pollute isused chiefly of liquids; as, water polluted with sewage.
Opposition is used chiefly of persons, more rarely of opinions or interests; conflict is used indifferently of all.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "used chiefly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
