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Example sentences for "largely"

Lexicographically close words:
larg; larga; largas; large; largelie; largeness; largenesse; larger; larges; largess
  1. It seems likely that there was an image of Frey at Thrandheim, and it is highly probable that this god would be largely figured in Sweden, although the texts in which there is mention of this are of a very legendary character.

  2. Highest of all stood the king, on whose attitude towards the gods and their worship the prosperity of his people was believed largely to depend.

  3. It was, indeed, the duty of the latter to 'keep up the sacrifices,' on which the public peace and prosperity were believed largely to depend.

  4. Three years later, when Birney returned to Kentucky to do himself what Henry Clay had refused to do, he became convinced that the reaction which had taken place in favor of slavery was largely due to Clay's influence.

  5. Southern Ohio was populated largely by Quakers and other people from the slave States who abhorred slavery.

  6. Benton's defeat in the Missouri Legislature was largely the result of national pro-slavery influences.

  7. This is a familiar arrangement of Mr. Walpole's; to erect a largely silent negative force, like an evil and sometimes obscene carved god in the shadows, and oppose to it the tragic vivid necessity of youth.

  8. No wonder our movement has been driven largely underground.

  9. Your Sunday schools won't save you any more than my investments will--which have largely been wine, women and song.

  10. When I had largely declared the Word of life unto them for about the space of three hours, I walked forth amongst the people, who passed away well satisfied.

  11. Largely and freely did I declare the Word of life unto them, and had not much persecution there.

  12. It was judged there were above a thousand people; to whom I declared God's everlasting truth and Word of life freely and largely for about the space of three hours.

  13. Thus the Lord gave me a good opportunity to open things largely unto them.

  14. When Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, she did not eat largely enough.

  15. Comfort is largely a matter of comparison.

  16. This form is largely found on the hands of artists, painters, and those who even in other walks of life have the sensitive artistic temperament, even though it may not have been developed to a larger extent.

  17. For example, the difference in the shape of the hands of the French and German or the French and English races would convince any thinking person that temperament and disposition are indeed largely indicated by the shape of the hand itself.

  18. These persons have enormous imagination, their creative faculties largely developed.

  19. Perhaps on account of this quality they are very often found in church-life, or largely associated with religious movements.

  20. The qualities of the fiery Mount of Mars, from which such a Line of Head starts inside the Life Line, is largely the cause of the peculiarities above indicated.

  21. This class of Head Line is largely found in cases where the subject is naturally inclined towards drink and intemperance of every description.

  22. It largely depends on the kind of Head Line and the will power shown by it, to determine whether its owner will develop the natural artistic temperament that he or she possesses.

  23. Fate will be more eventful, changeable, and largely depending on the fancy and caprice of other people.

  24. If this Line of Head farther out in the palm become straight, it denotes that the subject will, later, by the development of his intelligence largely overcome this failing of over-sensitiveness.

  25. New York was so largely tinged with Dutchmanship that it resented more than the others the authority of alien England, and fought its royal governors to the finish.

  26. It was exercised only by a part of the people, and even then, largely under advice or influence.

  27. Such waste seemed criminal in a country beleaguered by submarines, in its third year of war, and largely dependent for its food-supply on the farm labor of women and children.

  28. Indeed, the difficulty which I am going to have in writing this narrative is largely due to this romantic influence of his.

  29. The future of international politics largely depends on the question whether we have a specific instinct of hatred for human beings of a different racial type from ourselves.

  30. The empirical art of politics consists largely in the creation of opinion by the deliberate exploitation of subconscious non-rational inference.

  31. The tactics of an election consist largely of contrivances by which this immediate emotion of personal affection may be set up.

  32. Our own position as an Asiatic power depends very largely on the development of China and Persia, which are inhabited by races who may claim, in some respects, to be our intellectual superiors.

  33. The book is a re-issue, largely re-written, of lectures given at Oxford in 1837.

  34. That advance therefore of psychology which has transformed pedagogy and criminology has left politics largely unchanged.

  35. In our other activities habit is largely a matter of muscular adaptation, but the bodily movements of politics occur so seldom that nothing like a habit can be set up by them.

  36. It is largely an accident that the same system has not been introduced into our local government.

  37. The separation of the two systems in our minds may, indeed, be largely due to the mere accident that from historical reasons we call them by different names.

  38. This indifference to present-day Europe, its politics, social customs and institutions, has in the past been largely to blame for the inefficiency of our foreign news service.

  39. He held his position largely through his brother's influence, and might just as well have been given any other "job," so far as his particular fitness for public office was concerned.

  40. The church and convent originally belonged to the Frati Umiliati, who settled here in 1251, were largely influential in promoting the Florentine wool trade, and exceedingly democratic in their sympathies.

  41. The licence and wantonness of these Milanese scandalised even the lax Florentines, and largely added to the growing corruption of the city.

  42. Within the next few years, in spite of famine, disease, and a terrible inundation of the Arno in 1333, the Republic largely extended its sway.

  43. It was largely altered by Buontalenti in the last part of the sixteenth century, and has been recently completely restored.

  44. The Bianchi in the Sesto largely outnumbered his forces, but did not venture to attack him, while the populace bawled Viva il Barone to their hearts' content.

  45. Pankraz’s adventures are largely repetitions of former motifs, and illustrate the fate indissolubly linked with an imitation of Sterne’s related converse with the fair sex.

  46. The chapter “Der Einwurf” is occupied entirely with the reader’s protest, and the last two sections are largely the record of fancied conversations with various readers concerning the nature of the book; here the author discloses himself.

  47. Further, eccentricity in typography, in outward form, may be largely attributed to Sterne’s influence, although in individual cases no direct connection is traceable.

  48. Possibly encouraged by the critic’s approbation, Schummel devoted his literary effort for the following years largely to the drama.

  49. Though he was not equal to his superintendent in pulpit ability, he largely made up for it by his diligent pastoral visitation, and the earnest and vigorous way in which he went about his high and holy calling.

  50. For several years after the stirring events previously narrated, Nestleton Magna had largely reverted to the even tenor of its way.

  51. He knew that that change had been largely wrought by the son he had received from the dead, and by the fair girl who had gotten so strong a hold upon his heart.

  52. This is one particularly adapted to upright arrangements and one largely used by the old masters.

  53. The incoherency of beginner’s work out of doors is largely due to its crumbling into a great number of petty planes, a fault resulting from observation of detail instead of the larger shapes.

  54. In the drawing of the “Shepherdess” by Millet the attraction of two alleys which the eye might take is largely regulated by the subordination of one of them by proportional size and a lowering of the tone of the sky.

  55. If to-day it is less kept down, this is partly for reasons I will indicate, but largely because the adult has changed.

  56. And if sometimes women do not discharge the lost bet, it is largely because a tradition of protection and patronage has laid down that women need not pay their bets.

  57. They disagree largely because there is too much propinquity.

  58. Men do not escape this any more than women: the German atrocities, for instance, largely proceed from extreme excitement.

  59. She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

  60. All this forwardness and completeness are largely due to the zeal of the High Commissioner, Sir Charles Tupper, and his energetic and obliging secretary, Mr. Colmer.

  61. The party came out to attend the Scientific Convention of Canada, and have since travelled largely through the great West.

  62. This is as it should be, otherwise the meeting would be largely one of mere "trippers," instead of genuine representatives of British science.

  63. Throughout India there exists a group of women workers, widely scattered, largely unknown to one another, in the public eye unhonored and unsung, yet performing tasks of great significance.

  64. What could be more contradictory than to find a Christian girls' school, supported largely by American money, but staffed by Hindu men, just because no Christian women with necessary qualifications are available?

  65. In short, the family circle is a world in miniature, with its own habits, its own interests, and its own ties, largely independent of the great world that lies outside.

  66. The audience, largely of teachers, theological students, and schoolboys and girls, sat on the clean floor space.

  67. True it is that her virtues are limited; obedience, chastity, and an unlimited capacity for suffering largely sum them up.

  68. The technical operation, that is; the legal battles in which it figured so largely were to run on for enough years to make the word "zwilnik" a common noun and adjective in the language.

  69. The Patrol would be pretty largely inter-systemic in scope .

  70. Secondary (cretaceous) and tertiary rocks are largely developed in the interior.

  71. The beans cultivated in America and largely used as articles of food belong to the genus Phase[)o]lus.

  72. They are now largely imported from Egypt, Turkey, Greece, and the Netherlands.

  73. It consists of the city proper within the walls and the suburbs without, and is largely composed of poor and crowded houses, but has also some fine buildings, and is noted for its Hindu temples kept up by the State.

  74. The harbour accommodation is good, and in particular coals are largely exported.

  75. Woollen manufactures are extensive, particularly carpets and bonnets; lace goods are largely made; Kilmarnock is a centre of engineering and of dairying education.

  76. The Danube is navigable for pretty large vessels; the tributaries also are largely navigable.

  77. Averroes regarded Aristotle as the greatest of all philosophers, and devoted himself so largely to the exposition of his works as to be called among the Arabians The Interpreter.

  78. Horned cattle and sheep are largely bred, the first attaining a great size, while the sheep improve in fleece and their flesh in flavour.

  79. Napoleon won more than one great victory by this method, and Wellington's reputation was largely based upon his skill in defensive-offensive operations.

  80. It largely consists of swamps, lakes, and bare rock.

  81. I think that it may be said that the American current, so plain for the last quarter of a century in the flow of Catholic affairs, is, largely at least, to be traced back to Father Hecker and his early co-workers.

  82. Bringing the reader back to the Church, the fourteen last chapters fully develop her claims, dealing mostly with known facts and public institutions, and citing largely the testimony of non-Catholic writers.

  83. This, I take it, was largely the meaning of Father Hecker's oft-repeated teaching on the work of the Holy Ghost in souls.

  84. It was a characteristic trait of his to expect good results from reliance on human virtue, and his whole success as a persuades of men was largely to be explained by the subtle flattery of this trustful attitude towards them.

  85. I have dealt pretty largely in both kinds, and have frequently written more verses in a day, with tags, than I could ever write without them.

  86. It will however be necessary to speak a little more largely to this subject, on which discordant opinions prevail even among good judges.

  87. Ye are the Epistles of Christ,' and if the writing be blurred and blotted and often half unintelligible, the blame will be laid largely at His door.

  88. The crowd listening to our Lord was largely made up of them.

  89. The depth and fervour of our individual Christianity depends more largely on the clearness of our consciousness of our own personal guilt and the firmness of our grasp of forgiveness than upon anything else.

  90. It is largely based upon Malachi's closing prophecy, and the connection witnesses to John's consciousness that he was the Elijah foretold there.

  91. Only remember, we have to take this great conception of the future as being one that implies largely increased and ennobled activity.

  92. Water in Salt Wash is largely backwater from the bankfull river; actual flow in wash generally is much less but at times reaches flood proportions.

  93. The underlying Kayenta Formation is largely hidden by vegetation and alluvial deposits in this view.

  94. Against both, the pillar of reaction is peasant society, and peasant society has proved throughout Europe largely coördinate with the remaining authority of the Catholic Church.

  95. As a matter of fact the Army was already principally professional, and it was being recruited even in this first stage very largely from the territories Rome had conquered.

  96. Western Europe in the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries was largely indifferent to our modern ideas of race.

  97. The governing class remained largely indifferent (as it still is) to religion, yet it remained highly cultured.

  98. It was the Eastern or Persian frontier, guarded by spaces largely desert.

  99. The Dark Ages gave us that wealth of story coloring and enlivening all our European life, and what is more, largely preserving historic truth; for nothing is more valuable to true history than legend.

  100. The truth is, that the historian can only detail those causes, largely material, all evident and positive, which lie within his province, and such causes are quite insufficient to explain the full result.

  101. Indeed, the great battle about to be engaged between chaos and order will turn largely upon this form of suggestion, this acceptation of an unfounded and irrational authority.

  102. If we understand it, we largely understand what made the success of the Reformation possible.

  103. It next suffers grievously from the accident, largely geographical, of the Eastern schism.

  104. Since their victory over the Crown, they and the capitalists, who have sprung from their avarice and their philosophy, and largely from their very loins, have been completely masters of England.


  105. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "largely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    largely because; largely composed; largely developed; largely employed; largely grown; largely self; largely subsistence; largely used