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Example sentences for "partly"

Lexicographically close words:
partium; partizan; partizans; partizanship; partlie; partner; partners; partnership; partnerships; parto
  1. Twice after this, coats hung on a peg near the tokonoma were found almost immediately lying on the floor at some distance, one having been pulled from its peg with such force as partly to tear it.

  2. Of these various posts, I liked that at Blackheath the least, partly because the headmaster there was the most unmitigated snob, and my pupils hopelessly spoilt, and partly because I had such a detestation of the heath after dark.

  3. I have decided, partly at the request of my son and partly from my own estimate of your ability, to give you the trial.

  4. The scene is partly laid in Waltham Forest.

  5. The origin of their use in this way is probably due largely to our national fondness for bell-ringing, but partly also to the great veneration in which bells were held in superstitious times.

  6. At Bardfield there is a beer-house with the sign of the BOOT, so distinguished unquestionably because the landlord is also a boot and shoe maker, as a partly pictorial board over his door informs passers-by.

  7. They were partly hidden by the foliage, and when they saw the strange vessel making straight towards them, with the evident intention of coming to an anchorage, they took to their heels and disappeared.

  8. Of this indulgence he partly repented, for the monkey seized upon the empty can when he laid it down, and drained it greedily.

  9. Baltizar the fat negro was given the task of supplying the party with food, partly from the natural resources of the island, partly from the stores of the Maid Marian, which Dennis resolved to share, economically, with the rest.

  10. Its interior had been partly hollowed out, the wood and pith burnt away, and the charred sides scraped with the hatchets.

  11. Even Miss Webster grew to like him, partly because he ignored the possibility of her doing otherwise, partly because his vital frank personality was irresistible.

  12. Half an hour later, they drove through the wheat, at which George glanced dubiously; and then, traversing a belt of light sandy clods partly grown with weeds, they drew up before the house.

  13. The trail was difficult to find and bad to follow, for long grass and willow-scrub partly covered it, and in spite of their caution the men made a good deal of noise.

  14. With face fiercely set and the perspiration dripping from him, he held on, scorched and partly dazzled by the glare.

  15. This was partly the case, but he was also suffering from homesickness and a shrinking from what was new and strange.

  16. It was very cold the next morning, though the sun was rising above the edge of the scourged plain, when Edgar, partly dressed and wearing wet boots and leggings, came into the room and looked down at George compassionately.

  17. She shrank from him with a start that was partly natural, for she was not quite prepared for a bold avowal.

  18. He still felt heavy and partly dazed; his mind was lethargic, and his hands and feet tingled painfully with the returning warmth.

  19. A man lay, gray in face, among the grass, held down by the body of the animal which partly rested upon him.

  20. Having been partly dazed by the blow he had received, he had no clear recollection of the part he had taken in the scrimmage, though he had been conscious of burning anger when Farren was struck down.

  21. On leaving they had invited him to visit them; but, partly from diffidence, Singleton had not gone, though he knew these were not the people who took a man up when he could be of service and afterward dropped him.

  22. The fellow rose with a promptness which partly disarmed Grant's suspicions, and put his foot on the edge of the vehicle, ready to jump down.

  23. That's partly why I've come over to-night.

  24. At last, in one of these intervals, the Canadian, partly rising, lifted his hand.

  25. The trail, he knew, was riddled here and there with gopher holes and partly grown with brush that might bring his horse down, but this did not count.

  26. His movements and his occupation for the first year after his return are not now traceable with exactitude, but his time was apparently spent partly in London and partly at Grasmere and Keswick.

  27. When he had come into that fallen quarter his industry had partly revived and wholly made odorous, a negro woman, leaning upon her whitewashed gate, gazed after him and chuckled for the benefit of a gossiping friend in the next tiny yard.

  28. Partly that, and partly--well, she's been pretty sick.

  29. Birds, by the chirping of Lurebirds, which partly hop upon the Bed, 6.

  30. These she was gathering together and arranging, partly that they might be easier to carry, and partly to justify her pleasure in their beauty by setting it off to the best advantage.

  31. The door of the yellow drawing-room was partly open, and Mr. Hayes was presumably out, for Barbara was at the old piano.

  32. The first inhabitants of Europe are said to have been the offspring of a woman, partly of the human and partly of the dracontic figure, a tradition which alludes to their Ophite origin.

  33. In the summit of the temple, and in a recess the timber of which was highly ornamented, we saw a figure half human and the other half resembling an alligator, inlaid with jewels, and partly covered with a mantle.

  34. Its form is partly human, and the rest composed of rattlesnakes and the tiger.

  35. N is not only the most remote from the original in dialect, it has also been altered in language more than the others, partly from a desire to make the meaning plainer, partly from a dislike of any singularity of expression.

  36. But a detailed account of what he saw, partly drawn from the Revelation of Peter (ed.

  37. The revival of Anglo-Saxon studies under Archbishop Parker, partly prompted by the desire to use in defence of the Reformation the evidences as to the tenets of the early Church in England, caused such books as this to be carefully read.

  38. These are partly commissions which, having executed at home, he is carrying to their several owners.

  39. The road was very bad, and it took us nearly three hours to accomplish the distance, but this may be partly accounted for by our stopping every half-hour to mend some one's broken harness.

  40. We know so little of Homer and Shakspeare partly because they were Homer and Shakspeare.

  41. We are compelled by a necessity, partly geographical and partly social, into restoring a Union politically which never for a day has actually ceased.

  42. Inisfail' may be regarded as a sort of National Chronicle, cast in a form partly lyrical, partly narrative.

  43. That it was "partly a penance of self-expostulation," as he further declares, we in no wise admit.

  44. Cathleen said her prayers, only partly undressed herself, and lifting up the worn-out coverlet, lay down upon the bed.

  45. He had two other titles, one of which was "the Master of Secrets," partly because he possessed the secrets of health and disease, very probably also because so many things had to be confided to him as a physician.

  46. He pushed his partly mollified friend into his chair again, and taking a seat next him began to view the affair with enthusiasm.

  47. The captain growled and waited, and found his sister's prognostications partly fulfilled.

  48. He gazed benevolently after the young man's retreating figure and continued his stroll, his own troubles partly forgotten in the desire to assist his friends.

  49. Miss Nugent, although she treated him with scant courtesy herself, had a touching faith in his prowess, a faith partly due to her brother occasionally showing her his bicep muscles in moments of exaltation.

  50. This was in the later days, and the act was partly fake and partly genuine.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "partly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appreciably; comparatively; fairly; half; halfway; incompletely; merely; mildly; moderately; modestly; only; part; partial; partially; partly; purely; relatively; simply; somewhat; tolerably; visibly


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    partly because; partly from; partly owing; partly statutes; partly through