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Example sentences for "used chiefly"

  • 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 in the manufacture of whips.

  • 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 chiefly in the First Archilochian Strophe (see 2725).

  • The dative of the gerund is used chiefly by 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.

  • A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.

  • That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.

  • Defn: A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.

  • It is used chiefly to cheapen blends[8] of 60's top.

  • It is used chiefly in the manufacture of dress goods.

  • 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 is used 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.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common plan; domestic work; higher plane; little dove; marble statue; shorter time; skirmish line; skull smaller; suspect that; thought very; twenty pound; used adjectively; used after; used also; used chiefly; used every; used for information dated; used here; used instead; used often; used only; used sometimes; used specifically; used with; verbal noun; white stone