Sentence examples for a chiefly from inspiring English sources

He smiled and, in a chiefly gesture, saluted them.

The island soon became a major trading entrepôt with a chiefly Chinese population.

This is a "political stance" premised on a "chiefly Protestant notion of religion understood as private assent to a set of propositional beliefs," she told me.

Theoretically, the Analytic attempt to exhibit the nature of religious language could have been a chiefly descriptive task, but, in fact, most analyses have occurred in the context of questions of truth thus some scholars have been concerned with exhibiting how it is possible to hold religious beliefs in an Empiricist framework, and others with showing the meaninglessness or incoherence of belief.

Bubonic plague, one form of a chiefly flea-spread disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is only rarely spread from person to person among the living, and any disease-causing organisms in an infected person who dies usually decompose quickly, Dr. Gulick said.

Ethnomusicologist George List collected these tales throughout his decades-long fieldwork amongst the rural costenos, a chiefly African-descendent population, in the mid-20th century and, with the help of a research team, transcribed and translated them into English before his death in 2008.

Iraq is a threat chiefly because it is a magnet and a training ground for foreign fighters.

You can use Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary if a word is chiefly a UK spelling or a variant form.

In Richard III, as in Coriolanus, she plays a woman chiefly defined as a mother.

Graphic Arts recently acquired an excellent impression of copy B, a reduced, chiefly engraved version of Wilson's print.

After a short interval, another pair appeared, and constructed a habitation, chiefly with materials purloined from the other nests.