Sentence examples for as chiefly from inspiring English sources
He described his social life as chiefly "school and work up and down".
But Republicans denounced the president's action as chiefly intended to win votes for Al Gore.
Months later, George Orwell described Dickens as chiefly interested in politics; it was just that his politics weren't half as radical as some people wanted them to be.
In the 20th century, the mask increasingly became perceived as chiefly a decorative object, although it has long been used in art as an ornamental device.
Contemporary society, Riesman thought, was best understood as chiefly "other-directed," where the inculcated authority of the vertical (one's lineage) gives way to the muddled authority of the horizontal (one's peers).
The crews of the mission ships Okinawan for the most part used the islands as stepping stones on the route from Quanzhou to Naha and back.Imperial China's tributary relations are often misrepresented as chiefly a burden on the vassal state.
The astute English critic Kenneth Tynan identified Broadway humor as being chiefly of two kinds: Jewish and homosexual.
Suddenly the free world — a phrase described in the Oxford English Dictionary as "now chiefly historical" — was back in the current-events vocabulary.
In particular, regulators worried that GE Capital Aviation Services, the largest aircraft-leasing company, would buy only Honeywell aerospace products, just as it chiefly buys G.E. jet engines.
As represented chiefly by Provençal, Occitan was rich in poetic literature in the Middle Ages until the north crushed political power in the south (1208 29).
