Sentence examples for chiefly and from inspiring English sources

Polygyny is restricted to the chiefly and wealthy classes.

But what was chiefly and directly communicated was a joy all Beethoven's own -- or several different joys.

Had Lanzmann done nothing more, he would be remembered chiefly, and faintly, as a sort of intellectual and political Zelig; his most enduring trace would likely have been his prominent cameo in Beauvoir's memoir "Force of Circumstance" (1963).

There are considerable hurdles, chiefly and simply the discomfort of many in being affiliated with products and services they consider immoral or that they think could tarnish their reputations.

Isherwood demurred, chiefly, and ironically, because Heinz, his current lover, was a stateless German exile not eligible for such a luxury, but also because he was loath to give any impression he might be trying to pass as a heterosexual, even for the noblest motive; and he suggested instead another of their circle, the poet Wystan Auden.

That Dylan ultimately accepted the Nobel with a folk song (and this specific folk song, performed by a surrogate, a peer) seemed to communicate something significant about how and what he considers his own work (musical, chiefly), and the fluid, unsteady nature of balladry itself — both the ways in which old songs are fairly reclaimed by new performers, and how their meanings change with time.

According to his blog, the OED describes the word as "originally and chiefly British" and cites a 1991 quote from The Observer about Princess Diana's friends from school.

Recent interest has centred on the role of adipokines, chiefly leptin and adiponectin, and inflammatory cytokines [ 14].

He described his social life as chiefly "school and work up and down".

The major religions are Christian (chiefly Anglican and Roman Catholic) and Hindu.

The meningitis was composed of a mixture of acute and chronic inflammatory cells, chiefly neurophils and macrophages.