Sentence examples similar to it chiefly is from inspiring English sources

Smith, with the style of an Alderman out of JB Priestley, gave a performance which held public attention to the end, but performance was what it chiefly was.

DIANNE FEINSTEIN's decision not to stand for the governorship of California may have transformed the election's prospects, but it has not changed the issue on which it will chiefly be fought: the state's failing schools.

This does of course raise a couple of questions, chiefly is it really possible to play a "Back to the Old Skool" event having not been to actual school?

The zoanthid closely resembles the sea anemone, differing from it chiefly in being generally smaller and in having a mucous coat to which sand and other materials adhere.

It is overfished, chiefly, it is true, in coastal waters, but also in the great expanses that belong to no state.

Chiefly, it is down to the idea that achievement and competition are all important.

But chiefly, it was murder.

It isn't just treachery, as the cynical French diplomat Talleyrand once put it, it is chiefly a matter of dates.

In another essay, he states that it is "chiefly in its presence that the world's reality resides".

But at Crossroads and Restore Our Future, it is chiefly Mr. Forti who figures out how to spend it.

It is chiefly concerned with human life and well-being, though it sometimes also treats ethical questions relating to the nonhuman biological environment.