Sentence examples for only secondarily from inspiring English sources

The phrase "only secondarily" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is of lesser importance or significance compared to something else. Example: While his primary goal was to improve his academic performance, he also worked to develop his social skills, only secondarily focusing on them.

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We only secondarily see the pictures themselves.

What Remains is only secondarily a whodunnit.

He speaks of himself as a reader first and a writer only secondarily.

The team's fame relied only secondarily on an impressive record on the field.

Scroggins's biography reads like an illumination of "A" first, and a biography only secondarily.

Because the questions I'm asking are only secondarily about policies, over which honorable people can disagree.

Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions.

The concept of the chapters of "Other People's Houses" was thematic and only secondarily chronological.

Too bad, because you might notice only secondarily that the music has become great.

The study attributed families' difficulty affording food mostly to the dire state of the Palestinian economy, and only secondarily to the closings as such.

Mr. Lynch's hypnotic exercise in non sequitur gives us a funhouse nightmare that we mostly look at on film and hear only secondarily.

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