Sentence examples for serve principally from inspiring English sources
The posterior leaflike gills serve principally for respiration; feeding is carried out by the palp proboscides, which collect surface detritus.
In contemporary cryptography, transpositions serve principally as one of several encryption steps in forming a compound or product cipher.
As with all the best powerpop, though, the verses serve principally as a delivery vehicle to get you to the chorus via the most efficient route possible.
The idiom is organized in terms of chivalry around female glory: men in black tunics and tights serve principally as cavaliers and as background to women who are resplendent in white tutus.
He was just there, going on hunger strikes, one of the prisoners whose detention seemed to serve principally as a justification for Guantánamo rather than as a route to justice — including justice for the victims of 9/11, who deserve better than that sort of legal farce.
These serve principally to allow the adult to escape from the cocoon.
Instead, 2 Columbus Circle has been sitting empty for four years, serving principally as a giant screen on which advertisements are projected after dark.
National political conventions in America have become largely meaningless theater, serving principally as coronations for a party nominee whose selection by thousands of delegates is entirely preordained.
The president, who is elected to a five-year term, serves principally as a symbolic head of state and is the commander in chief of the armed forces; a president may serve no more than two terms.
The absence of vowel letters was not at first a problem, because Hebrew, like other Semitic languages, has consonantal roots, with vowels serving principally to denote inflections in nouns, moods of verbs, and other grammatical variations.
Not long ago, the notion that the government can't "compel speech" served principally to vindicate individual freedom, as in a 1977 Supreme Court decision holding that Jehovah's Witness residents of New Hampshire couldn't be required to carry the state's motto, "Live Free or Die," on their cars' license plates.
