chiefly

[US]/'tʃiːflɪ/
[UK]/'tʃifli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

chiefly adv. mainly; primarily.

Example Sentences

Bread is chiefly made of flour.

Icecream is chiefly made of milk and sugar.

Cattle feed chiefly on grass.

he is remembered chiefly for his organ sonatas.

he is chiefly famous for his love poetry.

I wax my boots chiefly to waterproof them.

Tea is raised chiefly in China,Japan and India.

The accident happened chiefly because you were careless.

Syntactically, an adjectival adverbial-head structure chiefly acts as the head and the adnex.

Chiefly, I ask you to remember to write to your elderly mother.

The team lost the game chiefly bacause the team leader had a dispute with the coach.

My interest in him chiefly centres in his quick mind.

The houses in my hometown were chiefly composed of wood.

genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed;

Martin Tutin claimed that she [the Prime Minister] was chiefly responsible for the crisis.

chiefly maritimes Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry.

Real-world Examples

He valued his royal crown chiefly because it was made of that precious metal.

Source: American Elementary School English 5

Soldiers are chiefly defenders of the nest.

Source: Intermediate English short passage

It is there chiefly that the tiger has his haunts.

Source: UK original primary school Chinese language class

Bread is chiefly made of flour.

Source: High-frequency vocabulary in daily life

But he taught chiefly by example.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 3

Our environment is chiefly conditioned by the things we believe.

Source: New Concept English. British Edition. Book Four (Translation)

They're actually sharpest right at birth, and they're so innate that newborns orient themselves chiefly by scent.

Source: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology

Our environment is chiefly conditoned by the things we believe.

Source: New Concept English (4)

That was what the others chiefly noticed, but Edmund noticed something else.

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

But chiefly they can't publish because most leaks come from No. 10.

Source: Yes, Minister Season 3

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