PRINCIPALLY in a Sentence

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Until the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found old friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRINCIPALLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
principally
 ad.  for the most part
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  But he now reclined on his settle, taking very little notice of me, and talking principally about turnips.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
3  To my surprise, he seemed at once to be principally if not solely interested in Drummle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
4  So we fell into other talk, and it was principally about the way by which we were travelling, and about what parts of London lay on this side of it, and what on that.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIII
5  Now, there was no reasonable evidence to implicate any person but this woman, and on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it Mr. Jaggers principally rested his case.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
6  I was to go home next night; not by the mail, but by the heavy night-coach, which was called the Farmer, and was principally used by country-people travelling short intermediate distances upon the road.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
7  Until the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found old friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
8  My quickness of apprehension seemed to please him, and he went on: 'Now I consider this is principally on account of her being in an unsettled state, you see.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
9  We have talked it over a good deal, her uncle and myself, and her sweetheart and myself, after business; and I consider it is principally on account of her being unsettled.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
10  After this, Mrs. Crupp confined herself to making pitfalls on the stairs, principally with pitchers, and endeavouring to delude Peggotty into breaking her legs.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
11  Good heavens, it is principally because I AM among friends that my state of mind is what it is.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
12  At balls he danced principally with her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
13  She did not go out principally because the dress she had reckoned upon was not ready.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
14  These were principally accounts owing in connection with his race horses, to the purveyor of oats and hay, the English saddler, and so on.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 19
15  The simple-hearted cowherd, Ivan, who, Levin fancied, understood the matter better than any of them, collecting together a gang of workers to help him, principally of his own family, became a partner in the cattle-yard.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 29
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  Independence Day is one of America's principal legal holidays.
17  Nigeria is our principal trading partner in Africa.
18  One of the teacher's principal duties is to prepare students for external examinations.
19  The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
20  The principal reason for my change of mind is this.
21  A country's principal resource is its brainpower.
22  We looked around the school and talked with the principal.
23  The principal castigate the student who have insult their teacher.
24  Thus Stiglitz sees the control problem as a multiple-principal-single- agent problem with each principal having a somewhat different objective.
25  We could tell we were in serious trouble from the gravity of the principal's expression.
26  Sometimes all suspended their by-play to observe and listen to the principal actors.
27  Lots of the principal people gathered around the king, to let him see they was on his side.
28  The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.
29  The principal would severely reprove the students whenever they talked in the halls.
30  When the principal canceled the senior prom because some seniors had been late to school that week, we thought the draconian punishment was far too harsh for such a minor violation of the rules.