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353 example sentences for MAIN, such as:

1. The main thing is to attend to the injured.
2. Women are still the main victims of domestic violence.
3. The party's main power base is in the agricultural regions.
4. He likes the traditional meat and two veg for his main meal.
5. Her main contention is that staff should get better training.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
main
 a.  chief in size; importance; principal; leading
 n.  the chief or principal part or point
Classic Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
1  There is much that is still obscure, though I have quite made up my mind on the main facts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  A minute later all five of them were in full flight down the cart-track that led to the main road, with the animals pursuing them in triumph.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
3  Napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led the way down to the five-barred gate that gave on to the main road.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  At a moment when the opening was clear, the men were glad enough to rush out of the yard and make a bolt for the main road.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
5  The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
6  "The man at Maw's was main angry, sir, and he threw it back to me like so much dirt," returned Poole.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
7  Sun-blinds, and sprinklings of water, a little cooled the main streets and the shops; but the mills, and the courts and alleys, baked at a fierce heat.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
8  It contained neither secret passage nor trap-door, and unless where the door by which she had entered joined the main building, seemed to be circumscribed by the round exterior wall of the turret.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Follow me boldly across, and aid me to burst yon sallyport in the main wall of the castle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  But their enterprise was delayed by the absence of more than one main limb of the confederacy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  But he was aware of the noises of the night, the engines at Stacks Gate, the traffic on the main road.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  Hilda turned to the Crosshill Road, that was not a main road, but ran to Mansfield.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  A quick-looking girl of Susan's age was the very worst third in the world: totally different from Lady Bertram, all eyes and ears; and there was no introducing the main point before her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The main thing is to attend to the injured.
17  The attorney quickly turned his main defense argument on its head.
18  Tonight's programme looks back at the main events of the year.
19  Two men were sent up the mountain while the main party of climbers remained at base camp.
20  The party's main power base is in the agricultural regions.
21  One of the panels had become detached from the main structure.
22  They drove down a narrow track that branched off from the main road.
23  He likes the traditional meat and two veg for his main meal.
24  Her main contention is that staff should get better training.
25  Their main job is to preserve health rather than treat illness.
26  When the water pipe burst, she had the intelligence to turn off the water at the main.
27  For them, the house's main value lay in its quiet country location.
28  Women are still the main victims of domestic violence.
29  Intensive negotiations between the main parties preceded the vote.
30  The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything --- or nothing.