1
obsolete
: in a forceful manner
2
: for the most part : chiefly
Examples of mainly in a Sentence
you mainly need to focus on improving your golf swing
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The consensus among some who spoke amounted mainly to their own tolerance to separate the art from the artist.
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
Items below the benchmark are sorted into a different area mainly for incineration or landfill, which is where textile pollution wreaks its most damage.
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While these were heard mainly in towns close to the Lebanese border in the north, sirens were also heard in Jerusalem and central Israel.
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Another system arriving Friday evening and lasting into Saturday will bring accumulating snow, mainly west and northwest of the metro.
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
Items below the benchmark are sorted into a different area mainly for incineration or landfill, which is where textile pollution wreaks its most damage.
—Tian MacLeod Ji, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
While these were heard mainly in towns close to the Lebanese border in the north, sirens were also heard in Jerusalem and central Israel.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
Another system arriving Friday evening and lasting into Saturday will bring accumulating snow, mainly west and northwest of the metro.
—Joseph Dames, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
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“Mainly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mainly. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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