Sample Sentences for
principal
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    The principal reason for the delay was bad weather.
    principal = main
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    The singer was the principal performer; though the whole band was good.
    principal = most important
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    But we spoke to the principal there and told him about you and he really wants to meet you.  (source)
    principal = person in charge of the school
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    Alan Grant was one of the principal advocates of the theory that dinosaurs were warm-blooded.  (source)
    principal = most important
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    What I saw was principally field upon field rolling off into the far distance.†  (source)
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    It was a tense scene as the principals all turned to face the jury, Simpson, in his blue suit, surrounded by his small army of lawyers, the prosecutors who wanted him behind bars just a few feet away.†  (source)
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    "If you don't I'll call the principal," she said.  (source)
    principal = person in charge of the school
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    I am a chiropodist, principally.†  (source)
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    Their membership included teachers, school principals, doctors, ministers, owners of small businesses, and lawyers.†  (source)
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    George Beard and Harold Hutchins, please report to Principal Krupp's office at once.  (source)
    Principal = most important; or person that is most important
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    So, on this great journey into the East, straight meat was the bill of fare, ammunition and tools principally made up the load on the sled, and the time-card was drawn upon the limitless future.†  (source)
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    The assassin would find the principals irresistible as clients, and both camps would demand the death of Jason Bourne.†  (source)
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    June swore off men and said she would never get married, and then she met Neil when he came to be the new principal at her school.  (source)
    principal = person in charge of the school
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