Sample sentences for PRIMARILY

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Definition

mainly (most importantly)

Did the author mention multiple companies primarily to demonstrate diversity of solutions or to show that interest in the industry is widespread?

primarily = mainly

The second paragraph is primarily concerned with showing how the colleges are different.

primarily = mainly

The first stage is primarily physical; the second, primarily emotional; the third, primarily mental.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

primarily = mainly

"Right, it's primarily his hotness," I said.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

primarily = mainly

The first stage is primarily physical; the second, primarily emotional; the third, primarily mental.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent
The first stage is primarily physical; the second, primarily emotional; the third, primarily mental.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent
No, not primarily, although at the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

primarily = mainly

After a moment, Eve realized she was limping primarily because she'd lost a shoe.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
We had lived primarily on fast food, which was a challenge for my vegetarian child.
Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
It's a fun thing, and that's primarily how it should be looked at."
Walter Dean Myers -- Hoops
She also observed aid programs that spent primarily on expatriate staff and didn't know what they were doing.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Dad did what he could to encourage more industrial growth in some of the primarily agricultural provinces.
Kiera Cass -- The Heir
The colleague of Franz's whom Marie-Claude asked to speak at the graveside services also paid homage primarily to the deceased's brave wife.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Napoleon's vanity was insufferable, but primarily because it was so fully justified.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
Stickiness is primarily a property of the message.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
Being primarily interested in Left Front, I sided in simple loyalty with the writers.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Primarily, they will be filled by either tourists or the wealthy summer residents who have been coming to Tinos since the 1990s.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Herbert was an ROV specialist at Oceaneering International, a company that builds and operates ROVs primarily for the oil and gas industry.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
The shipboard computer had a limited library. it was geared primarily to entertainment rather than education.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
Then he began to speak, quietly and deliberately, picking his words with great care: "It is Okonkwo that I primarily wish to speak to," he began.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

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