Sample Sentences for
primarily
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  • The first stage is primarily physical; the second, primarily emotional; the third, primarily mental.  (source)
  • "Right, it's primarily his hotness," I said.  (source)
  • Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.  (source)
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  • It also doubled as an industrial-strength air conditioner/purifier, which was primarily what I used it for.  (source)
    primarily = mainly
  • Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness.  (source)
  • Or, when Willem was visiting and would not let us forget, or when letters to Jewish suppliers in Germany came back marked "Address Unknown," we still managed to believe that it was primarily a German problem.  (source)
  • 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.  (source)
  • The shipboard computer had a limited library—it was geared primarily to entertainment rather than education.  (source)
  • Under the influence not I know of the hardest cider but of his own inner joy at life for a moment as it should be, as it was meant to be in his nature, Phineas recaptured that magic gift for existing primarily in space, one foot conceding briefly to gravity its rights before spinning him off again into the air.  (source)
  • The two lawyers who were appointed to represent him at his capital trial were primarily concerned that only one of them would be paid the $1,000 for out-of-court time that Alabama provided lawyers appointed in capital cases.  (source)
  • Primarily, the pentacle is a pagan religious symbol.  (source)
  • Greece was primarily a nation of soldiers.  (source)
  • When it's primarily a question of revenge.  (source)
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