LARGELY in a Sentence
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98 example sentences for LARGELY, such as:
1. The islands' economy is largely dependent upon tourism.
2. The fund is largely financed through government borrowing.
3. Society largely turns a blind eye to recreational drug use.
4. Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
5. The west of the city was largely unaffected by the bombing.
2. The fund is largely financed through government borrowing.
3. Society largely turns a blind eye to recreational drug use.
4. Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
5. The west of the city was largely unaffected by the bombing.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of LARGELY
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largely
ad. on a large scale
ad. in large part; mainly or chiefly
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 No sooner was the work thus started, and the general system and local organization in some measure begun, than two grave difficulties appeared which changed largely the theory and outcome of Bureau work.
2 The government of the unreconstructed South was thus put very largely in the hands of the Freedmen's Bureau, especially as in many cases the departmental military commander was now made also assistant commissioner.
3 When sticks and stones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude is largely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces.
4 The rich and dominating North, however, was not only weary of the race problem, but was investing largely in Southern enterprises, and welcomed any method of peaceful cooperation.
5 But the very voices that cry hail to this good work are, strange to relate, largely silent or antagonistic to the higher education of the Negro.
6 Thus we have a laborer without capital and without wages, and an employer whose capital is largely his employees' wages.
7 All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.
8 After Emancipation, and still earlier in the North, the Negro churches largely severed such affiliations as they had had with the white churches, either by choice or by compulsion.
9 The Negroes were rent into factions for and against him, the parents were careless, the children irregular and dirty, and books, pencils, and slates largely missing.
10 That part of the flax from which our clothing was made was largely the refuse, which of course was the cheapest and roughest part.
11 Of course the coloured people, so largely without education, and wholly without experience in government, made tremendous mistakes, just as many people similarly situated would have done.
12 It is upon these small gifts, which carry with them the interest of hundreds of donors, that any philanthropic work must depend largely for its support.
13 It is very largely through this effort and influence that during the last few years the subject of industrial education has assumed the importance that it has, and been placed on its present footing.
14 It is largely because it furnishes such a good opportunity to test the backbone of a student that I place such high value upon our night-school.
15 I had been born and largely reared in the lowest depths of slavery, ignorance, and poverty.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.
2 Agriculture is still largely based on traditional methods in some countries.
3 Motorways have largely superseded ordinary roads for long-distance travel.
4 The islands' economy is largely dependent upon tourism.
5 The west of the city was largely unaffected by the bombing.
6 English became the official language for business in spite of the fact that the population was largely Chinese.
7 Their victory was largely a result of their brilliantly orchestrated election campaign.
8 The case against McCarthy is based largely on circumstantial evidence.
9 The firm's success is largely due to Brannon's commercial acumen.
10 A consideration of the cultural context of such concept formations is largely absent from his work.
11 Painters at the time were largely concerned with reproducing external reality.
12 The discussion will be confined largely to general principles.
13 Society largely turns a blind eye to recreational drug use.
14 The fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons.
15 The fund is largely financed through government borrowing.