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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mostly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ I took a tramcar a second time; when it stopped I saw a long queue of mostly Black men.
▪ The criminal trial jury was mostly black.
▪ The clientele was elegant and mostly black, men in beautifully tailored white suits, well-dressed women.
▪ The participants, mostly black males, were criticized for following Farrakhan, who has been accused of anti-Semitism.
▪ Its village is most attractive, with mostly black and white buildings.
▪ Peachtree Street, the main shopping thoroughfare, links the mostly white side of town with the mostly black side.
white
▪ Jack Russell terriers are mostly white with variable colour markings.
▪ These little creatures are mostly white, in the tradition of the popular white child-like Snowbabies.
▪ Peachtree Street, the main shopping thoroughfare, links the mostly white side of town with the mostly black side.
▪ Diversify the mostly white federal judiciary.
▪ The mostly white jury deliberated for three days before returning its verdicts.
▪ Washington the landmark is mostly white, affluent, politically connected and frightened by the violence of the home town.
▪ Compton still felt to me like a quiet, mostly white suburb with narrow cement streets shaded by carob trees.
▪ She was in a law school class waiting for the teacher to arrive, surrounded by mostly white classmates.
young
▪ Finally, on entering work of any kind except domestic service, she would find herself among mostly young women.
▪ Restless cars and people, mostly young, roved aimlessly, exploring the summer night.
▪ They weren't very conventional, they were mostly younger and were into being public and talking about it.
▪ The millwrights, mostly young, motorcyclists, listen with respect.
▪ They must have assembled in a side street and now they were here, mostly young and apparently in fairly good mood.
▪ Witzke points out that his funeral home staff is mostly young and about half are women.
▪ The congregation was mostly young, unmarried, well-educated and upwardly mobile.
▪ More slaves were arrested, mostly young men with a history of troublemaking.
■ VERB
use
▪ The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students.
▪ But like the IBM-compatible platform, it uses mostly off-the-shelf parts.
▪ Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting, with bristle mainly for oils.
▪ Set gill-nets are much shorter, and are used mostly in shallow coastal seas, where they are anchored to the seabed.
▪ In practice, the word seems to be used mostly to refer to animal sonar.
▪ Pre-school facilities in general are mostly used by children of middle-class parents.
▪ At present, admittedly, triticale is mostly used for animal feed.
▪ They were mostly used to discriminate between doubtful grammar school entrants.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mostly, we talk about the kids.
▪ He mostly writes novels, but he's published a book of poetry too.
▪ I do mostly secretarial-type work.
▪ I drink sugar-free colas, mostly.
▪ The people at the theater were mostly college students.
▪ The students here are mostly Swiss and German, but sometimes we get a few Japanese, too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But mostly the songs are universal enough to apply to lots of people.
▪ In fact, Owen was thinking mostly about Zeinab.
▪ It's mostly old people, which means our communities are dying.
▪ Most homes in town get some water in their basements, mostly due to seepage from the rain.
▪ The 11 men they arrested were mostly footsoldiers: the generals were among the 12 women also caught.
▪ The birds are mostly static, and still shown in profile - a single figure on each page with no background.
▪ The computer mostly makes the choice.
▪ The fog now had mostly lifted.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mostly

Mostly \Most"ly\, adv. For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

Wiktionary
mostly

adv. mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.

WordNet
mostly

  1. adv. in large part; mainly or chiefly; "These accounts are largely inactive" [syn: largely, for the most part]

  2. usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here" [syn: by and large, generally, more often than not]

Usage examples of "mostly".

But beyond Beneventum they had mostly to avail themselves of inns, none of which, Julia now realized, could have accommodated them in their old state.

In a time like ours, when we are primarily concerned with the practical application of scientific discoveries, we are mostly accustomed to regard such flights of thought from a past age as nothing but the unessential accompaniment of youthful, immature science, and to smile at them accordingly as historical curiosities.

Log-wood ink marks are mostly reddened by oxalic acid, and alizarin marks become bluish, but aniline inks are unaffected.

U-boats and light surface vessels tried to attack, though with little success, but sea mines, which were mostly laid by aircraft, took a serious toll of Allied shipping and delayed our build-up.

This archive is mostly odds and ends collected later by the Turks as they were gradually beaten back from the edges of their empire.

That kind of thing, mostly, but sometimes the terrorists come up with something really nasty, like the grenade that killed a dozen people in the Crown Center Arcology in Kansas.

Considering what they shall mostly do here, it would be better for them mentally as well as physically if they arrived naked, ready for their very different new life.

The minerals contained in the food are mostly compounds and the digestive process renders these into assimilable factors.

It is mostly the result of spiritual influence of the assimilating group on the newcomers, which is natural and complete when there are no strong barriers between the groups.

It was clear that this was where the ambusher had been living, and it took only a few minutes to see that there was a good supply of food, although mostly just coffee, flour, and dried beans.

He was a foot baller played for Mother well, in the reserves mostly, unless they had a lot of injuries.

Seafood in Australia mostly seems to consist of barramundi, Morton Bay bugs, and everything else.

The same bartender was behind the bar and mostly the same customers were scattered about the room, though this time around Bludgeon was absent.

So they went bedward, and Ralph slept dreamlessly, as was mostly his wont.

The preservatives mostly used are the bisulphites of lime and potash, and these, when employed in small quantities, are generally held to be harmless.