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Examples of chiefly in a Sentence
our video collection consists chiefly of comedies, but we have a few horror movies
First Known Use of chiefly
14th century
First Known Use of chiefly
1870
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1 : above all : most importantly We're chiefly concerned with safety.
2 : for the most part Owls are active chiefly at night.
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