How to Use mainly in a Sentence

mainly

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• Highs are mainly in the low 50s while overnight lows slip to the low to mid-40s.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• Winds are light — mainly from the north at 5 to 10 mph.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• The Colonels kept the ball for the next eight minutes, mainly on the ground with Leen.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2022
• Not enough to matter, as highs will again be mainly in the mid-90s.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• Highs are mainly upper 80s and lows are in the mid- to upper 60s.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• The cost cut is mainly due to lower coal and iron ore costs.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
• Friday night could see a few clouds, with lows mainly in the 60s.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• Tiffani mainly writes about Texas laws and health news.
  — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2025
• Overnight hours are mainly clear with lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• But this motel is unique — the rooms are free and the guests are all migrants, mainly from Venezuela.
  — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
• There are no more than eight guns at the ranch, mainly used to kill feral hogs and snakes, McGillis said.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• The price jump is mainly thanks to a face-lift Burton gave the place during his decade-long stay.
  — Jack Flemmingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Like last night, lows are mainly in the upper 20s and lower 30s.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• The sales decline was mainly in the pork and chicken segments, Tyson said.
  — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2023
• There will be only a slight wind chill as mainly light breezes blow.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
• Overnight, clouds move in, leading to a chance of rain, mainly after 3 a.m.
  — Jane Morice | [e-mail], cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
• The action mainly takes place in Greece, starting in the 1980s, but concludes in present-day Berlin.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
• Winds from the south are mainly 5 to 10 mph, except gustier around storms.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• Is this meant to be a restaurant for the locals, or mainly for the steady stream of tourists passing through Back Bay?
  — Gordon Hamersley, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
• The approach has to be multipronged, and mainly focus on how there just isn’t enough space in the world.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• This change was mainly due to a decrease in sales revenue.
  — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
• Forristall has been with the Browns for two seasons, mainly on the practice squad.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 10 Oct. 2022
• Lows are mainly above freezing, with a range of about 32 to 38 degrees across the region.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• Lows should again mainly settle to the upper 50s and lower 60s.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• The device is mainly rotors, with four of them stretching about four feet from tip to tip.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• What’s sad is that Gunna was mainly in jail because of his bars.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2023
• In the 1800s, those who could take advantage of leisure pastimes were wealthy and mainly white.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
• Skies will be mainly sunny and there’s a decent chance that winds will be lighter, as well.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Japan, which takes deep pride in its homegrown rice, has also scaled up imports of rice from overseas, mainly from the US.
  — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
• Indeed, while many species’ reactions to death are mediated mainly by sight, that certainly wasn’t the case for wiggling roundworms, which have no eyes and no sense of vision.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2025