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mostly Adverb

— If something is mostly true, empty, sunny, etc., it is close to 100% so. The cup was mostly empty. Mostly, it should be sunny today.

mostly

— adverb (= largely) in large part; mainly or chiefly These accounts are largely inactive — adverb (= by and large) usually; as a rule by and large it doesn't rain much here

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mainly generally largely for the most part chiefly almost usually principally primarily predominantly by and large above all nearly more often than not at most as a general rule widely roughly particularly ordinarily on the whole much most of all majority in general too much time and again substantially plenty of often most often most of the time most likely many times many lots of lastly in the main greatly generally speaking frequently firstly first of all first and foremost feckly essentially especially considerably commonly closely

Topics mostly topics

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States Quantity All

Most, almost all

What words indicate that most of a group is of one kind.

mostly mainly largely predominantly predominate be in the majority a preponderance
What words indicate that something happens or someone does something more than anything else?

mostly mainly in most cases most of the time

Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations Limitation of topic

In general

What words indicate that something is generally true?

in general generally mostly on the whole in most cases

Examples mostly examples

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Simple sentences

The atmosphere mostly consists of nitrogen and oxygen.

Jupiter is made mostly of gases.

The pain has mostly gone away.

The movie was cast mostly with Americans.

Success depends mostly on effort.

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

Father mostly plays golf on Sunday.

How much beer people drink depends mostly on the weather.

I like to eyeball my ingredients, mostly because I don't feel like washing my measuring cups over and over.

Tom eats mostly fruits and vegetables, and only eats meat about once a week.

I mostly agree with what he said.

Mostly criminals are as naive as children.

Even though Tom eats mostly junk food, he rarely gets sick and his BMI is in the normal range.

The work mostly consists of removing undergrowth and clearing away litter.

Jupiter is made mostly of hydrogen and helium gases.

I mostly have fruit for breakfast.

The passengers on board were mostly Japanese.

They were mostly women.

Bricks consist mostly of clay.

Mostly likely, he's come back from the workshop.

The food at the canteen isn't very good, and the menu contains mostly unhealthy foods, too salted or sweetened.

Movie subtitles

We can do it together, you and me, but mostly me!

Mostly me!

But mostly.

I mean, you make jokes about your body, and they're pretty funny and mostly accurate, but with your big boobs, that dress would look great.

I had it mostly contained.

I had it mostly contained!

Mostly we think Delamare looks like us.

I-I thought that being pregnant would be this magical thing, but mostly I'm so nervous of doing something wrong, of hurting the baby somehow.

Mostly positive, actually.

The filming was done, mostly, in the same places where Heinrich Zille found the reasons for his works.

Sometimes I play the solitaire, but mostly I practice my singing.

That's just what we gets, mostly.

It was mostly a map.

He's got a hand in everything, legitimate and otherwise, mostly otherwise. And he gets away with it?

I'm sure, mostly, they're just happy that you're alive.

Not that it all makes sense. It's mostly superstitious nonsense, but we are living beings.

Mostly service routine.

Now we're going to see more physical effects - mostly wire effects - coming up to get material out of his room and down to the street.

The tubes were mostly concealed, running up a trouser leg.

They're mostly village boys.

But due to false claims. they mostly are.

That's why she went away, mostly.

And mostly killing. Had one here just the other night.

It was mostly me, Captain Butler.

Mostly of life becoming too real for me, I suppose.

Yes, mostly puss.

I brought my army here partly from anger, mostly from love.

W-W-WE MOSTLY DO THIS TO PEOPLE WHO. don't know that we're doing it to them.

Some, but mostly lions and tigers and bears.

Some, I guess. But mostly cow bones.

Oh, dull things mostly. Nutritious yet not fattening.

Every one of them. Mostly I remember the last one.

Yes, but mostly Indian squaws, I presume.

Oh, I know it's mostly my own fault.

Mostly cows.

But mostly you.

News and current affairs

In a matter of hours, more than 3,000 innocent people, mostly Americans, but also people from 115 other countries, had their lives suddenly and violently taken from them.

Although economic theory today is much improved, if we ask people about the cause of the current crisis, we will mostly get the same answers.

Montenegro, Serbia's junior partner in the Yugoslav federation, mostly boycotted the election while Albanians in Kosovo ignored them.

Cyber war and cyber espionage are largely associated with states, while cyber crime and cyber terrorism are mostly associated with non-state actors.

The difference between Czechoslovakia and Italy or Germany is mostly one of 50 years.

By contrast, subsidizing current, ineffective solar power or ethanol mostly wastes money while benefiting special interests.

The arguments against maintaining kings and queens are mostly quite rational.

Queen Victoria, mostly of German blood, did not regard herself as a monarch of Britons alone, but of Indians, Malays, and many other peoples, too.

Three completed trade agreements (with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia) have been languishing for years, mostly because of deep opposition to free trade from labor unions and the Democratic Party.

NEWPORT BEACH - It has been raised more than 70 times in the last 50 years, mostly without commotion.

I want to deviate from my usual economic theme this month and focus instead on the system by which the press - mostly the American press - covers government nowadays.

Reassuring Iraq's Sunnis that they have a place in the new Iraq will also reassure neighboring Sunni governments, which have mostly turned a blind eye to the support for the insurgency that has come from their lands.

The agenda of the Security Council was and remains power, and meeting crises, mostly with military means.

Surprisingly, there is no well-received explanation, because this boom's ultimate causes are mostly psychological.

African countries search endlessly, and mostly fruitlessly, for the small amounts of funding needed for their purchases of fertilizer and improved seeds.

VIENNA - European politics is mostly shaped by events and anniversaries.

As political power tends to polarize around economic power, sub-Saharan African Muslims have been under-represented in these mostly centralized political systems.

Political Islam is an almost unknown phenomenon in this region (the Islamic Party of Kenya was never registered, for example), and Muslim organizations have mostly focused on welfare and rights.

Whether they like it or not, the majority of sub-Saharan African Muslims are represented by states that are mostly secular, Christian, or dominated by other religions.

Jubilee 2000 succeeded mostly in getting empty promises.

How much more worrying, then, is such concentrated ownership in new democracies and developing countries, where the check of civil society is mostly absent?

The introduction of the euro was supposed to spur the less dynamic and competitive European economies, mostly in the south of the continent, to drive down their costs and increase their competitiveness.

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