[ UK /mˈə‍ʊstli/ ]
[ US /ˈmoʊsɫi, ˈmoʊstɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. usually; as a rule
    by and large it doesn't rain much here
  2. in large part; mainly or chiefly
    These accounts are largely inactive
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How To Use mostly In A Sentence

  • The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
  • Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
  • In Katine sub-county we hear about rape, defilement and child abuse, mostly of girls.
  • The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
  • Their children were mostly of high school age or attending university which required a great deal of money.
  • Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
  • Hats were popular in the eighties though mostly on girls, so wearing my fedora was a given. The Devil’s in the Diva
  • Responsive phylotypes were mostly proteobacteria in the subarctic and California HNLC areas, but no changes were noted in the subantarctic experiments.
  • The glass of beer was mostly froth.
  • Yes, there were aberrations like the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, but mostly it was a period of peace.
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