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[ 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

How To Use mostly In A Sentence

  • The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Swiss counter-intelligence was very effective, too, and 387 spies, mostly Swiss but including 100 Germans, were captured and brought to trial of whom 17 were executed.
  • In Katine sub-county we hear about rape, defilement and child abuse, mostly of girls.
  • Spin, the tracks were mostly inspired by surfing, except for the instrumental "Lady Dada's Nightmare", which is an homage to Lady Gaga, and the title track, which is about "the world economic crisis. Pitchfork: Latest News
  • The deposits had tinctorial properties of collagen using Masson trichrome stain and the van Gieson method for collagen, although the deposits were mostly dissolved using the Masson trichrome procedure.
  • 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
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