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FOR THE MOST PART
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In large part; mainly or chiefly
Example:
These accounts are largely inactive
Synonyms:
for the most part; largely; mostly
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Context examples:
For two hours we rambled about together, in silence for the most part, as befits two men who know each other intimately.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mesangial cells are phagocytic and for the most part separated from capillary lumina by endothelial cells.
(Mesangium, NCI Thesaurus)
There were folk, too, to be met upon the road—beggars and couriers, chapmen and tinkers—cheery fellows for the most part, with a rough jest and homely greeting for each other and for Alleyne.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Not that he will for an instant admit that his rival could be right, but he is less persistent in his incessant objections, and has sunk for the most part into an observant silence.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were some jovial faces amongst them, but the older officers, with their deep-lined cheeks and their masterful noses, were, for the most part, as austere as so many weather-beaten ascetics from the desert.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Round the corner from the by-street, there was a square of ancient, handsome houses, now for the most part decayed from their high estate and let in flats and chambers to all sorts and conditions of men; map-engravers, architects, shady lawyers and the agents of obscure enterprises.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He was, for the most part, gay and cheerful with us; but sometimes his eyes rested on her, and he fell into a brooding state, and was silent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For the most part, the new eclipses due will be beneficial and arrive as a full moon lunar eclipse in Sagittarius on June 5, a full moon lunar eclipse in Gemini on November 30, and as a new moon solar eclipse in Sagittarius on December 14.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The Abbot, from his point of vantage, looked down on the two long lines of faces, placid and sun-browned for the most part, with the large bovine eyes and unlined features which told of their easy, unchanging existence.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It floods the banks, extends in great lagoons over a monstrous waste of country, and forms a huge district, called locally the Gapo, which is for the most part too marshy for foot-travel and too shallow for boating.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
