How to Use mostly in a Sentence

mostly

adverb
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  • In the evening, there will be a chance of snow and will be mostly cloudy with a low around 8.
    — Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The details of that are still mostly in the planning stage.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The clientele was mostly hipsters, and there weren’t many of them.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • By 2022, though the fires are absent, the terrain is still mostly brown.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The songs are mostly sung in English but some are in Italian.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The crowd, which was made up mostly of press and stunt performers, cheered.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The funding is now independent in these cities, mostly from the state and one-time grants.
    — Elinor Simek, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The exclusive menu items are mostly sweet treats such as milkshakes and desserts.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 July 2023
  • His warm up act was a video of old black and white movie clips, mostly a homage to his lifelong man-crush Paul Newman.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The crackle of the crunch on the crust is audible, giving way to a center that’s slightly chewy but mostly air.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Efforts by the United States and Saudi Arabia to achieve peace have been mostly frozen.
    — Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And yet, reasons to eat mostly plants are more abundant now than ever.
    — Byirina Ivanova, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • And the early adopters in New York City were mostly immigrant low-wage workers.
    — Curbed, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Here, the feature is dubbed Cadillac Arrival Mode, and its intention is mostly to show off at the valet.
    — Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Filming mostly in the Icelandic language, the shoot is scheduled to begin next fall.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The park, which lies mostly in Wyoming, requires visitors to stay more than 25 yards from bison.
    — Timothy Bella, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • The official trailer for Paramount+’s Zoey 102 is here, and the gang’s (mostly) back together again.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • Wisconsin's park system is one of the few in the U.S. that are mostly self-supporting through the sale of park passes and campsite fees.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Friday will be mostly sunny during the day with a high near 89 and a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms.
    — The Enquirer, 25 June 2023
  • Those that are left mostly endangered – or haven’t been seen in decades and are most likely extinct.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Dry conditions continue overnight with partly to mostly clear skies and overnight lows in the upper 30s to low 40s.
    — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
  • One is a mostly 2.4-mile dirt trail that has some rocky areas with elevation changes.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the high cost and common experience of menopause, it has mostly been ignored in the workplace.
    — Alisha Haridasani Gupta, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Since then, Syracuse has mostly fallen short in the ACC, with only one winning season in league play in 10 seasons.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • On Sunday, after a mostly dry night, the morning skies were partly sunny.
    — Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Marte, a shortstop acquired from Seattle in last year's Luis Castillo trade, has been playing mostly third base this year.
    — Gordon Wittenmyer, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Outside the attempt on his life, Glock lived a mostly reclusive life at his estate in Vienna.
    — Jay Caruso, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
  • When the game returned, ABC did not return all of its camera operators to their posts, causing the game to mostly be shown from an end zone view.
    — Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • His film, which draws on Dahl’s characters but is mostly freshly conceived, is a kind of prequel to the later movie versions.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The union sought a vote in Chattanooga in 2014 and faced no opposition from the company, whose worldwide plants are mostly unionized.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024

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