6 sentences with 'mostly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mostly and other words derived from it.
• « The guests were mostly the children of members of the diplomatic corps, with their girlfriends. »
• « The European population centres were obviously hundreds or thousands of kilometres away and the local people were mostly Jews and Muslims who detested the cruel invaders. »
• « Most Jews and Muslims chose to go into exile, mostly to the relatively tolerant and economically prosperous kingdoms of North Africa or to the (highly tolerant by the standards of European kingdoms at the time) Ottoman Empire. »
• « By the 1620s and against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, the monarchy was bankrupt and Spain itself was divided between numerous small but mostly independent kingdoms and territories. »
• « The Estates General had not met since 1614. Like the British parliament, its original function was to serve as a meeting place for the French king to negotiate with the entire nation for money, mostly in the service of war. »
• « Napoleon's military record matched his ambition: he fought sixty battles in the two decades he was in power, winning all but eight (those he lost were mostly towards the end of his reign). »