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• Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.From the entry dysfunctional
• He tried to make reparations to those he had injured, partly to save face.From the entry save face
• The aggressiveness of various sulfate salts towards concrete is partly related to solubility.From the entry aggressiveness
• Sori in the axils of lamina branches, partly immersed; involucre bell- or trumpet-shaped, or obconical, usually 2-lipped; receptacle generally exserted.From the entry immersed
• A semiligneous stem is partly woody and partly herbaceous.From the entry semiligneous
• Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.From the entry summer holiday
• At the same time, the kinds of affectivities evoked in us, such as fear and gratitude, also depend partly on how we envision and interpret the objects in question.From the entry affectivity
• It's worth being clear from the outset, the Chinamaxxing phenomenon seems partly manufactured.2026 May 6, Michael Walker, 1:36 from the start, in Two Weeks in China Blew My Mind, Novara Media. From the entry Chinamaxxing
• And it was that smartlessness that partly sank Saul as king of Israel.2021, Rev Emmanuel Oghene-Emmanuel, Regrettable Relatives, revised (second) edition, Xlibris UK, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry smartlessness
• Of course, the drop is partly the flipside of dollars being in demand.2020 March 19, Marcus Ashworth, “Cheap Sterling Has Reasons to Be Cheaper”, in The Washington Post. From the entry flipside
• They are partly associated with the Querquetulanae, the Roman nymphs of the oak grove.2019, Maria Papachristos, Muses - Nymphs - Other Gods, page 55. From the entry Querquetulanae
• The motivation in Slavic is thought partly to be a desire for disambiguity.2018, Aaron D. Rubin, Studies in Semitic Grammaticalization, page 114. From the entry disambiguity
• The trend was partly a manifestation of the Silicon Valley youthquake that was powering the dot-com economy.2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties. From the entry youthquake
• The court of the first instance issued the judgement partly awarding monetary compensation for the plaintiffs.2016, Waseda Bulletin of Comparative Law Vol. 34. From the entry State of Japan
• In the kitchen, partly partitioned by a curtain, the cateress and her helper were busy.2015, Joan Williams, Lisa C. Hickman, Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces. From the entry cateress
• The cathode electrodes were only partly submerged in the catholyte to allow for an ‘air-wicking’ aerobic configuration.2015 July 15, “Anditalea andensis ANESC-S T - An Alkaliphilic Halotolerant Bacterium Capable of Electricity Generation under…. From the entry catholyte
• I figure NeurodiversiME partly works by scraping and sculpting content, so a few micro-plagiarisms are appropriate.2015 September 2, Jo Lindsay Walton, “The Internet of Oh and One More Things”, in Blogspot, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2024. From the entry whevs
• Partly to profits at various levels, e.g. higher wages for the miners, partly to sloppery.2012, Riazuddin, Physics and Contemporary Needs - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry sloppery
• Partly as a 'screw you' to all the people who treated me so badly, to be honest.2011, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Tim Waggoner, Ghost Trackers, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry screw you
• This movement, partly religious and partly political, gave rise to the independent principality of the vladikas.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 585. From the entry Vladika
• Chilly from the start, she grows ever frostier as the book proceeds, partly because Mr.2010 November 28, Janet Maslin, “A New York Tale of Art, Money and Ambition”, in The New York Times. From the entry frosty
• Their relationships with modern gnathostomes have remained mysterious, partly because their un-mineralized endoskeletons rarely fossilized.2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457…. From the entry endoskeletons
• Mortensen’s weariness is partly that he is famous for obsessive overpreparation.2009 September 13, Charles Mcgrath, “Big Gun Takes on the Apocalypse”, in New York Times. From the entry overpreparation
• This is no doubt partly because everybody understands he's in like Flynn.2009 June 4, Michael Wolff, “The Power and the Story”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry in like Flynn
• Gore, and the nation, missed a chance to find out for sure, partly through Mr.2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times. From the entry outlitigate
• We conclude that oil impregnation occurred prior to (or partly during) adularization.2007, Mrs. Gambold, The American Journal of Science. From the entry adularization
• This is partly because of my opinion that capitalism can't defend secularism against religious fundamentalism.2006, Gao, Re: To hell with the SWP and their muslim friends!, alt.politics.socialism.trotsky. From the entry Muslimophobe
• Bookchin, in turn, called deep ecologists "eco-fascists," partly because they wanted to limit the population radically.2006 August 7, Douglas Martin, “Murray Bookchin, 85, Writer, Activist and Ecology Theorist, Dies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry ecofascist
• Oddworld Inhabitants, partly because it’s a nice pun, wants you to believe that Oddworld Just Got Stranger.2004 October, “Oddworld Stranger”, in Dan Toose, editor, Edge Australia, Bondi Junction, N.S.W.: Derwent Howard, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30…. From the entry normaller
• Her misdemeanors may be partly the expression of her inner revolt.Quoted in 2002, The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler (page 32). From the entry misdemeanor
• The scientists had partly suspected that the maneless males were adolescents mistaken for adults by amateur observers.2002 April, Philip Caputo, “Maneless Lions”, in National Geographic. From the entry maneless
• Under the old flexi-time arrangement, core times (defined partly by the branches' opening hours) were specified.2002, Isik Zeytinoglu, International Industrial Relations Association. European Regional Congress, Flexible Work Arrangements…. From the entry core time
• Sprinkle partly cooked omelette with onion and capsicum mixture, cheese, cabanossi and olives.2000, Food, People, and Technology: An Integrated Approach to Home Economics: Book 2, 2nd edition, page 205. From the entry cabanossi
• A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why, page 30. From the entry blacklash
• The vigas were partly down and hunters or herdsmen had built fires in the floor.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy; 1), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN. From the entry viga
• That's partly because of the high level of professionalism and efficiency of M.1990 December 21, Albert Williams, “Closer Than Ever”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry secureness
• Werner Erhard's highly successful est cult is partly derived from Scientology.1985, Rodney Stark, Religious movements: Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers, Paragon House Publishers, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry Scientology

Meaning of partly

1. adverb In part, or to some degree, but not completely.

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Questions about partly in a sentence

How do you use partly in a sentence?

Partly is used as an adverb. For example: “They had partly finished the house, so they could move in before winter.”

What is a short sentence with partly?

“The car was partly visible in the garage.”

What does partly mean?

Partly means in part, or to some degree, but not completely.