How to Use mostly in a Sentence

mostly

adverb

• The fog should clear by noon and leave a mostly cloudy day.
  — oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2022
• 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
• So there won't be any following of the case, such as the Griner case, which was at least mostly open.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 205 miles, mostly to the east of the storm.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
• The trail to the resort site is along a mostly flat shelf that borders the southern shore of Twin Lakes, 22 miles from town.
  — James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
• Skies will be mostly cloudy, but there will be cloud breaks as well with some sun peeking through.
  — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
• The afternoon will be mostly cloudy with a chance for a shower or two.
  — Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2023
• The polling data tell us that the election was mostly about the economy.
  — Randall Stephenson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 2024
• The difference from one phone to the next is mostly for connoisseurs to parse.
  — Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 6 June 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
• This has, in turn, boosted the value of property and shares, which is mostly owned by the rich.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 17 May 2023
• Available for small groups or as one-on-one lessons, courses are mostly the same in Milan and Madrid.
  — Sandra Salibian, WWD, 10 Sep. 2024
• Sunday looks like a good one with partly to mostly sunny skies and highs again from 6o to 65.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• The exclusive menu items are mostly sweet treats such as milkshakes and desserts.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 July 2023
• Hours can be a tad unpredictable, but are mostly 5-10 p.m. for now.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Jan. 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 sets, by the design collective dots, are mostly cheap flats that are far too short for the size of the Lyceum proscenium.
  — Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
• For years, the walking group of mostly older adults known as the Walkie Talkies met several times a week.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 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
• Ward said those were mostly drug crimes with some property crimes.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• The group, mostly young people, cut across racial and gender categories.
  — Odette Yousef, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
• Since the trial began, the Amazons have ventured out about three times a week to paste messages on both sides of the ramparts, but mostly concentrating on the intra-muros area near the courthouse.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025