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for the most part
In general, usually. For example, For the most part she is very good-humored, or The committee members agree for the most part. [Late 1300s] Also see the synonyms by and large; on the whole.
Example Sentences
The speeches at the Tony Awards, for the most part, skirted politics.
Carrie’s clothes speak of her bravery and individuality, for the most part.
Yet for the most part, she and Grande “were sort of surprised by how fascinated people were with us as a pair,” she says.
“But, for the most part, it’s really nature taking over again and what that looks like in various environments. … There’s places in our story that haven’t been touched by humans in decades.”
The DMS that cycles around our world is produced, for the most part, by marine organisms, most notably the microscopic plants known as phytoplankton that live in the nutrient-rich upper layer of the ocean.
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