for the most part

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

“We are looking around at the antifamily state of affairs in our country,” Brown said, “and realizing that, for the most part, people aren’t happy or fulfilled.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But the junior quarterback kept USC’s offense alive for the most part while its rushing attack struggled to move the ball at all.

From Los Angeles Times

Stripped back for the most part to just voice and piano, it’s an earnest work of introspection from a guy who knows how to make tenderness feel like strength.

From Los Angeles Times

These developments are tight clusters of cookie-cutter homes, surrounded for the most part by empty desert or isolated alfalfa fields.

From Salon

Even as administrators have scrambled to figure out how to pay for the damage this winter and spring, they have, for the most part, kept school in session.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• broadly
• commonly
• customarily
• largely
• mostly
• normally
• ordinarily
• publicly
• roughly
• typically
• universally
• usually
• widely