main body
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The main body of the show, mounted in capacious glass cabinets, is organized around his most notable books.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Firefighters had anticipated that the blaze would eventually move in this direction and reiterated that the main body of the fire remained inside primary containment lines and that things were still going as planned.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
The main body of fire was extinguished put out at about 02:00 on Wednesday.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 2025
Moreover, this change in calcium levels occurred not only in the main body of the cell but also within substructures such as mitochondria -- the tiny power plants that cells use to produce energy.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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