How to use "partly" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "partly" in popular movie and book plots

  • Jim wins the election, partly because the public knows that Jim is so honest he prosecuted his childhood friend.  - Manhattan Melodrama
  • It is also suggested that the North America of the 1990s is at least partly a police state, as apes and humans are being watched at all times.  - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
  • Taak's hunt for the Transform takes him on a dizzying journey, partly through the Dweller wormhole network itself.  - The Algebraist
  • Sam and the surviving Marines are then flanked by the infected, partly mutated, humans.  - Doom (film)
  • Stink Bomb is about a lab technician, Nobuo Tanaka, battling the flu, and partly based on the Gloria Ramirez incident.  - Memories (1995 film)
  • She does not like all Solarian customs, and was on bad terms with Rikaine, partly from sexual frustration.  - The Naked Sun
  • For reasons only partly comprehensible to himself, Bourne develops a compulsion to hunt Carlos.  - The Bourne Identity (novel)
  • He spends a miserable winter alone in the outdoors, mostly hiding in a cave on the lake that partly freezes over.  - The Ugly Duckling
  • Benedict refuses and Brand, partly attuned to the Jewel, uses it to freeze Benedict in place.  - The Hand of Oberon
  • Told partly in flashback, it is the story of Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford).  - The Way We Were
  • Welch, partly out of exasperation, buys the story and leaves the house.  - Rumors (play)
  • He then returns to Wahlheim, where he suffers still more than before, partly because Charlotte and Albert are now married.  - The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • Rolfe relates that the town later became part of a huge ski resort partly organized by Gordon Lariviere.  - Affliction (film)
  • He is partly sustained through this by his friendship with Camden Farebrother.  - Middlemarch
  • The Scarrens launch an attack against Earth - partly in retaliation, but also to secure a source of Strelitzia plants.  - Farscape
  • He arranges for Jean and her partner Annie (Ann Miller) to get hired for the floor show of a nightclub he partly owns.  - Stage Door

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