bulk

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bulk, each labelled with its topic.

• The bulk of the company's revenue still comes from two aging contracts, and neither will renew after March.

  Business

• The bulk of the plastic pulled from the river was packaging, with fishing gear making up a small remainder.

  Environment

• Because the bulk of the archive burned in 1904, historians reconstruct the period from letters held in private homes.

  History

• The bulk of her savings sits in an index fund, with a small slice kept in cash for emergencies.

  Finance

• The bulk of his points came in the fourth quarter, when the defense had tired and stopped closing out.

  Basketball

• The bulk of the country's exports is still coffee, so one bad harvest shows up immediately in the trade figures.

  Economics

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