True lapis lazuli was chiefly supplied from Afghanistan during the Middle Ages while azurite was a common mineral in Europe at the time.

Library resources for these schools were chiefly supplied by the private collections of the academies' benefactors.

In the former West Berlin, electricity was supplied chiefly by thermal power stations.

In the first decades of the nineteenth century, the City of Glasgow had a large and increasing requirement for coal, for domestic and industrial use, and after the cessation of coal extraction from local pits, this was chiefly supplied from the Lanarkshire coal field, centred near Airdrie, in Monkland.

The story is told in the usual breezy Rex Stout manner - the breeziness being supplied chiefly by Archie Goodwin - and anybody who reads detective stories can tell you that Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe make a combination that is hard to beat.

"In troth," replied the Outlaw, "for I scorn to lie to your Grace, our larder is chiefly supplied with---" He stopped, and was somewhat embarrassed.

The few wants of nature were chiefly supplied from the scanty productions of her little garden, which the neighbors would now and then cultivate for her.

Whatever exigency of the state therefore this tax might be intended to supply, that exigency would be chiefly supplied at the expense of the poor, not the rich; at the expense of those who are least able to supply it, not of those who are most able.