Usage examples (35)

• The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
• I felt partly to blame
• Eix says he founded the label partly because tunes these young artists had sent him were burning a hole in his pocket.
• "The title partly refers to the work being an upper crust on the existing trees, and it definitely gets a bit crusty on the ground around here," he explained.