By the 19th century, the design of Bermudian vessels had largely dispensed with square topsails and gaff rig, replacing them with triangular main sails and jibs.

The text that follows is uncertain in many points, but these do not affect the narrative and I have largely dispensed with brackets and queries; it does not convey at all the appearance of the original.

It held out the promise of a new dawn in a city where the Democratic organization had long been dominated by whites, and where city jobs and city services were dispensed largely on the basis of race.

The modern name 'Arbroath' became more common in the mid-19th century, with the older name being largely dispensed with by the time of the first edition of the Ordnance Survey Maps.

Mr. Tillard has largely dispensed with that sort of talk these days, and he is more likely to speak passionately of St. Peter than of Sean Combs.

In Malone Dies, movement and plot are largely dispensed with, though there is still some indication of place and the passage of time; the "action" of the book takes the form of an interior monologue.

Towards the end of the 20th century, a sub-genre of revue largely dispensed with the sketches, founding narrative structure within a song cycle in which the material is culled from varied works.

Though I think that once word spreads across the galaxy about the rather more outre delights that can be sampled here, all of that other stuff could be largely dispensed with.

Those largely dispensed with the formality of requiring that his decisions be voted on.

Strauss's careful stage directions therefore have to be largely dispensed with, from the elimination of the symbolic moon to the fatal crushing of Salome under soldiers' shields at the curtain.