How to use "main" in a sentence

Steve called the Utah police for the area and spoke to one the main officers, Kyle Ekker

Now I realise that my love for friends and family is the main reason I want to escape

But the main reason for his unhappiness was that he was forced to live his life with no hope of seeing 'Ursula'.

During the night, the thirty-seven remaining rebels strengthened the main barricade and made more bullets

There were only twenty-six men left, and the main attack on the barricade was going to take place very soon

Some men, including Marius, stayed on the main barricade, while the others built a low stone wall around the door of the wine shop

He climbs up the ladder in a second, and we run into the main room of the bank.

Owen looks back at the car and hopes that no one can see it from the main road

People were coming and going from the main entrance, like last time, but the narrow passageway down the side looked dark and empty

The seat was between the restaurant and the main door of the hotel

Almost a year ago, shortly after Danny had died, Tina had been offered a directing and co-producing job on a huge ten-million-dollar extravaganza to be staged in the two-thousand-seat main showroom of the Golden Pyramid, one of the largest and plushest hotels on the Strip

Twenty minutes later, at 3:45, she stepped onto the smooth cobblestones in front of the hotel's main entrance and handed her claim check to the valet parking attendant

The place was relatively quiet, except for the muffled oceanic roar of the VIP crowd that waited in the main showroom, beyond the velvet curtains.

The sets and props had been moved from the main floor of the stage, and eight folding tables had been set up

Standing near the left proscenium pillar, out of the main flow of the party, they nibbled at pieces of cake, talking about Magyck! And then about the law, Charlie and Helen Mainway, Las Vegas real estate - and, by some circuitous route, superhero movies.

On the right, beyond the craps tables, halfway down the long room, elevated from the main floor, the white-marble and brass baccarat pit catered to a more affluent and sedate group of gamblers; at baccarat, the pit boss, the floor man, and the dealers wore tuxedos

She could see what he was up to, and she was not going to be distracted from her main intention.

Jaborski had intended to drive the minibus off the main highway, onto an old logging trail, if conditions permitted

"Somehow, for some reason, they drove the bus more than four miles off the main highway, four miles off and a hell of a long way up, right up to the damn clouds

"Of course," he said, "exhumation of the body won't answer the main question

With her, sex was a delightful bonus, a lagniappe, but it wasn't the main reason he wanted her beside him

Tina looked out the side window, watching in disbelief as the flames spread from the shattered garage roof to the main roof of the house, long tongues of lambent fire, licking, licking, hungry, bloodred in the last orange light of the afternoon.

No one in the jolly group seemed to realize that he was obstructing the main aisle

Even if they locate the main gate, they can't get any farther than that

The commissaire drove through the open factory gate, stopped by the main entrance, and we got out of the car

Soldiers were telling people to leave and helping them to load carts in the main street

The main road was a boiling stream of people, a river of human beings rushing to the north

But as soon as this feeling came, it left me, and my main problem became hunger

It was a passage about ten metres long, designed to reach the main drain on Putney Hill

The main symptom of liver disease is 'a general feeling of sleepiness and no interest in working.'