How to Use dominant in a Sentence

dominant

1 of 2 adjective

• It is the dominant culture in the region.
• The company is now dominant in its market.
• Have a few dominant arms to ride at the back end of the bullpen.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• This is not an easy sport to flip the switch and be dominant in.
  — Scott Kushner, NOLA.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• The better ones tend to see the more dominant creative force in the duo lead the way.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2021
• When Round 1 was over, the Rays had a dominant 8-3 win.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 June 2023
• The Jazz were still dominant with him on the floor, but just less so than last year.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
• Hold the peach in your non-dominant hand with the stem side toward the ceiling.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
• The defense was dominant and the offense didn’t turn the ball over.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Allen has been dominant down the stretch, leading the Bills to wins in their last five games.
  — Andy Nesbitt, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2021
• Or their desire to be in the good graces of a dominant movement.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
• This guy has been around the block and back, but was as dominant as ever in 2020.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• The Cougars have also been dominant in most of those wins.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• Louisville has all of the tools to be a dominant defensive team.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2020
• As the months passed, what was once a feature of their lives became the dominant force.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
• The black is still dominant but the color lends an image all the tones of life: warmth, cold, depth, and light.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
• The most dominant men’s tennis player over the first half of this decade.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• The talent is growing, and the teams at the top are downright dominant.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• There was a time, not too long ago, when the Seahawks were near-dominant at home.
  — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2020
• The defense has been dominant and the offense has run wild.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• Sale was dominant in his first year and a half in Boston.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most dominant of them all?
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2023
• Just come out here and be one of the dominant defensive tackles in the league.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 14 June 2017
• Well, there are a couple of things that are quite dominant.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2024
• Horner’s Red Bull Racing team, meanwhile, has been a dominant force in the sport of F1 for years.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
• What is the role of dominant and subordinate dogs in the process?
  — Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• There won’t be a more dominant player in her sport for quite some time.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• He's been dominant for nearly 15 years and still is ranked number two in the world.
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 17 Jan. 2018
• Trim any frayed edges off of the fabric, then pinch the pieces flat against each other with your non-dominant thumb.
  — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2017
• Sometimes there is trading in the middle of the game if one team is too dominant.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 19 June 2021

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dominant

2 of 2 noun

• The running game still hasn’t found a dominant back since Lynch left.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
• This was once viewed as the dominant of the league's two divisions, with No.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019
• Others, like Yul and Kim, were revered one-timers who hoped to show their first dominant runs were not a fluke.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 May 2020
• But the system has changed to become point-guard dominant.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• The Jags are run-dominant and are toast if rookie Leonard Fournette gets hurt.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Sunday’s blowout loss and last week’s stunning defeat to the Jets have erased all the goodwill coach Zac Taylor earned from a 5-2 start and a dominant over the Ravens.
  — C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• As the first half progressed, and with England dominant, the opportunity was there to put the game away.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• Christian Brothers: The Oregon commit is as dominant of a tight end as this area has seen.
  — Joe Davidson, sacbee, 2 Nov. 2017
• The complaint also notes Renard Spivey appears to be right-hand dominant and he was shot through his left thigh area.
  — Christina Maxouris and Sheena Jones, CNN, 31 July 2019
• The Indians' dominant Andrew Miller is redefining the role of a set-up man, often serving as a set-up to the set-up man.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2017
• The vaccine also has been found to have good efficacy against the variant dominant in South Africa.
  — Mogomotsi Magome and Andrew Meldrum, Star Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021
• Those who are vata dominant should minimize cold and raw foods and too much caffeine.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• For about a month during the 2015 season, Young was as dominant a pass rusher as anyone in college football.
  — Steve Jones, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2017
• The process of becoming quad-dominant usually starts with tight hips.
  — Alexa Tucker, SELF, 8 July 2017
• Researchers have also found that the variant dominant in the U.K. is also more deadly than the original virus.
  — Karel Janicek, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
• No country artist was as dominant of an artistic and commercial force for a longer period of time than George Jones.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 10 July 2017
• Knowing that, the non-dominant is always paying attention to those in power and what is going on around them.
  — Kellee Terrell, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2019
• Dominant in the air against most opponents and also a lethal poacher, Icardi will be supplied with crosses from both wings.
  — SI.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• After six wins last season behind a dominant, if under the radar, nationally ranked defense, WVU could be poised for a move in the Big 12.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 28 May 2021
• But in recent years the rise of the internet and the accession of central and eastern European states have made English dominant.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• The elite pitchers of the last 20 seasons who required Tommy John surgery amid dominant runs came back to perform at solid to exceptional levels.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2020
• Fans had a love/hate relationship with Jackson’s ball-dominant, over-dribbling game.
  — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile, the options among single-varietal or Cab Franc–dominant blends from Napa, Sonoma and elsewhere around the globe are dizzying.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2023
• High pressure remaining dominant also means clouds should be few and far between.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 16 June 2018
• Will Sabonis shed his reluctance to shoot when facing up, spread better than his predecessor Thad Young and not be so left-hand dominant?
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2019
• Its once-dominant Hepatitis C franchise, which turned Gilead into one of the most important drug companies in the world earlier this decade, is now in decline.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• Though once dominant in the classroom, Apple has slipped behind Google and Microsoft in recent years, which sell lower cost tablets and laptops that better fit tight school budgets.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2018
• If Duarte pans out, he's considered a more versatile version of McDermott who is right-hand dominant and primarily used on one side of the floor because of it.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2021
• Researchers at the National Center for Voice and Speech theorize that singing is a more right-hemisphere brain function, while speaking is more left-hemisphere dominant.
  — Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2015
• Experts think the AstraZeneca vaccine could still offer better protection against severe disease and death caused by the variant dominant in South Africa, but that has not yet been tested.
  — Mogomotsi Magome, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 1 May 2024