How to Use dominion in a Sentence

dominion

noun

• The countries fought for dominion of the territory.
• The U.S. has dominion over the island.
• The glory of the book lies in her dominion over her own hours.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.
  — David Treuer, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• To trap something with purpose in the cage of emblems is to tame it, to hold dominion over it.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• There would be oaths to the king and a kind of dominion status like that of Canada or New Zealand.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
• For thousands of years now, mammals have held dominion over the land.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
• Could this be the beginning of the end of meat — or at least red meat, with its aura of dominion and glory?
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• At the very least, the righthander is the latest symbol of New York's dominion over Minnesota.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• The big question: who should have dominion over these Golcondas of the seas?
  — Chad Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
• Most ant queens hold dominion over a large colony of workers, who forage for food, guard their home and tend to her majesty’s eggs.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 16 Dec. 2019
• The things fathers pass on to their sons extend far beyond the dominion of the Y chromosome.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2018
• Upper air is the domain of F-35s and spy planes, while lower air is the dominion of helicopters and drones.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2021
• It is girded with jewels and topped with a jeweled cross to show Jesus’ dominion over the world.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• In 1907, New Zealand went from being a colony to a dominion within the British Empire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Near the turn of the century, the messianic Ghost Dance spread rapidly among the tribes of the West, prophesying the return of the dead and the end of settler dominion.
  — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• The people of Gaza are desperately ready for a change, and eager to end the dominion of both Israel and Hamas over their lives.
  — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
• The ultimate truth is that no claim should achieve dominion over all others.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• And perhaps, in the future, more of those memorials should be placed in space—the dominion these astronauts worked to reach.
  — National Geographic, 27 Jan. 2016
• And perhaps, in the future, more of those memorials should be placed in space—the dominion these astronauts worked to reach.
  — National Geographic, 27 Jan. 2016
• Set a better stage in which to gain dominion over our emotional states.
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 1 Sep. 2022
• Regalia to be deployed, such as the orb, are not just symbols of the monarch, but display a cross that sits atop the earth, signaling Christ’s dominion.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, hulking lizards such as Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the Earth, while immense flying reptiles known as pterosaurs held dominion over the skies.
  — Mark Witton, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2016
• The Wolves are a paramilitary group that overwhelmed the army soon after the outbreak and now hold dominion over some parts of Seattle.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 15 June 2020
• Tied to that discovery was the amazing theory that, after humankind, rats or ants would take over the dominion of the world.
  — Longreads, 22 May 2017
• The Hint: In the language of the Romans, something like together-dominion, but shortened.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
• The revolution, in other words, lay at the feet of one thing alone: a would-be permanent dominion of slavers and their enslaved.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
• Boosting Gretel’s age puts her on the cusp of womanhood and gives her dominion over her younger brother.
  — Mark Kennedy, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
• Ukraine’s faltering performance in the past year has raised the grim prospect of a Russian victory, which would see Kyiv fall under Moscow’s imperial dominion.
  — Jakub Grygiel, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
• But lucky for those who fear the eventual dominion of robot overlords, there is one area where artificial intelligence falls flat: humor.
  — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024