How to Use monopolize in a Sentence

monopolize

verb

• One group monopolized the camping area, taking almost all of the campsites.
• The company has monopolized the market for computer operating systems.
• He's always monopolizing the conversation.
• Those sets monopolized the top three for 11 weeks that year.
  — Jim Asker, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2018
• Neither team was able to monopolize the lead for long, though.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
• But the judge ruled that such a short, simple phrase could not be monopolized by any one lyricist.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2023
• Finally Delta is no longer able to monopolize the routes and rates.
  — Nancy Daly, Cincinnati.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• For too long, that lane was monopolized by white women on Girls, or Two Broke Girls.
  — refinery29.com, 12 July 2018
• Green smoothies are great and all, but no one type of food should monopolize the meaning of healthy eating.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 30 Mar. 2021
• Ingram will have plenty of time to monopolize the ball in Zion Williamson’s rookie year, though.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Teenagers in our show will still monopolize the phone; kids and dogs still exasperate mom and dad.
  — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
• Drake becomes the second act ever to monopolize the Hot 100's top five in a single week.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2021
• The Keystone State monopolizing the top spots in the rankings after wiping out the 49ers.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2017
• But the plaintiffs in the suit argue that Apple monopolized the distribution of the apps, not the apps themselves.
  — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• Again, these are all important, but must not be allowed to monopolize the CEO’s time.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• The person who monopolizes your time and mind could be very different from you.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• The first half of play had been controlled by the U.S. team, which monopolized possession and had at least two shots on goal to Sweden's zero.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• There’s a fine line—or maybe not even so fine a line—between boosting morale and monopolizing the spotlight.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 9 June 2017
• But for all the glitz of Tuesday’s event, Microsoft didn’t get to monopolize the spotlight for audio this week.
  — Christopher Jones, WIRED, 14 Apr. 1999
• Notre Dame has had its share of elite players, of course, but it hasn't exactly monopolized all the talent.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
• Media is monopolized So some brave voices are the only Hope to break through.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 10 May 2018
• Her time has largely been monopolized by the A-listers who have flocked to her under-the-radar guest house for red carpet prep and LED mask selfies.
  — Rachel Marlowe, Vogue, 6 June 2019
• The top five is the same, with No. 1 Connecticut and No. 2 Purdue continuing to monopolize the first-place votes.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• How to sign up Pig sponsor news:Is Skyline monopolizing the chili game?
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
• What’s more, Laura got an earful from the judges for monopolizing the team’s budget.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
• All six songs also claim the top six spots on Hot Alternative Songs, the first time in the chart’s three-year history that an artist has monopolized the top six.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
• Yet since the end of apartheid in 1994, the governing ANC has worked hard to monopolize the history of liberation.
  — Matthew Graham, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• Free-form conversation rounds out their last ten minutes together, and, though it’s meant to be a back-and-forth, Shara tends to monopolize the talk.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the company has illegally monopolized the debit card market.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 Sep. 2024
• Competitors voiced their concerns quickly, arguing that Live Nation had already monopolized the promotion space more or less since its inception.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024