How to Use predominance in a Sentence

predominance

noun

• The tribe fought to maintain its predominance.
• The predominance of the North in all this reflects the relative default of the South.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The predominance of grease in the American kitchen, coupled with the habits of hasty eating . .
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• The predominance of the citizen-soldier in America is a thing of the past.
  — Steele Brand, Time, 20 Sep. 2019
• In optics, at least, the predominance of female artists helps the Grammys.
  — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• The main surprise was the predominance of accidents in good weather and good light on marked trails.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 17 May 2018
• But the standout trend of the night was the predominance of vibrant neon dresses, suggesting the stars were ready to make a statement after a year and a half of lockdown.
  — Anna Haines, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The predominance of a few Big Tech companies presents two kinds of challenges for Congress.
  — Adam J. White, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
• The predominance of fine western art and Navaho rugs underlines the fact that Caan went cowboy some time ago.
  — Jean Vallely, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022
• The market is also less liquid than bonds, partly due to a predominance of buy and hold investors.
  — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• Trust a country with a predominance of pale people to make the most believable self-tanner.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 30 Aug. 2017
• China wants military predominance over the chain of islands that bracket the Asian mainland and stretch from the Aleutians to the Philippines.
  — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 18 June 2019
• The predominance of naval looks (see Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton menswear) suggests that pre-fall’s tempo was maintained by a kind of cruise control.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2024
• Any state that goes first is likely to have its own economic driver that will take predominance.
  — Miranda Green, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
• Among the notable differences were the predominance of one-room schools, segregation, and the small number of high school students.
  — David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Sep. 2020
• The first and most impactful phase was the Hegemonic: an attempt to use armed force to end challenges to American predominance.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
• The predominance of black on the runways seemed to acknowledge the human condition while at the same time showing us how the imagination can soar, even in times of sadness.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2023
• The predominance of finance and the winner-take-all structure of the high-tech industry mean that disparities of wealth and power will only grow.
  — John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
• But expanding testing to other groups would make sure that the decline—and the predominance among MSM—is not ascertainment bias.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• Apart from the predominance of duffel bags and moving boxes, yellow ribbons and fatigues, his could be snapshots of any working-class home.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
• Each wishes to claim predominance in its own near abroad, and politicians and pundits tend to address them separately.
  — Mike Coté, National Review, 10 Mar. 2023
• The focus on the British variant is understandable, given its predominance among the variants.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• This isn’t a bad thing—perhaps even an improvement over the predominance of Liberace-ready watches offered in Geneva last year.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
• This is due to the predominance of tender offers in Europe in which there is usually a competitive bidding process in which the lowest-cost product wins out.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• One of the things that distinguishes this collection is the predominance of separates.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 19 July 2022
• However, some thinkers, such as Herder and Denis Diderot, questioned sight’s predominance.
  — Chunjie Zhang, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2020
• That delusion springs from American liberal elites’ failure to accept the fact of their own predominance.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2021
• Some meteorites show a slight predominance of left-handed amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, suggesting that the influence came from outer space.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
• Once football gets mentioned, heads turn with territorial rights at stake because of the predominance of football once the calendar turns to fall.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• Analysis of the labradoodle genome revealed a predominance of poodle.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024