How to Use predominate in a Sentence

predominate

1 of 2 adjective

• Growth investing has been the predominate strategy in the last five years (see Chart of the Day).
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Housing costs played a predominate role in the number of years $1 million can last.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The fast-spreading Delta variant was the predominate strain during the trial.
  — Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021
• The predominate wind flow from the storm was east to west, creating damaging winds but not pushing the water up the Calcasieu River, Truchelut said.
  — Ashley White, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
• The analysis used a 70 percent threshold for racial groups to determine the predominate racial group in each census tract.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• The predominate amount of attention this spring has been placed on the offense, perhaps for good reason: Frost’s résumé was built on this side of the ball, so expectations are high.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2018
• The result is for vanilla lovers, which is the predominate flavor, with delicate pepper and ginger spices and a toffee finish.
  — Gina Pace, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2021
• For now, however, gendered pronouns remain entrenched, and the predominate view appears to be that when pronouns are spelled out by all, everyone benefits.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 24 June 2019
• The Riverbanks Zoo's study documented that three-fourth of the animals at the zoo exhibited some behavioral response to the 2017 eclipse with the predominate response being to mimic nighttime behaviors.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
• The latter includes six majority Black districts, two majority Hispanic and Latinx and one that does not have any one predominate minority group.
  — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2021
• Growth investing has been the predominate strategy in the last five years (see Chart of the Day).
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Housing costs played a predominate role in the number of years $1 million can last.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The fast-spreading Delta variant was the predominate strain during the trial.
  — Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021
• The predominate wind flow from the storm was east to west, creating damaging winds but not pushing the water up the Calcasieu River, Truchelut said.
  — Ashley White, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
• The analysis used a 70 percent threshold for racial groups to determine the predominate racial group in each census tract.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• The predominate amount of attention this spring has been placed on the offense, perhaps for good reason: Frost’s résumé was built on this side of the ball, so expectations are high.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2018
• The result is for vanilla lovers, which is the predominate flavor, with delicate pepper and ginger spices and a toffee finish.
  — Gina Pace, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2021
• For now, however, gendered pronouns remain entrenched, and the predominate view appears to be that when pronouns are spelled out by all, everyone benefits.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 24 June 2019
• The Riverbanks Zoo's study documented that three-fourth of the animals at the zoo exhibited some behavioral response to the 2017 eclipse with the predominate response being to mimic nighttime behaviors.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
• The latter includes six majority Black districts, two majority Hispanic and Latinx and one that does not have any one predominate minority group.
  — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2021

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predominate

2 of 2 verb

• Older people predominate in that neighborhood.
• The trees are mainly oaks and pines, and the pines predominate.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• By the end of the 1960s, black workers predominated on the lines.
  — Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2019
• Cells as old as the body itself predominate in the brain.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• Dark wood predominates with a sprinkling of red vinyl on the chairs and stools.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Blues, beiges and browns predominate in the first few pages, as a child with a backpack joins the throng on a busy city street.
  — WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Most are between the ages of 13 and 17, and girls predominate among the missing.
  — Almudena Calatrava, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2018
• But the winning side of the Babe’s life predominates in these pages and in history.
  — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• In the short run, the status issue predominates for the markets.
  — Ting Shi, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• But the commercial farms that predominate in the United States tend to plant large plots of a single crop.
  — Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2013
• For those that live far from human dwellings, twigs and leaves predominate.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• The menu includes hot and cold mezza; kebabs and seafood predominate the mains.
  — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Al-Qurayshi is from the part of Iraq where ethnic Turkmen, rather than Arabs, predominate.
  — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Check out how these predominate figures have changed their tune.
  — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2020
• The purple-white tones that predominate in the field are echoed by the artist's color choices for the sky, resulting in a painting that has a monochromatic look.
  — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• His captors spoke Mandarin, not the Cantonese that predominates in Hong Kong.
  — Kelvin Chan, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2017
• The feeling that came to predominate was not hopefulness but whiplash, in sports as in everything else.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• The ancient farmers who came to predominate after most of the tribes like the Hadza disappeared didn’t have it any easier.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Here, too, vivid color predominates: A glow emanates from the pages as a little boy gets dropped off at his grandfather’s house.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• The strains take turns predominating every season, which is Oct. 1 to March 30.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Most are dressed in vaguely medieval garb, with red and green capes predominating.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Which of these Trumps predominates depends on which meeting the president happens to be in.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
• Blues and purples predominate in the mix of angelonia colors, but plant breeders have also brought us bright whites and rich, rosy pinks.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram.com, 25 May 2017
• Controlled burns each spring clear out the oaks and hardwoods that predominate everywhere else.
  — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• But, in an age of nativism and protectionism, other ways of seeing the world now predominate.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
• For those who have lost jobs, homes, or loved ones to the virus, or have been pressed into dangerous working conditions, fear and grief have been more likely to predominate.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
• Varieties with predominating silver or frosty white can lighten a dark area, and so can those with light shades of the other colors.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 11 Apr. 2018
• Vaccine makers nearly matched their product with the flu strain that now predominates.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• On the nose, red and dark fruits predominate, along with floral aromas of violet and hints of balsamic vinegar.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• The levels of protection generated by this year’s flu shot have been higher than what has been seen in other recent years when H3 predominated.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024