How to Use preponderance in a Sentence

preponderance

noun

• The preponderance of days since then have had readings in the 90s.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2020
• The weather here is modest for the preponderance of the year.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• This means that the preponderance of waste in my trash bin is plastic.
  — Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• There’s been a preponderance of straight white men on stage, and that’s what we’re used to seeing.
  — Stephanie Clifford, ELLE, 8 Mar. 2023
• Many think the preponderance of baseball’s three true outcomes — the home run, the walk and the strikeout — is harming the sport.
  — Mike Digiovanna Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• With the preponderance of towers and flags, the structures would have been at home in a medieval faire.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 5 July 2021
• But there there’s been a preponderance, a surfeit, of podcasts of late, and God bless all of them.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2022
• The preponderance of snowbirds (the human ones) tends to be at the wheel of a car or RV for a lot of their snowbird efforts.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• But the preponderance of opinion was on the other side.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2015
• That fits the preponderance of cases that emerged in and around the market, Worobey argues.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2021
• The preponderance of the evidence is clear: More guns means more deaths, both from self-harm and harm to others.
  — Star Tribune, 9 June 2021
• The defense has the burden of proof by a preponderance of the evidence.
  — Brian Witte, Star Tribune, 14 July 2021
• Not all the neighborhoods with a preponderance of pools are so high-end.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Weier's lawyers had the burden to prove that the defense applied to her by a preponderance of the evidence.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
• In a civil case, the plaintiff must prove the case by a preponderance of evidence.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 12 July 2018
• All the same, timber theft is a crime, and the preponderance of evidence was damning.
  — Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The preponderance of the evidence would seem to suggest that the club will take a hit in the guts of its starting rotation this time around.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• That is not proof of 'abatement' by a preponderance of the evidence.
  — Wayne Drash, CNN, 7 July 2019
• Since the preponderance of spiral pasta is sold in 12-ounce packages, that’s what my recipe calls for.
  — Robin Miller, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
• The union wants arbitrators to rule on whether or not the chief or the city proved its case by a preponderance of the evidence, a tougher standard.
  — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Louis, said the preponderance of suspects who were armed is in line with national trends.
  — Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2021
• Maybe the preponderance of flowers and cityscapes, and the dearth of human beings, on my feed had tipped off my admirer.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• There’s a preponderance of evidence, which brings me to Woody Allen.
  — A.o. Scott and Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
• The preponderance of buildings are postwar slabs on the avenues with smaller prewar ones on the side streets.
  — Curbed, 19 Dec. 2022
• The burden of proof in a civil case is a preponderance of the evidence, which experts say is defined as greater than 50% that the claim is true.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• No guard hairs were apparent to the naked eye, perhaps because of the preponderance of pashmina in the weave.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• The preponderance of attacks all over the world has left players rattled and cautious.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2017
• The preponderance of the house’s windows or doorways looked into different parts of the house.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• And the bloody mary made with the brand’s own mix was also a hit — again, because of the preponderance of the signature ingredient.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
• What’s more, a 2021 review reported a huge preponderance of male-only studies in two decades of research on the brain structure of autistic people.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024