How to Use rule the roost in a Sentence

rule the roost

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  • Lots of great art gets cut if gender or race rule the roost.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Purdue will rule the roost in men’s basketball for at least another week.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
  • In benchrest, and more recently in the realm of precision rifle competitions, mild 6mm cartridges rule the roost.
    — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • The Shelby family might rule the roost in Peaky Blinders, but in real life, the gang looked decidedly different.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2022
  • The Narendra Modi government has reportedly come up with a plan to tame Chinese smartphone makers who now rule the roost in India.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 13 June 2023
  • The Narendra Modi government has reportedly come up with a plan to tame Chinese smartphone makers who now rule the roost in India.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 13 June 2023
  • Materials rule the roost in this ultrachic Milan apartment designed by Hannes Peer.
    — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 18 July 2022
  • The gun lobby and manufacturing industry still rule the roost despite having weakened in recent years.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Nigerian musicians are enjoying an incredible week on the World Digital Song Sales chart, as several artists from the country score new hits while two rule the roost.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The cognitive skills of account managers still rule the roost, and no level of automation can replace the intuition an experienced key account manager brings to the job.
    — Milind Katti, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, monogamous people, who still rule the roost in wider society, often look down on those with alternative relationship styles.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 25 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, monogamous people, who still rule the roost in wider society, often look down on those with alternative relationship styles.
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 25 June 2023
  • Today the Fed, other central banks, and fiscal authorities around the world understand that inflation and unemployment naturally rise or fall together when supply shocks rule the roost.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022

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