DOMINANT in a Sentence
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111 example sentences for DOMINANT, such as:
1. She's the dominant child in the group.
2. The British were formerly dominant in India.
3. For the moment that was the dominant thought.
4. She was the dominant partner in the marriage.
5. She was the dominant partner in the relationship.
2. The British were formerly dominant in India.
3. For the moment that was the dominant thought.
4. She was the dominant partner in the marriage.
5. She was the dominant partner in the relationship.
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Meanings and Examples of DOMINANT
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dominant
a. exercising influence or control
n. (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1 She had heard Ashley say that the South was being treated as a conquered province and that vindictiveness was the dominant policy of the conquerors.
2 It was the dominant animal failing to remember in the supreme moments the forceful causes of various superficial qualities.
3 Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women.
4 He was generous to his friends and equals, but proud, dominant, overbearing, to inferiors, and utterly unmerciful to whatever set itself up against him.
5 The psychologist tells us of a state, in which the affections and images of the mind become so dominant and overpowering, that they press into their service the outward imagining.
6 If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one.
7 I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself.
8 Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.
9 For the moment that was the dominant thought.
10 He was a gentleman, and he hated him for that, hated him through some curious race-instinct for which he could not account, and which for that reason was all the more dominant within him.
11 His dominant intellectual passion was for science.
12 For a moment she stood there, eminent, dominant, on the soap box with the blue and sailing clouds behind her.
13 He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.
14 The one, austere, high-nosed, eagle-eyed, and dominant, was none other than the illustrious Lord Bellinger, twice Premier of Britain.
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15 It was an unhappy life that I lived; and its one dominant anxiety, towering over all its other anxieties, like a high mountain above a range of mountains, never disappeared from my view.
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1 The British were formerly dominant in India.
2 The promise of tax cuts became the dominant element in the campaign.
3 She's the dominant child in the group.
4 Unemployment will be a dominant issue at the next election.
5 The dominant feature of the room was the large open fireplace.
6 She was the dominant partner in the relationship.
7 She was the dominant partner in the marriage.
8 Numerous persons with only a few Negroid traits annually pass over and are ab-sorbed into the dominant Caucasoid population.
9 The internal organization of state policy-making has tended to reflect the lines of cleavage within dominant economic groups of civil society.
10 Economically, the centre of Spain has lost its dominant role.
11 Minority groups tend to internalize the values of the dominant society.
12 If the projects are successful, they will help place Russia firmly on the map as one of the world's dominant energy suppliers.
13 In fact, Asia's exporting prowess is so dominant that Dubai and Rotterdam are the only two ports from outside the region to even make the list.
14 Political analysts realized that Yeltsin's defiance of the attempted coup should foreshadow his emergence as the dominant figure of the new Russian republic.
15 What you're seeing is a dominant defense and a balanced offense loaded with playmakers that has become potent under the junior quarterback.