PREPONDERANCE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PREPONDERANCE, such as:
1. There is a preponderance of Blacks in our city.
2. The preponderance of evidence suggests that he's guilty.
2. The preponderance of evidence suggests that he's guilty.
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Meanings and Examples of PREPONDERANCE
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preponderance
n. exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight
n. a superiority in numbers or amount
Classic Sentence:
1 Close at their side stood Heyward, with an interest in both, that, at such a moment of intense uncertainty, scarcely knew a preponderance in favor of her whom he most loved.
2 To attain this end we must secure a preponderance of virtue over vice and must endeavor to secure that the honest man may, even in this world, receive a lasting reward for his virtue.
3 On the other hand, the women broke out of the lodges, with the songs of joy and those of lamentation so strangely mixed that it might have been difficult to have said which passion preponderated.
Example Sentence:
1 There is a preponderance of Blacks in our city.
2 The preponderance of evidence suggests that he's guilty.