PREVAIL in a Sentence
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140 example sentences for PREVAIL, such as:
1. But Sir John could not prevail.
2. A similar situation prevails in America.
3. We hope that common sense would prevail.
4. The style prevails and picks up momentum.
5. This custom prevails over the whole area.
2. A similar situation prevails in America.
3. We hope that common sense would prevail.
4. The style prevails and picks up momentum.
5. This custom prevails over the whole area.
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Meanings and Examples of PREVAIL
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prevail
v. induce; be greater in strength or influence; triumph; win out
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1 The republican institutions of our country have produced simpler and happier manners than those which prevail in the great monarchies that surround it.
2 Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to complete my work.
3 But Sir John could not prevail.
4 After her entrance, Colonel Brandon became more thoughtful and silent than he had been before, and Mrs. Jennings could not prevail on him to stay long.
5 Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement.
6 The train to Tara is the train to Macon and the same conditions prevail.
7 But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
8 Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavored to prevail upon Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain.
9 The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle.
10 But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and excitement of so busy and important an evening.
11 Yet even there, on the hill of Calvary, He founded the holy catholic church against which, it is promised, the gates of hell shall not prevail.
12 There was an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever met with in a lunatic; and he took it for granted that his reasons would prevail with others entirely sane.
13 The resonant voice of the Hungarian was about to prevail in ridicule of the spurious lutes of the romantic painters when Segouin shepherded his party into politics.
14 From this fact it may be gathered what honesty and religion still prevail among this people.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
15 I repeat, therefore, that to prevail against well-disciplined infantry, you must meet them with infantry disciplined still better, and that otherwise you advance to certain destruction.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 I am sure that common sense will prevail in the end.
2 Those beliefs still prevail among certain social groups.
3 In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
4 We hope that common sense would prevail.
5 I hope the country is finally turning a corner where common sense will once again prevail over the insanity of the last 30 years.
6 I admired the creativity which prevailed among the young writers.
7 The use of horses for ploughing still prevails among the poorer farmers.
8 This custom prevails over the whole area.
9 The East Wind prevails over the West Wind.
10 A similar situation prevails in America.
11 The style prevails and picks up momentum.
12 Very great excitement prevails throughout the country.
13 How people in a certain era bury their dead says much about the prevailing attitudes toward death.
14 The prevailing view is that he has done a good job in difficult circumstances.
15 The wall gives some protection from the prevailing wind.