Sample Sentences for
predominant
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    The predominant odor was of old paint from the Dramatics Club canvas flats.  (source)
    predominant = most noticeable (most powerful or influential)
  • •
    It is strange that all the memories that come have these two qualities. They are always completely calm, that is predominant in them; and even if they are not really calm, they become so.  (source)
    predominant = most noticeable
  • •
    All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them.  (source)
    predominantly = mostly
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 9 word variations
  • •
    The predominant quality of the slow form is viscosity.  (source)
    predominant = most noticeable (most important)
  • •
    "Perhaps he's becoming white," joked another, but the humor masked an underlying question of why Jose Fax had moved his family from Salinas Avenue on the west side, where most Hispanics lived, to a tract home in a predominantly white neighborhood.  (source)
    predominantly = mostly (most common)
  • •
    The image of the sluggish reptile gradually predominated over the image of the quick-moving bird.†  (source)
  • •
    We can assume that large States will want to increase the number of Representatives from their States and their influence will predominate.  (source)
    predominate = be most influential or powerful
  • •
    Whereas, if you think about it, the Africans are running all over America right now, having riots for their civil rights and predominating the sports and popular-music industries.†  (source)
  • •
    I'm a grown person with masculine proclivities and habits of self-defense, but there is a time when all systems of egotism and predominance fail.  (source)
    predominance = power or influence
  • •
    It's twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when the worst side of human nature predominates, when everyone has come to doubt truth, justice and God.†  (source)
  • •
    It is to be noted that the contributions to this building being made by people of different sects, care was taken in the nomination of trustees, in whom the building and ground was to be vested, that a predominancy should not be given to any sect, lest in time that predominancy might be a means of appropriating the whole to the use of such sect, contrary to the original intention.†  (source)
  • •
    While the settlements outside the Sanctuary and the Old College were predominately human.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled predominantly.
  • •
    And if death, and sorrow, and the inexplicable joy that comes from triumph over death and sorrow, if these themes are predominant in my work, past and future, it is because they dominate my memory.  (source)
    predominant = most common or influential
▲ show less (of above)