How to Use dominion in a Sentence

dominion

noun
  • The countries fought for dominion of the territory.
  • The U.S. has dominion over the island.
  • The glory of the book lies in her dominion over her own hours.
    — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
  • For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.
    — David Treuer, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
  • What if humans were to lose their dominion over the planet, too?
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The dominion is a point of pride for those forced to leave so much of themselves behind.
    — Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
  • For thousands of years now, mammals have held dominion over the land.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • Set a better stage in which to gain dominion over our emotional states.
    — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • To trap something with purpose in the cage of emblems is to tame it, to hold dominion over it.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The ultimate truth is that no claim should achieve dominion over all others.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Dominion is emerging as one of the strongest stocks in the sector.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Most ant queens hold dominion over a large colony of workers, who forage for food, guard their home and tend to her majesty’s eggs.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Could this be the beginning of the end of meat — or at least red meat, with its aura of dominion and glory?
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • It is girded with jewels and topped with a jeweled cross to show Jesus’ dominion over the world.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • Now, one of those secrets—the key to the rise and dominion of dinosaurs—might have finally been revealed.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Our nation does not accept the notion that one class of people holds dominion over any other class of people.
    — John Yoo, National Review, 23 June 2024
  • Dominion waived its right to respond to Byrne’s petition.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The things fathers pass on to their sons extend far beyond the dominion of the Y chromosome.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2018
  • Boosting Gretel’s age puts her on the cusp of womanhood and gives her dominion over her younger brother.
    — Mark Kennedy, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The genre so long seen as the dominion of white males melted the identity divide into the energy of the crowd.
    — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • And perhaps, in the future, more of those memorials should be placed in space—the dominion these astronauts worked to reach.
    — National Geographic, 27 Jan. 2016
  • Or could an upstart that prioritizes love and mercy, say, over dominion lure away their customers?
    — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • Our system was built to harness the human urge for dominion and prestige by setting it against the urges of other women and men.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This was clearly outside the purview of the colonizer, who saw land as a resource held under his dominion.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2026
  • There would be oaths to the king and a kind of dominion status like that of Canada or New Zealand.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Tied to that discovery was the amazing theory that, after humankind, rats or ants would take over the dominion of the world.
    — Longreads, 22 May 2017
  • Fox News agreed to pay Dominion $787 million to settle the case.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Ba’ath Party, which once sought dominion over the entire Arab world, has now lost its final foothold.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The driver is dominion, not religion.
    — Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Upper air is the domain of F-35s and spy planes, while lower air is the dominion of helicopters and drones.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2021

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