How to Use domino in a Sentence

domino

noun
  • Dominoes is one of my favorite games.
  • Thomas was one of the first dominoes.
    — Kansas City Star, 1 Jan. 2026
  • That’s the first domino to fall.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
  • Of course, that could still change once the dominoes start to fall this week.
    — Chris Johnston, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Drury, who just came back this week, was the last of those dominoes to fall.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
  • Who knows how the dominoes are going to fall.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Stanley was the first domino to fall in this chain of events.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The dominoes had to fall in order.
    — Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2026
  • But for the sports world, that contest is just the first domino.
    — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • Meanwhile, the bad guys fall over like dominoes.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • In the park across the street, men played dominoes from morning to night.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • Sandy Hook seemed to him just the first domino in a long line of them.
    — Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The days keep falling like dominoes.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Noah builds menorahs out of dominoes.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Behind me sat a set of dominoes for anyone ready to play bones.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The question after that is, how do the rest of the dominoes fall?
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The only thing this could be now is the 6/1 domino.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • That was the initial domino that fell in their story.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Stop to play dominoes at the park and look over the rooster sculptures.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
  • And with that, the first dominoes began to fall in the new bowl cycle.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2019
  • The proposals have come like dominoes over the past two months.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 4 May 2018
  • Now investors are searching for the next dominoes to fall.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2026
  • If one account is exposed, the rest can fall like dominoes.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • That was only the first domino to fall amid a chaotic eight months at the club.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The 2/2 domino had to go in the Blue = 2 tile.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That cover-up cost the world precious time, and knocked over the first domino.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2020
  • That is the next domino to fall and women in that state will now have to go elsewhere.
    — ABC News, 8 May 2022
  • The domino games are legendary in the crew, chances to test our minds and our mouthpieces.
    — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Groups of people were all falling, like dominoes.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
  • It’s built of transparent dominoes, see-through like ice.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 15 Dec. 2025

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