How to Use monopoly in a Sentence

monopoly

noun
  • The government passed laws intended to break up monopolies.
  • Google has held the monopoly on search for a very long time now.
    — Lis Anderson, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Plants have a monopoly on the sun.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
  • Anything less than a monopoly on the midrange feels off.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • Google has faced new threats to its near-monopoly on search queries before.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The core of the classic model of the state is a monopoly on the use of force.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Each prospered with its own unique monopoly.
    — Kelly Evans, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Each country has a monopoly of its own leagues of football or.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Open, not certain No one has a monopoly on the truth.
    — Daphne Koller, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But why break up a monopoly that charges consumers nothing at all?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2021
  • But the east coast doesn't have a monopoly on flooding at the moment.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The fans hope this is a turning point in breaking up a monopoly, the lawyers said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The state monopoly learned to be nimble and adapt to wartime footing.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • For decades the three major networks had a monopoly on news.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
  • This, to him, was an emerging monopoly.
    — Larry Holder, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Yes, it’s owned by Vail, one of the two mega-pass monopolies.
    — Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
  • No party has a monopoly on that grief—or on the urgency to end it.
    — John Boozman, Time, 23 June 2026
  • In other words, baseball can behave as a monopoly and not be called out for it.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The concern is that monopolies do not always have the depth to match their breadth.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Broadband providers have the same monopoly over their customers.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
  • For a time, the United States held a monopoly on these bombs.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • China has about a third of the world’s rare earth reserves but a near monopoly on supplies.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The best world for writers—and fans of their work—is the one without mega monopolies.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But the service doesn’t have a monopoly on any single major sport.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Vila do Conde The south doesn't hold a monopoly on great coastal towns.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2026
  • But one of Klobuchar’s top goals is to break up the monopoly at the largest tech companies.
    — Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Gunty said Black Bear is not a monopoly.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • In the corporate business world, it could be called a monopoly.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
  • So far, no single company seems likely to claim a monopoly in the state.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • Biden and Democrats need to make the cost of monopoly power real to people.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2021

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