How to Use predominate in a Sentence

predominate

1 of 2 adjective
  • Beige hues predominate, with pops of color.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Shifting eyes and passing hands predominate over the streets.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Housing costs played a predominate role in the number of years $1 million can last.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Beige hues predominate, with pops of color in pillows and objets d’art.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Warm tones in the primary bedroom of this coastal home are a counterpoint to the cool whites that predominate.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 20 May 2025
  • The fast-spreading Delta variant was the predominate strain during the trial.
    — Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • But that hubris was hardly unique to her, given how secular modes of prophecy have come to predominate in everyday life.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Growth investing has been the predominate strategy in the last five years (see Chart of the Day).
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Sandy and gravelly soils predominate on the valley floors, providing excellent drainage for the vines.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Looking for an explanation for why warblers are more likely to be found in parks where trees are located than on streets where buildings predominate?
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The result is for vanilla lovers, which is the predominate flavor, with delicate pepper and ginger spices and a toffee finish.
    — Gina Pace, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The analysis used a 70 percent threshold for racial groups to determine the predominate racial group in each census tract.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • In their youthful expressions, innocence and hope predominate.
    — Roger Cohen Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • For now, however, gendered pronouns remain entrenched, and the predominate view appears to be that when pronouns are spelled out by all, everyone benefits.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 24 June 2019
  • The predominate wind flow from the storm was east to west, creating damaging winds but not pushing the water up the Calcasieu River, Truchelut said.
    — Ashley White, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Unlike the seasonal influenza viruses, bird flu doesn't attack the cell receptors that predominate in a person's upper airways.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
  • For example, citrus and fruit are big in the summer, spices like clove and cinnamon predominate in the fall, and cranberry and mace take center stage in the winter, Warrener says.
    — Caroline Tien, SELF, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Bitcoin ring, 2018 Coins and banknotes have been the predominate forms of circulating money for centuries.
    — Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
  • Red, white and jack pines are the predominate evergreens in this forest in Marinette and Oconto counties in northeastern Wisconsin.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Even though conventional property sales through mortgages predominate, such contracts for deed long were common in selling farmland, small businesses in rural areas and houses.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025
  • Women Inspiring Women Unlike many parts of the world where men predominate among art collectors, India has always had women who lead the way.
    — Shreejaya Nair, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Maternal mortality remains worst where women of African descent predominate.
    — Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • However, much of the work that AI can take on is in sectors like administrative support, retail, and customer service, all areas where women predominate in the workforce.
    — Amanda Kavanagh | This Column Was Created By Jobbio, The Hill, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Musically, strings predominate, played with simplicity and sensitivity, serving as a perfect canvas to highlight his voice.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2024
  • There are no impossible transformations or talking rabbits; human characters predominate as actors in the narrative.
    — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • The latter includes six majority Black districts, two majority Hispanic and Latinx and one that does not have any one predominate minority group.
    — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Some plants that go all gold in fall simply don’t have the biochemical apparatus to produce the orange, red and purple pigments that predominate in calendar and screen saver photos of New England’s autumn landscape.
    — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, childcare responsibilities were left to families or private childcare businesses, which predominate today.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
  • In the mid-twentieth century, however, liberalism began to predominate to such an extent that republicanism, and its concern with the civic consequences of economic choices, largely faded from view.
    — Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Despite the diverse images used for God in Scripture and Christian tradition, male language and images predominate in contemporary Christian worship.
    — Annie Selak, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023

predominate

2 of 2 verb
  • Older people predominate in that neighborhood.
  • Dark wood predominates with a sprinkling of red vinyl on the chairs and stools.
    — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • For those that live far from human dwellings, twigs and leaves predominate.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Blues, beiges and browns predominate in the first few pages, as a child with a backpack joins the throng on a busy city street.
    — WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The menu includes hot and cold mezza; kebabs and seafood predominate the mains.
    — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • Most are dressed in vaguely medieval garb, with red and green capes predominating.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Then, the aerobic system gets fully ramped up and predominates for the rest of the race.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But the winning side of the Babe’s life predominates in these pages and in history.
    — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The feeling that came to predominate was not hopefulness but whiplash, in sports as in everything else.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Black-and-white flooring predominates in the bathrooms in the standard rooms, while marble is used in the ten corner suites.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
  • That earthy lemongrass flavor predominates, and the cheese somewhat mellows the spice.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Sunshine predominates in much of the East, while the West sees rainy conditions.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But, in an age of nativism and protectionism, other ways of seeing the world now predominate.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
  • But the commercial farms that predominate in the United States tend to plant large plots of a single crop.
    — Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2013
  • At private companies in the early stages of growth, stock options predominate.
    — Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Varieties with predominating silver or frosty white can lighten a dark area, and so can those with light shades of the other colors.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 11 Apr. 2018
  • On the nose, red and dark fruits predominate, along with floral aromas of violet and hints of balsamic vinegar.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Flavors of Bing cherry, mushroom and forest floor predominate over a long, silky finish.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • The 5-foot-9 guard is the only junior on a team predominated by sophomores and freshmen.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Imagery of horses and humanoid figures predominates, many of them fusing and conjoined.
    — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2026
  • Al-Qurayshi is from the part of Iraq where ethnic Turkmen, rather than Arabs, predominate.
    — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Such work usually starts with checking which flu strains are circulating around the world and predicting which of them will likely predominate in the year ahead.
    — Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • His captors spoke Mandarin, not the Cantonese that predominates in Hong Kong.
    — Kelvin Chan, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2017
  • No single species predominates.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That is the predominating feeling.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Public-sector jobs in the GCC pay about three times more than private-sector ones, where foreigners predominate (see chart).
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • This was an era in which wasting time, intentional fouling, theatrics and defensive schemes predominated.
    — Cesar R. Torres, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
  • His area, Central, has more Western-company branch offices and has less of a crush than Wanchai, where local firms predominate.
    — Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Beyond the gate, a winding dirt track runs up a hill to another iron gate, which leads you, after a time, to a handsome farmhouse in brick and the yellowish stone that predominates in this region of Italy.
    — Joshua Levine, WSJ, 21 May 2019
  • Many grapes are grown in the region, but tending to predominate are viognier, for lovers of that white wine that smells like bottled flowers, and tempranillo, the almost-black grape of Spain's Rioja reds.
    — Brian J. Cantwell, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017

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