How to Use superiority in a Sentence

superiority

noun
  • His success has given him a false sense of superiority.
  • Lopez and the co-sponsors want to cloak themselves in moral superiority and call it a day.
    — Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Lorraine had the moral superiority of a girl who had never been in love.
    — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • So go ahead and make your case for Nazism, a white nation and racial superiority.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Parker’s show of moral superiority wasn’t the first time Brown had been made to feel small by a man.
    — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 4 Oct. 2019
  • There's this moral superiority that creeps up in him and then a bowl is put in front of him and that levels the playing field.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • America has gone to war many times with the hubris of superiority.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • And what was hard-wired into the psyche of white people was a sense of superiority.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • One of the great unifiers is our sense of superiority… to someone.
    — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2022
  • For just as long, many cyclists have tightly held on to a sense of moral superiority about their machines.
    — Zoë Beery, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022
  • That was in the days when the Model T had yet to prove its superiority over the horse.
    — Ted Trueblood, Field & Stream, 14 Nov. 2020
  • For all the talk of City’s superiority leading up to the game, it was won by the finest of margins.
    — James Robson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • The beauty of this is that the superiority of her work is what maintains her role as a cultural icon.
    — Claudia Rankine, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Sep. 2021
  • This fixation on male superiority was a sign of the times not just in academia but in society at large.
    — Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Every bucket brought one side of the gym to its feet and the bands dueled for superiority throughout the night.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Here’s hoping the teams can settle their superiority on the field in what would be a golden state series.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Still, this is not an advert for the superiority of the English.
    — CBS News, 13 May 2018
  • Over the years, Lynn’s flawed work has been used by far-right and racist groups as evidence to back up claims of white superiority.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Russia has much more aircraft than Ukraine but has yet to take air superiority over the country.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Those who suffer shame as children often cover it up with a false superiority.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • There are those who once thought that the superiority of machines would cause a crisis for chess—and for humanity.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • This feeling is called schadenfreude, and it is often rooted in a sense of superiority over the subject of our ridicule.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • But that song is about the idea that the North assumes some kind of moral superiority in the matter of race relations.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Early birds have long basked in the glory of health superiority, sometimes even tinged with a hit of moral righteousness.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The white prison guards and physicians deserved jail time for their crimes and for compromising the myth of white superiority.
    — Longreads, 25 May 2018
  • Not to mention the moral superiority gap it’s widened in conversations between the thin and the not thin enough.
    — Allison Lax, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This weekly pop-up is clearly enchanted, but a lot of that owes to the simple superiority of eating tacos on the street.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
  • Not the Nets’ stunning free-agent superiority over the Knicks.
    — Marc Stein, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The superiority of men in the game is so well established that the best female players have freely acknowledged it.
    — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • When science said dinosaurs were pea-brained and cold-blooded, humans took their demise as proof of the superiority of warm, clever mammals.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026

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