How to Use dominant in a Sentence

dominant

1 of 2 adjective
  • It is the dominant culture in the region.
  • The company is now dominant in its market.
  • Have a few dominant arms to ride at the back end of the bullpen.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • This is not an easy sport to flip the switch and be dominant in.
    Scott Kushner, NOLA.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The better ones tend to see the more dominant creative force in the duo lead the way.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The defense was dominant and the offense didn’t turn the ball over.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Hold the peach in your non-dominant hand with the stem side toward the ceiling.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Louisville has all of the tools to be a dominant defensive team.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The defense has been dominant and the offense has run wild.
    Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • What is the role of dominant and subordinate dogs in the process?
    Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Just come out here and be one of the dominant defensive tackles in the league.
    Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 14 June 2017
  • The most dominant men’s tennis player over the first half of this decade.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • As the months passed, what was once a feature of their lives became the dominant force.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The talent is growing, and the teams at the top are downright dominant.
    Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The Jazz were still dominant with him on the floor, but just less so than last year.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The Cougars have also been dominant in most of those wins.
    Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Well, there are a couple of things that are quite dominant.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Sometimes there is trading in the middle of the game if one team is too dominant.
    Lori Riley, courant.com, 19 June 2021
  • Moisten your dominant hand with water and pick up the sushi rice.
    Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2018
  • Allen has been dominant down the stretch, leading the Bills to wins in their last five games.
    Andy Nesbitt, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Sale was dominant in his first year and a half in Boston.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • His wrestling program has been dominant for a long time.
    Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • There won’t be a more dominant player in her sport for quite some time.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Fractures appear in dominant groups, and the fabric can go to pieces.
    Amro Ali, Time, 3 July 2018
  • Other changes have made white males less dominant at top schools.
    Gerald Bradshaw, Post-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most dominant of them all?
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Facebook is so dominant in some parts of the world that its language skills could even be a matter of life and death.
    Tom Simonite, WIRED, 3 May 2018
  • Her serve is too dominant and her strokes are too powerful to keep her down for long.
    Chris Chase, For The Win, 31 May 2018
  • Drew Timme has been dominant in the post in this tournament.
    Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Tendons and nerves in her dominant left hand were damaged.
    Aimee Lewis, CNN, 26 May 2018
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dominant

2 of 2 noun
  • The running game still hasn’t found a dominant back since Lynch left.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But the system has changed to become point-guard dominant.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Oct. 2021
  • This was once viewed as the dominant of the league's two divisions, with No.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Those who are vata dominant should minimize cold and raw foods and too much caffeine.
    Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The process of becoming quad-dominant usually starts with tight hips.
    Alexa Tucker, SELF, 8 July 2017
  • As the first half progressed, and with England dominant, the opportunity was there to put the game away.
    Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
  • Others, like Yul and Kim, were revered one-timers who hoped to show their first dominant runs were not a fluke.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 May 2020
  • The Jags are run-dominant and are toast if rookie Leonard Fournette gets hurt.
    George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Knowing that, the non-dominant is always paying attention to those in power and what is going on around them.
    Kellee Terrell, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2019
  • High pressure remaining dominant also means clouds should be few and far between.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 16 June 2018
  • The vaccine also has been found to have good efficacy against the variant dominant in South Africa.
    Mogomotsi Magome and Andrew Meldrum, Star Tribune, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The complaint also notes Renard Spivey appears to be right-hand dominant and he was shot through his left thigh area.
    Christina Maxouris and Sheena Jones, CNN, 31 July 2019
  • No country artist was as dominant of an artistic and commercial force for a longer period of time than George Jones.
    Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 10 July 2017
  • Dominant in the air against most opponents and also a lethal poacher, Icardi will be supplied with crosses from both wings.
    SI.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Christian Brothers: The Oregon commit is as dominant of a tight end as this area has seen.
    Joe Davidson, sacbee, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Researchers have also found that the variant dominant in the U.K. is also more deadly than the original virus.
    Karel Janicek, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • But in recent years the rise of the internet and the accession of central and eastern European states have made English dominant.
    The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • New chapters continue to be written at the storied track year after year -- lately with one dominant, main character.
    Julius Long and Jill Martin, CNN, 12 July 2019
  • Fans had a love/hate relationship with Jackson’s ball-dominant, over-dribbling game.
    Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The Indians' dominant Andrew Miller is redefining the role of a set-up man, often serving as a set-up to the set-up man.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2017
  • In fact, most residents of those neighborhoods are Spanish-language dominant.
    Megan Cassidy, azcentral, 8 May 2017
  • Irving and Durant are both ball-dominant, scoring-focused players.
    New York Times, 12 July 2019
  • Also, right-handed people are usually left-leg dominant.
    Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Will Sabonis shed his reluctance to shoot when facing up, spread better than his predecessor Thad Young and not be so left-hand dominant?
    J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2019
  • Though once dominant in the classroom, Apple has slipped behind Google and Microsoft in recent years, which sell lower cost tablets and laptops that better fit tight school budgets.
    Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Its once-dominant Hepatitis C franchise, which turned Gilead into one of the most important drug companies in the world earlier this decade, is now in decline.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
  • If Duarte pans out, he's considered a more versatile version of McDermott who is right-hand dominant and primarily used on one side of the floor because of it.
    J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2021
  • Early in January, the previous version of this team went through growing pains trying to integrate ball-dominant Isaiah Thomas.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The elite pitchers of the last 20 seasons who required Tommy John surgery amid dominant runs came back to perform at solid to exceptional levels.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Experts think the AstraZeneca vaccine could still offer better protection against severe disease and death caused by the variant dominant in South Africa, but that has not yet been tested.
    Mogomotsi Magome, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021

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