How to Use hegemony in a Sentence

hegemony

noun

• They discussed the national government's hegemony over their tribal community.
• European intellectuals have long debated the consequences of the hegemony of American popular culture around the world.
• Both the anthem and the flag are symbols of white hegemony.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 25 Sep. 2017
• Acts of hegemony and bullying are causing colossal harm to the world.
  — Edith M. Lederer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2023
• All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar.
  — Michelle Jamrisko, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Even worse are the practices of hegemony and bullying, which run counter to the tide of history.
  — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
• In other words, Beijing is neither on the cusp of peaking nor on a road to hegemony.
  — Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• The next few years will determine if its hegemony fades or flourishes anew.
  — Andrew A. Michta, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
• Beijing has long hoped that the Chinese yuan could threaten the dollar hegemony.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
• Sierra Leone, where the hegemony of bondo is still entrenched, has nothing of the sort.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• There have been acts amassing millions of streams who were willing to ignore reggaeton’s hegemony for the space of a song or two.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2021
• China could then emerge as a more viable and serious rival for hegemony.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2021
• To a certain extent, demography dictates the hegemony of the old in Japan.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Fear of Iranian hegemony in the Middle East is a major cause of this trend.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Fears of American hegemony have surrounded the award since the decision was made.
  — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• Russia lacks the hard and soft power to extend its hegemony much beyond the post-Soviet space.
  — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 2 Feb. 2017
• They are very fixated on the fact that progressives and leftists control all the cultural hegemony.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
• That was perhaps the last time a President would be so blithe about U.S. hegemony.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2020
• What is eroding this more-than-century-old hegemony of scale?
  — Hans-Paul Buerkner, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2021
• Starting wars is not an easy option when both the cold war and the period that followed it of unchallenged American hegemony are in the past.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2021
• Now Iran is setting up military bases to cement its dream of a land bridge to Lebanon as a path to regional hegemony.
  — Daniel Schwammenthal, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
• The first blow to the hegemony of Galen came from Vesalius, a Flemish physician of vast energy.
  — John J. Ross, WSJ, 24 July 2022
• In the end, breaking Juve’s nine-year hegemony on the Italian game came at a heavy price for Inter.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• Its hegemony may have disappeared, but its potency has not.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• There is no reason to fear that Russia is going to be a regional hegemony in Europe.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
• For Carlson, the vaccine is a potent metaphor for the creeping hegemony of Democratic elites.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• Ousting Google from its search engine hegemony would certainly be a tall order.
  — Bytristan Bove, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
• The protests were met with heavy police repression and followed by an election with many signs of fraud that continued Putin’s hegemony.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
• By contrast, China’s bid for global hegemony is just starting to crest.
  — Arthur Herman, National Review, 18 July 2021
• Part of what this polarization is is the emergence of competing narratives, which are fighting each other for what will be the new hegemony.
  — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024