How to Use superiority in a Sentence

superiority

noun
  • His success has given him a false sense of superiority.
  • 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
  • Those two will duel for superiority in the AFC North in the next few years.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Lopez and the co-sponsors want to cloak themselves in moral superiority and call it a day.
    Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • In short, the F-14 is an air-superiority fighter, designed to clear the skies of anything that might threaten the fleet.
    Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
  • So go ahead and make your case for Nazism, a white nation and racial superiority.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Some users marveled at the superiority of Sora’s videos, noting the pace of AI progress in less than one year.
    Will Henshall, TIME, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Still, this is not an advert for the superiority of the English.
    CBS News, 13 May 2018
  • Lorraine had the moral superiority of a girl who had never been in love.
    Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But here’s Moore narrating an ad for the police that promises new recruits a false sense of superiority and the chance to fire guns all the time.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • And what was hard-wired into the psyche of white people was a sense of superiority.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • During the cold war, the Soviet Union pushed its space program as a way of proving its superiority over the U.S. to countries around the world.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That didn't go down well with the Swifties, who heard in Charli's words a statement of superiority over Taylor.
    Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 7 Aug. 2019
  • One of the great unifiers is our sense of superiority… to someone.
    Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Not the Nets’ stunning free-agent superiority over the Knicks.
    Marc Stein, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
  • This fixation on male superiority was a sign of the times not just in academia but in society at large.
    Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Just as the Cavaliers showed in the first round, the rest of the East playoff field has shown a significant superiority to what the Heat fielded in the playoffs.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2025
  • The bloc established the NDB as part of its efforts to pry economic superiority away from the West.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The Cavs aren’t playing too bad under first-year coach John Beilein, but Sixers should flex superiority out the gate.
    Duane Rankin, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • And as is often the case in the Middle East, the bone of contention is military superiority.
    Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • His superiority was self-evident, like the rays of the sun.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Nadal dropped serve for 5-5 but restored his break superiority by converting on a fourth chance and saved three break points to hold for 7-5.
    Ravi Ubha, CNN, 10 July 2019
  • The prevailing wisdom going into tonight was that Boston had figured itself out, and that the Celtics were about to put their superiority on display the rest of the way.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 13 May 2025

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