How to Use prevail in a Sentence

prevail

verb

• The law still prevails in some states.
• Mutual respect prevails among students and teachers here.
• The house was built in the style that prevailed in the 1980s.
• The truth is, games will be played and the sport will prevail.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2023
• But that could change if the plaintiffs prevail in the case.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 26 Dec. 2022
• At the end of the sequence, the ego prevails and stands tall over the shadows.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• Cooler heads have prevailed and the duo went back to work.
  — Andreas Hale, Billboard, 8 June 2018
• It’s not always the best team, but the hottest, that tends to prevail in the end.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
• That seems to be the prevailing opinion around the country, by the way.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2017
• And in the end, truth always will kind of prevail itself.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• Khrushchev is not aware that the gates of hell shall not prevail against us. . . .
  — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022
• And the team with the best depth over those three games will probably prevail.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
• But the marchers had faith that God and Trump would prevail.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
• The sad truth of it all, though, is that in this instance, evil prevailed.
  — SI.com, 5 June 2018
• But, in all of those cases, at the end of the day, cooler heads prevailed.
  — Monica Eng, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Greater knowledge can raise the chances for humans to prevail.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 16 June 2020
• His rhetoric gave both sides hope of prevailing in the future.
  — Mark Sherman, Fox News, 4 June 2018
• But that hope depends on the idea that reason will prevail.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2018
• There’s no telling how all that will play out, or who will prevail.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• How did a team that hadn't been pushed all season prevail?
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2021
• Those filing the complaints would need at least four votes to prevail.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
• Still, the paps prevailed, and a blessed image was produced.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 18 June 2018
• But Panic! prevailed in the end, winning video of the year.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2019
• Who will prevail and who will crack under the pressure?
  — oregonlive, 18 Oct. 2022
• There have been glimpses the strategy could yet prevail.
  — Ksenia Galouchko, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2020
• Google could also prevail in the case and hold on to its entire ad business.
  — Patience Haggin, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
• None of this means Russia won't prevail in Kyiv in the end.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 4 Mar. 2022
• In a game that had six lead changes and five ties, Cincinnati prevailed.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Of course, none of this matters if the Cavs somehow prevail.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 8 June 2018
• Triller just prevailed on two of its cases against him for piracy.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2024