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Example sentences for "dominates"

Lexicographically close words:
dominant; dominantly; dominants; dominate; dominated; dominating; domination; dominator; domineer; domineered
  1. The astral character of Ishtar dominates the latter half of the story in its present form.

  2. The church of Notre-Dame with its enormous buttressed tower surmounted by a crocketted spire, is 400 feet high and with its satellites, St. Saviour and the Belfry, dominates the entire city and surroundings.

  3. The lofty spire of Notre-Dame dominates all the surrounding country.

  4. Illustration: +The lofty spire of Notre-Dame Church dominates the surrounding country.

  5. He dominates a world of savage loves and mortal enmities like the world of Wuthering Heights.

  6. And "the despotic little man" dominates the book to an extent that Charlotte never contemplated either.

  7. It was devoid of that perception of the marvellous and awful significance of Natural phenomena which dominates the literature of the Romantic Revival.

  8. The tramp of the feet resembles the patter of raindrops upon the roof, a sporific, will-subduing sound which dominates consciousness.

  9. The new child, a little monster, brings an atmosphere of horror into the home and dominates the whole household.

  10. In real existence, on the contrary, it is unity that dominates with identity; diversity is born of the development of the power of unity.

  11. Matter dominates any principle that appears within it, alters it, and corrupts it by imparting thereto its own nature, which is contrary to the Good.

  12. Necessity drives the sense-world to evil, and to what is irrational, because necessity itself is irrational; but Intelligence dominates necessity.

  13. Nature dominates in plants, but not in man, iii.

  14. Students of strategy and military history will agree that Palestine, although some distance from the Suez Canal region, dominates that main artery of our trade and commerce.

  15. Beisan (the ancient Bethshan), which guards the eastern end and dominates the passage over the Jordan, was generally in the hands of the stranger.

  16. The rain is raging and the sound of its streaming dominates everything--a horror of desolation.

  17. The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

  18. The method of the advanced student dominates college teaching; the approach of the college is transferred into the high school, and so down the line, with such omissions as may make the subject easier.

  19. Among albinos every higher grade of pigmentation dominates all the lower grades in inheritance, and so apparently it is with mental development; the higher grades dominate the lower.

  20. This at once indicates to us the point of view; it is one which dominates all Judaistic history: the history is that of the temple rather than of the kingdom.

  21. In the course of years they diverged widely, but as yet the school collectively dominates over the artist individually.

  22. He pleads that certain Biblical drawings may have for her more worth because the religious meaning dominates over the art skill.

  23. And he has something more--the spiritual fact which dominates his being and transfigures and transforms him.

  24. Harvard dominates Boston, Columbia is but a peg in the educational system of New York.

  25. The traction company seems to have assimilated much of the breadth of spirit that dominates the Twin Cities of the Northwest.

  26. It is the Monument that dominates Mount Vernon square, that adds variety to the vistas up and down through Charles street.

  27. This task or problem dominates the situation.

  28. Such selection gives the principle that dominates all abstractions.

  29. And thus his image dominates all time, Uplifted like the everlasting dome Which rises in a miracle sublime Above eternal Rome.

  30. Achilles came from Homer's Jove-like brain, Pavilioned 'mid his ships where Thetis trod; But he whose image dominates this plain Came from the hand of God!

  31. Memories in which, in spite of everything, joy dominates suffering; a past which renews my hope that all is not over with me, and that it is not true that an accidental fall means irreparable ruin.

  32. Is it possible that he is so lacking in those thousand little intimate and familiar things whereby a man reveals his tastes, his passions, his thoughts, a little of that which dominates his life?

  33. The true orator or speaker, however, while having a direct purpose, never directly commands or dominates his audience.

  34. In the poem this love dominates everything,--the rhythm, the color of the voice.

  35. You can show a subjective action of the mind by pivoting naturally away from the person to whom you speak, but at the moment an idea comes to you clearly and definitely, it dominates you, and you turn towards him.

  36. In the oration, the speaker directly dominates the audience; in dramatic representation, the artist does not even look at his audience.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dominates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.