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Example sentences for "mainstream"

Lexicographically close words:
mainsheet; mainspring; mainsprings; mainstay; mainstays; maint; maintain; maintainable; maintainance; maintaine
  1. Upper mainstream and tributaries of Rio Grande, Pecos, Arkansas and North Platte Rivers; isolated populations in tributaries of the upper Missouri River.

  2. Mackenzie Basin south from Fort Good Hope; Saskatchewan Basin east to Lake Winnipeg; mainstream of Missouri River and Mississippi River south to Barfield, Arkansas; intergrading with H.

  3. VII Frank Nelsen meant the journey to be vagabond escape, an interlude of to hell with it relief from the grind, and from the increasingly uncertain mainstream of the things he knew best.

  4. Mitch and his star folk couldn't withdraw from the mainstream of competition--inherent in life--that was spreading again across the solar system.

  5. Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun `segment' than like mainstream v.

  6. There are now millions of frightened Americans who, following the advice of mainstream Authority, have eliminated red meat from their diets and greatly reduced what they (mistakenly) understand as high-cholesterol foods.

  7. Mainstream nutritionists have brainwashed the public into thinking that we should have a representative serving from each of the "four basic food groups" at each and every meal, plus a beverage and a desert.

  8. In this chapter, we have discussed the professions that make up the mainstream of professional practice in counseling and psychotherapy.

  9. Fortunately, this extreme is far less common than mainstream folklore paints it --- but almost all hackers will recognize something of themselves in the unflattering paragraphs above.

  10. Role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons used to be extremely popular among hackers but they lost a bit of their luster as they moved into the mainstream and became heavily commercialized.

  11. Interestingly, though the mainstream culture has tended to think of hackers as incorrigible junk-food junkies, many have at least mildly health-foodist attitudes and are fairly discriminating about what they eat.

  12. I finally shook hands on the partnership after he caved in and agreed I could do anything I wanted, so long as it looked mainstream enough to get picked up by Time-Warner or somebody else legit.

  13. I decided to go more mainstream and see what happened.

  14. For a professor he was outspoken, but viewed as mainstream by the extremist camps.

  15. If it weren't for the National Expos printing irresponsibly, the mainstream press would have kept it quiet until there was some con- firmation.

  16. Integration into the mainstream of American life, besides appearing to be impossible, seemed to demand the denial of selfhood for the black man.

  17. The racist attitudes of mainstream America, both North and South, made it almost impossible for a Negro to conceive of himself purely in individualistic terms.

  18. They were more than products of an Afro-American subculture; their work became part of the mainstream of American literature.

  19. It was the black middle class, which had adopted the life style of the mainstream of white society, that earned his scorn.

  20. Some of them wanted to join the white society, accept its Euro-American cultural values, forget their past, and assimilate into the mainstream of American life.

  21. The talented tenth," which was to lead the Afro-American community into the mainstream of American life, had not been successful.

  22. It was only with the emergence of the "New Negro" and the Negro Renaissance that this folk culture entered the mainstream of the art world.

  23. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life.

  24. Our focus has been two-fold: to provide American women with a full range of opportunities and to make them a part of the mainstream of every aspect of our national life and leadership.

  25. And where, for the first time, the American mainstream includes all of our disabled citizens.

  26. It is essential to the goal of bringing America's women fully into the mainstream of American life that the ERA be ratified.

  27. Most of the 13 are fishes that probably occur throughout the lower mainstream of the Kansas River and might enter the lower Wakarusa occasionally.

  28. The stoneroller was usually abundant at upstream stations and was found in the mainstream of the Wakarusa River.

  29. The effect of the drought on stream-flow at the mainstream gaging station 2.

  30. Hybopsis gelida (Girard) and Hybopsis gracilis (Richardson) occur in the Kansas River and may be expected in the lowermost portion of the mainstream of the Wakarusa.

  31. Turbidity is consistently more than 100 ppm in the lower portions of the mainstream and major tributaries, but is usually lower in the upper portions of tributaries.

  32. The rate of redispersal by various species probably depended upon their innate mobility, and upon their tolerance of the muddy mainstream of the Wakarusa.

  33. I fully realized the impermanence of this enjoyment; upon my recovery, I would once again be hurled amid the mob and mainstream of society.

  34. A long subway tunnel connected it to the mainstream of clinic activity, yet Curie itself was singularly remote from all else, as if, being the nucleus of cancer treatment and related disorders, it was purposely kept at a safe distance.

  35. I was living under the wing of my parents as I watched friends initiate themselves into the mainstream of societal expectations; theirs were blooming lives, while I seemed stranded in a murky, stagnant pool, simply taking up space.

  36. Longnose gar were abundant in the mainstream of the Big Blue River but usually evaded capture.

  37. The bluntnose minnow preferred the clearer creeks, with gravel or gravel-silt bottoms, but occurred rarely in the mainstream of the Big Blue River.

  38. Confusingly, this is often pronounced more like the noun `segment' than like mainstream /v.

  39. This site possessed the most limpid water of any station on the mainstream of Big Caney.

  40. In the mainstream of Grouse Creek the highest percentage taken was 19.

  41. The mountain minnow was never taken far from the mainstream of Big Caney, Middle Caney, or Elk River.

  42. These species probably used the mainstream as a refugium during drought; with the resumption of flow, conditions became unsuitable for these populations in the mainstream.

  43. Etheostoma flabellare# Rafinesque Fan-tailed Darter The fan-tailed darter is represented in my collections by one specimen, obtained in the mainstream of the Neosho River at the lower station in 1957.

  44. This species occurs most frequently in small streams, and individuals living in the mainstream of the Neosho probably are "strays" from nearby tributaries.

  45. The few specimens obtained in 1957 possibly represent a relict population that remained in the mainstream after flow in tributaries was restored by increased rainfall.

  46. My specimen possibly strayed from a nearby tributary; or, it was a relict from a population living in the mainstream during drought.

  47. With continued flow, this species possibly will decrease in abundance in the lower mainstream of the Neosho River.

  48. Notropis buchanani# Meek Ghost Shiner Field records of the State Biological Survey indicate that the ghost shiner was common in the mainstream of the lower Neosho River during drought.

  49. This species is common in smaller streams tributary to the lower portions of the two rivers, and probably occurs in the mainstream only as "overflow" from tributaries.

  50. My specimen may represent a small population that retreated to the mainstream of the Neosho during drought.

  51. Collections at all stations show that the species has a definite preference for eddies--relatively quiet water, but adjacent to the strong current of the mainstream rather than in backwater remote from the channel.

  52. Subsequently, by means of the shocker (26 June-8 July), two spent and two ripe males were captured in quiet water of the mainstream that closely resembled areas in which the gill nets were set.

  53. Cross (personal communication) obtained several blue suckers in collections made in the mainstream of the Neosho River in 1952; both young and adults occupied swift, deep riffles.

  54. The online blogosphere provides a vital counterpoint to mainstream media, but it exists in a symbiotic--some would say parasitic--relationship with that media and the network of professional news gatherers for which it pays.

  55. DuBois, Walter White, and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP and Lester Granger of the National Urban League were in the mainstream of the American reform movement, which stressed an orderly petitioning of government for a redress of grievances.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mainstream" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bearing; course; current; direction; drift; line; mainstream; motion; movement; run; stream; swing; tenor; tone; trend