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hold sway

VERB
  1. be master; reign or rule

How To Use hold sway In A Sentence

  • South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway.
  • No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway. Times, Sunday Times
  • For reasons of its own, evolution allowed mammalian energy to hold sway, and the recently developed human midbrain or mesencephalon, which had folded over the old diencephalon, could be accurately labeled a mammal brain. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
  • Rebel forces hold sway over much of the island.
  • This discomfort increases sharply in situations where collective hysteria is liable to hold sway: clapping, stamping, cheering, whooping, dancing, that sort of caper.
  • No longer can the lowest common denominator or the common good be allowed to hold sway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rebel forces hold sway over much of the island.
  • So will the questions of whether the papacy is to pass from Europe (now seen as a pagan place that needs to be converted all over again) and whether the Italian cardinals or the German ones will hold sway in the conclave. In Search of a Pope
  • South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway.
  • Fundamentalist beliefs hold sway over whole districts, ensuring the popularity of religious leaders.
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