preponderance

How To Use preponderance In A Sentence

• a preponderance of evidence against the defendant
• And yet it is in France that the people of the communes, the burgherdom, reached the most complete and most powerful development, and ended by acquiring the most decided preponderance in the general social structure. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
• Their apparent preponderance may be due to the fact that they have been the most commonly used corticosteroids.
• We think it would be found that among women conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism preponderate, and that among men the preponderance is the other way about. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
• But there's, uh, still a preponderance of evidence against him.
• For the transcriber, the collection is a treasure trove of little discoveries -- the antiquated use of "farinaceous" instead of today's "pasta"; the remarkable preponderance of oyster dishes; the revelation that steaks cost twenty-five cents, not twenty-five dollars. The New York Public Library: All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
• A prodigious amount of backcombing and a preponderance of blondes created a fair few leonine manes but the effect was more catwalk queen than Lion King. Has the Little Black Dress finally fallen out of fashion?
• The advice isn't entirely remiss, but over the years, such glib counsel has resulted in a preponderance of breezy, aimless books long on episodic family humour but short on meaning.
• If during this process negative electrons hold the preponderance in the body, the fever is of a feeble, adynamic type. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
• The preponderance of French names in those early pioneering days is perhaps not surprising, as eccentricity has always been a hallmark of the French.