How To Use preponderate In A Sentence
- Other characters in the ship I shall not describe; some were good, some bad, and some indifferent, but I am happy to remark the first-named preponderated. A Sailor of King George
- Even though their career aspirations were less focussed, the economic imperative of escaping from unemployment, rural communities and lowly prospects in the labour market preponderated.
- In Tosches's swanky new Tribeca pad, wood preponderates, wood of differing darkness and grains.
- Although it was a mixed class, girls preponderated.
- Both were charged as being concerned in a murder, of which the profits were stated at seven millions of francs; and for some days the scandal of this trial preponderated over the absorbing importance of the last elections held under Charles X. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
- In business, a single objective preponderates: making money.
- If water preponderated in it, cold ought to solidify it; if earth preponderated, then fire ought to do so. Meteorology
- New York, 1906, p. 89) places hymns in this measure among those "in which the verbal accent preponderates and the metrical accent only makes itself noticeable in certain places (particularly in the fourth line and when a line closes with a word accentuated on the penultimate)". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- Although it was a mixed class, girls preponderated.
- But on the whole, only two generations, two ‘classes,’ preponderate - the ripe and the ailing.