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How To Use preponderating In A Sentence

• o 'Day Boys became known as Orangemen, whose defiant loyalty sometimes caused concern to Camden and Pitt; while the Defenders joined the better drilled ranks of United Ireland, which therefore became a preponderatingly Catholic body. William Pitt and the Great War
• He saw at once, that, sensitive as she was to every impression, this fear was a contagious one, a mere gregarian affinity, and that she needed the preponderating warmth and strength of a protecting presence, the influence of a fuller vitality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
• They must certify they have tried to recruit American operators at preponderating wages and that foreigners aren't replacing U. S. inhabitants.
• The relative amounts of spongioplasm and hyaloplasm also vary in different cells, the latter preponderating in the young cell and the former increasing at the expense of the hyaloplasm as the cell grows. I. Embryology. 1. The Animal Cell
• This explains the preponderating amount of research devoted to this subject by Protestant scholars as compared with the contributions of their Catholic rivals.