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How To Use prevail In A Sentence

• His wonder and admiration were again excited by the neatness and perfect order that prevailed throughout the encampment, the six guns of a battery aligned with mathematical precision and accompanied by their caissons, prolonges, forage-wagons, and forges. The Downfall
• Hopefully, some of the more level-headed members of the council can prevail and make the Boom Town fiasco a bust.
• I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
• But the settlements prevailed, delusory shortcuts to a palpable proof that the Jewish people were truly blessed by God. The Chosen Peoples
• Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
• This involves the prevailing sense of disregard for life at the fetal stage on the part of legislators.
• Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
• In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail. 
• It's actually a Hindu religious symbol meaning `let good prevail. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 8: THE FIVE PATHS
• The prevailing wind is from the southwest.