Sentences with dominant
dom·i·nant
D d - ...a change which would maintain his party's dominant position in Scotland.
- Because it is carried by a dominant gene, an affected individual can expect about half of his or her children to inherit the illness.
- What has made the dominant sex feel like victims?
- Swine flu has become the dominant flu in Victoria.
- The dominant topic of the day
- dominant in the chain of command.
- This theme is worked out in an extended crescendo, culminating in a grand forte for one bar only on the dominant chord.
- It is especially dominant where criticism and biography meet.
- Corn is the dominant crop of Iowa.
- The dominant chord.
- Dominant refers to that which dominates or controls, or has the greatest effect [dominant characteristics in genetics]; predominant refers to that which is at the moment uppermost in importance or influence [the predominant reason for his refusal]; paramount is applied to that which ranks first in importance, authority, etc. [of paramount interest to me]; preeminent implies prominence because of surpassing excellence [the preeminent writer of his time]; preponderant implies superiority in amount, weight, power, importance, etc. [the preponderant religion of a country]
- The dominant party controlled the government.
- The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.