Without in any degree monopolising the conversation, he became the centre of interest.
Then I can do no other than gratefully accept," said Ricordo; "but I am afraid I am monopolisingyour company, Signor Castlemaine.
I never could get an explanation of this, but presume it is so ordained by law, to prevent any one family from monopolising a well.
So far as I am concerned, since they have brought the same reproach of monopolising against me, and an occasion offers to say a word on this subject, I will say it without circumlocution.
Other illustrators found fault with Tony for monopolising every book as they blamed me for monopolising every newspaper.
The peculative patriots who are now monopolising Westminster have from time to time made descents on the district, to sow the good seed, as it were, by the wayside.
That man, sitting facing Mr. Coombe, fingering the stem of his wineglass with his delicate white fingers, monopolising the conversation with his confounded drawling aristocratic voice and his infernal air of superiority, who was he?
How nimbly the big car twisted in and out the traffic, how it dodged cumbersome, road monopolising trams, how it slipped round the unwieldy omnibuses!
Instead, therefore, ofmonopolising this branch of commerce, the government saddled it with such an exorbitant duty, that the provinces definitively gained little by the change.
I have seen English adventurers with that innate power which makes every individual, whether Briton or American, a real representative of his country, monopolising the trade, and influencing the destinies of California.
He took her in to dinner; and every now and then, when Montague stole a glance at her, he saw that Ryder was monopolising her attention.
You can't punish them for anything they do, whether it is monopolising a necessity of life and starving thousands of people to death, or whether it is an attack upon a defenceless woman.
So it bores you to see Mr. Plank monopolising an engaged girl who belongs to Howard Quarrier!
But neither colour has succeeded in monopolising all the virtues and graces in its specific evolution from the common ancestral ape, and a superficial acquaintance with the work of Dr.
What damaged the smaller tenants, and produced the popular revolts against enclosure, was not merely enclosing, but enclosing accompanied either by eviction and conversion to pasture, or by the monopolising of common rights.
The monopolising of commons by manorial authorities who wished to form a large sheep-run can be traced through several stages, of which actual enclosure is only one, and the climax rather than the beginning.
Congestion of the right lung," said the doctor, seeing that he was strong enough to bear the information, and feeling the need of rousing him from hismonopolising self-absorption.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monopolising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
