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Example sentences for "predominating"

Lexicographically close words:
predominantly; predominate; predominated; predominately; predominates; predreadnought; predynastic; pree; preehaps; preeminence
  1. Nevertheless, not a few perish in the commencement of scarlet fever with predominating cerebral symptoms, as delirium or eclampsia, followed by coma, under the best possible treatment.

  2. The predominating feature is the great uplift of the opposite wall, and the aggressiveness of its salient promontory.

  3. Generally speaking, the compounding of colours is easier in oil than in water; but in both vehicles trouble will be saved by beginning with the predominating colour, and adding the other or others to it.

  4. Blue is, therefore, in every instance the archeus or predominating colour of olive; its perfect or middle hue comprehending sixteen of blue to five of red and three of yellow.

  5. In all harmonious combinations of colours, whether of mixture or neighbourhood, blue is the natural, prime, or predominating power.

  6. Sixteen years later, Browning was to define in memorable words what he held to be the "noblest and predominating characteristic of Shelley"--viz.

  7. So each form of reaction to the critical ages is individualized according to the predominating glandular influence in the constitution of the woman.

  8. Only, as in other relationships, the predominating endocrine stamps its signature more visibly upon the documents of decadence than the others.

  9. In the heredity of Nietzsche, the father appears therefore to supply a pituitary predominating element, the mother an adrenal-pituitary predominating element.

  10. Energy and sensitivity in an individual should direct attention to the thyroid element predominating in his composition.

  11. All this emphasizes the relative bisexuality of every normal, no matter how pronounced, when superficially viewed, his or her form of predominating sex may be.

  12. The effects of loss of the sex glands upon the configuration of the body and the predominating constitution in animals and eunuchs have always attracted attention.

  13. The potency is in the inferior blood, simply because it is the predominating one.

  14. The four large beds opposite the pool-beds are planted in predominating tones of yellow, blue, pink, and dark red respectively, with white freely intermixed.

  15. Briefly, the planting over the large space is all balanced in predominating colors of rose, lavender, white, and palest yellow.

  16. Women frequently succumb altogether to this predominating influence of present impressions, and there are few men so overweighted with reason as to escape suffering from a similar cause.

  17. In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating quality of the mind.

  18. And since, in itself, intellect is beyond the range of pain, and man feels happy just in so far as his intellect is the predominating part of him.

  19. And still more, perhaps, to trace the original efficiency, or effeminacy of the civil type, in the blood of predominating races, who have been characterized by it.

  20. And in this portion of the continent the English and French have been the predominating powers.

  21. Hard water is very unfit for every purpose of vegetation, and soft will vary its effects according to the predominating quality of its impregnations.

  22. According to their predominating colors they are known as red, gray, white, etc.

  23. The ground color should consist of the leading or predominating color, and the rest of the spots are put in by sprinkling or striking the brush against a stick.

  24. Another may perceive that the gratification would impair his good name, or the estimation in which he is anxious to stand in the eyes of other men;--this is the predominating love of approbation, or regard to character.

  25. The determination or decision may arise out of a certain state of arrangement of the moving powers themselves, in consequence of which some one of them has acquired a predominating influence in the moral system.

  26. The Chrysanthemo-Paeonian is so called from the prevalence of chrysanthemums and paeonies on the ground, and the Green and Rose from the predominating colors.

  27. The predominating colors are white and blue for grounds and red for designs.

  28. Apart from this, horrible as it may seem, her predominating feeling toward her dead husband was that of intense bitterness and resentment.

  29. Thanks to the predominating spekboem and other evergreen bushes, the winter dress of Nature suffered but little diminution in verdure; and in grand contrast many a stately summit soared proudly aloft, capped with a white powdering of snow.

  30. Countries where the population is more regularly distributed have an easier task than Germany, with its predominating urban population.

  31. As will now be seen, the Slavs, including both Bulgars and Serbs, form the predominating element in the Balkans.

  32. Capital as trading or money capital appears in that abstraction, where capital does not constitute as yet the predominating element of society.

  33. That exchange and consumption can not be the predominating elements is self evident.

  34. Applied to the predominating color in a composition.

  35. Reds and bright yellow arouse the nerve sense more quickly than blue or tones of color predominating in blue.

  36. We do not wish it understood that these colors are to be applied flat, but simply in the predominating expression.

  37. The crystals are rhombohedral, and the predominating form is often a rhombohedron (r) with interfacial angles of 85 deg.

  38. Among the big flocks of small sandpipers that we saw all winter frequenting the extensive mud flats in the vicinity of Tampa Bay, Florida, I am satisfied that this species was well represented, if not the predominating species.

  39. Their social position is more elevated in every respect than that of the persons of their sex in the regions where Buddhism is not the predominating creed.

  40. With all his Divine self-realisation there was always, moreover, that sense of humility that is always a predominating characteristic of the really great.

  41. The predominating motive has been the saving of the soul.

  42. It was furnished as became the house of a rich merchant and a sensible man, the comfort predominating over the costliness.

  43. It took some little time, but at last Betty and Allen, who were working together, announced that they found A to be the next most predominating letter after E.

  44. And that will be E, for E is the predominating letter in any communication.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predominating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.