How to Use dominate in a Sentence

dominate

verb
Definition of dominatenext
Synonyms for dominatenext
  • His work dominated the art scene last year.
  • He dominated her life for many years.
  • Our team dominated play throughout the game.
  • Our team dominated throughout the game.
  • One company has dominated the market for years.
  • But over the years, the Apple Watch has dominated as the number one smartwatch in the world.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
  • There’s one that dominates and one that has to be subservient.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • At the same time, the baggy more-is-more look has been dominating for the past few years and seems like the trend that will never die.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Byron dominated both stages but gave up the stage wins to make late pit stops, and now is poised to reclaim the lead over the final 20 laps of the race.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Once here, brown rats rapidly took over black rats’ turf, dominating in just a few decades, per the study.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Games are one of the only things that people still have to — and want to — watch live in a world dominated by on-demand content.
    — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Female acts dominate this year and count for all of the nominees in the top three categories apart from Jon Batiste.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Florida cities dominate the top ten, with five cities from the Sunshine State making the cut.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • She’s been dominating bestseller lists for more than a year.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 23 June 2023
  • Edey will be neutralized, and the quicker Cougars will dominate.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • For the past two decades, superheroes and sequels have dominated at the box office.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Or about the forty million years when moss dominated the planet?
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In a state dominated by health care giants, Tufts Medicine has struggled to compete.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • Vogt wanted Cruise to dominate the market much in the same way that Uber dominated Lyft.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
  • This year’s Grammys is set to be dominated by women, something that Jones says has been a long time coming.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The field, long dominated by white men, has been forced to reckon with its homogeneity.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The tension between past and future dominates the second half of the narrative.
    — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Performance is top of the line, with the 10-core GPU dominating our benchmark tests, and the advertised 18 hours of battery life on a single charge is a game-changer.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 15 June 2023
  • But there’s so much more beyond the headlines that dominated the press cycle around its release.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The Wildcats looked the part of tournament favorites, executing on both ends of the court and dominating the second half in Salt Lake City.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The main living space is dominated by two outsize pieces, both by artists with connections to Freeman’s gallery.
    — Travis Diehl Dean Kaufman, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Cougars largely dominated the attack despite what the scoreboard said.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Confidence: Medium-High Sunshine dominates Monday and the cold air starts to pull away, allowing highs to climb to the upper 40s to lower 50s.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The Bulls were driving downfield, at home, against an Alabama defense that had dominated it for most of Saturday with a chance to take a lead or tie.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Although many trends arose over the course of the year, one major theme that dominated was wearability.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023

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