How to Use superiority in a Sentence

superiority

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  • His success has given him a false sense of superiority.
  • For all the talk of City’s superiority leading up to the game, it was won by the finest of margins.
    — James Robson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • There's this moral superiority that creeps up in him and then a bowl is put in front of him and that levels the playing field.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Every bucket brought one side of the gym to its feet and the bands dueled for superiority throughout the night.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2022
  • During the cold war, the Soviet Union pushed its space program as a way of proving its superiority over the U.S. to countries around the world.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This fixation on male superiority was a sign of the times not just in academia but in society at large.
    — Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The bloc established the NDB as part of its efforts to pry economic superiority away from the West.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • For just as long, many cyclists have tightly held on to a sense of moral superiority about their machines.
    — Zoë Beery, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022
  • Russia has much more aircraft than Ukraine but has yet to take air superiority over the country.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The Ukrainians didn’t achieve air-superiority, but then neither did the Russians.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But the text message revealed more about his views on racial superiority.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Despite its superiority in these areas, there is one display spec that isn’t quite cutting edge: The refresh rate caps out at just over 90 Hz.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The character is at once a vision of strength, demonstrating her superiority by outsmarting the men around her, and the punchline of some of the film’s crudest humor.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
  • But the first stages of the battle have already begun, with cruise missile bombardments, troop movements to encircle the city and a fight to gain air superiority.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The close nature of the fighting largely negates — for the moment — Russia’s superiority in artillery barrages and airstrikes.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Thanks to strategic superiority, Napoleon still came out on top.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • That's about where the Elite superiority ended, though.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Then, tragically, the Nazis come to power and see the ship as a source of power and propaganda, a symbol of their superiority.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The fascistic hyper-patriotism now pumped out by the Kremlin’s TV studios is but the latest version of an abiding claim to superiority over the West.
    — Daniel Beer, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • That may have contributed to its failure to destroy enough radar and anti-aircraft units to gain air superiority.
    — Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Frank Bajak, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2022
  • If superiority is your dream and exclusivity is your wish, the Urus is a perfect match for your next SUV or collection.
    — Marc Grasso, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2022
  • The Bucs maintained their marginal-favorite status all week despite Seattle’s superiority, both on the field and in the standings.
    — Catena Media, al, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile, his son Dom isn’t as overt and hides his transgressions, showing a sense of superiority that he wasn’t flagrant like his father before him.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
  • In Ukraine, Russia has clear military superiority yet has been unable to seize Kyiv or capture and hold major cities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Russia should have enough troops, aided by air superiority, to repel the Ukrainian attack and create a stalemate, the person said, even if the record of Russian command failures leaves room for doubt.
    — Marc Champion, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • Not at basketball, Topgolf or Super Smash Bros., the debates about superiority raging on bus rides and in hotel rooms.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Cowboys fans rightfully believe there are only two NFC teams with any claim to superiority right now.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • The razor-thin heels and pointed-toe shapes of traditional pumps have cycled back into style after years of chunky shoe superiority.
    — Meg Donohue, ELLE, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Starlink played a key role in Ukraine’s new artillery fire coordination systems which gave Ukraine a surprising superiority in the initial months of the War.
    — Mihir Tripathy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The result can be a sense of moral superiority, often attended by a process of purification.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023

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