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.
  • The first day of the draft was dominated, of course, by the quarterbacks.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But, that being said, Epic truly has come to dominate the space in the US.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • These questions will dominate the months ahead as Maryland licks its wounds.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • Tennessee has to gear up the big plays from the outside to keep up, but the D - along with the ability to dominate on the boards - is great at guarding the three.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Sinner was missing with a virus and Alcaraz was dispatched by Humbert to open up the path, but Zverev was bold enough to crash through the gate and dominate.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This is not a time to sit back and let the waves of change wash over us or allow one voice to dominate our technology choices.
    — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Around that time, a summer rally in tech stocks gave investors a short reprieve from the selloff that dominated much of the year.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Usman had dominated the first four rounds and was up on all the scorecards before Edwards landed the telling blow.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Or about the forty million years when moss dominated the planet?
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In some ways, this mirrored some of the Heat’s losses to lottery teams, with the 76ers dominating on a night Joel Embiid sat out with a sore left foot.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 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
  • Anthony Davis became the fifth Laker to have a 30-point, 20-rebound game while dominating in the paint.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • Pluto, now classified as a dwarf planet along with Eris, is just one of the largest among the scores of icy bodies that exist there — and doesn’t dominate its own orbit and clear the orbit of other objects.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024

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