How to Use predominantly in a Sentence

predominantly

adverb
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  • In predominantly Black parts of the city, like the East Side, many residents still can’t leave their homes.
    — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The bill is named in honor of the pastor who was killed along with eight others in a predominantly Black church in Charleston in 2015.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But the voters [Haley] is going for are still predominantly White, and that’s part of the story here.
    — Maeve Reston and Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This is compared to around one-third of predominantly white schools.
    — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 13 Aug. 2024
  • On a predominantly White campus, one thing that made the course feel special was that a majority of the class was Black.
    — William Wan, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Doreen Gounard had long battled the feeling of not belonging in the predominantly white and male world of sailing.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Maybe a few hard-core film fans knew about the director’s role, but movies were predominantly star-driven.
    — Simon Abrams, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
  • By 2019, the district once known as predominantly Black had become about equally white and Black.
    — Amy Qin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The woman is white and lives in a predominantly white neighborhood.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • More than one in four South Carolinians is Black, but just one of the state's seven districts is predominantly Black.
    — Caroline Curran, ABC News, 10 July 2023
  • The predominantly natural wine list leans French with Jura whites and pét-nats from the Loire Valley.
    — Zoe Ruffner Camille Sojit Pejcha Zoe Ruffner Kyle Beechey Osman Can Yerebakan Samuel Rutter, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • Nearly two-thirds of the fires took place in ZIP codes that are predominantly Black, the investigation found.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Within that range, the top 1 percent — which holds about as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, and is predominantly white — will dictate the broadest share of the money flow.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith Karl Russell, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • The data shows about half of crimes in the West 7th area were reported near Foch Street, a street predominantly occupied by restaurants and bars.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Their plumage is predominantly black and white, similar to penguins, but their bright beaks and orange feet set them apart.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Williamson said the class is empowering for her students, who are predominantly Black and brown girls.
    — Chandelis Duster, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The bill is an all-women showcase of predominantly Nineties country stars.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The boats that have been removed thus far are 50 years old on average, and are predominantly made of fiberglass and foam, officials said.
    — oregonlive, 7 July 2023
  • The limited options for pointe shoes and tights are just a reminder that the larger ballet world is still predominantly white.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Many of these sales took place in low-income, predominantly Black neighborhoods that have high rates of vacant homes.
    — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2022
  • How: Shepherd predominantly relies on tiny jigs at this time of year, noting Jenko’s Fringe Fry as a favorite.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Most scotch whisky is aged in used barrels, predominantly ex-bourbon, and the use of virgin oak tends to give the liquid a burst of flavor with notes of oak, vanilla, gentle smoke, and stone fruit.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The onetime iCarly star now thinks of herself predominantly as a writer and is working on a new novel.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The school was in the Nineteenth Ward, in southwest Rochester, a predominantly Black, working- and middle-class neighborhood of century-old homes.
    — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Netanya is a predominantly Jewish city, but about a third of the 3,500 students who study at the college are Palestinian Israelis.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Both are predominantly black and white from bill to tail and can be difficult to tell apart, particularly in flight.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Over the course of two years, the Vogue Film Initiative has incubated and produced 17 short films; the projects are predominantly in Mandarin, yet some are bilingual.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Black people were able to buy homes in urban neighborhoods that were once predominantly white.
    — Corey Williams, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Pizarro also had to overcome the hurdle of being a woman and a minority—Latina—in a predominantly male industry.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The state and private plaintiffs contend the map was not predominantly motivated by race and instead a desire to protect certain incumbents.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024

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