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
  • Some users marveled at the superiority of Sora’s videos, noting the pace of AI progress in less than one year.
    — Will Henshall, TIME, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The beauty of this is that the superiority of her work is what maintains her role as a cultural icon.
    — Claudia Rankine, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But here’s Moore narrating an ad for the police that promises new recruits a false sense of superiority and the chance to fire guns all the time.
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • One of the great unifiers is our sense of superiority… to someone.
    — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Here’s hoping the teams can settle their superiority on the field in what would be a golden state series.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Russia has much more aircraft than Ukraine but has yet to take air superiority over the country.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
  • This feeling is called schadenfreude, and it is often rooted in a sense of superiority over the subject of our ridicule.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The Final Girl trope has changed since it was first introduced in the 1970s, when the sole survivor often triumphed due to their moral superiority.
    — Rachel Choy, refinery29.com, 16 June 2024
  • But the notion that the Cold War was won simply because of the superiority of Western ideas is incorrect.
    — Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
  • In the past, Vaughn might have been tempted to douse all Yancy’s dialogue with the sour aftertaste of superiority, but here his one-liners feel more like a peck on the cheek than a slap in the face.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Opting for off-list treats such as eel was a lavish gesture that telegraphed a sense of superiority and disdain for the hoi polloi.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
  • It's expected to give the NATO nations air superiority through the '80s and into the '90s.
    — Sheldon M. Gallager, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2021
  • 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
  • Boris, meanwhile, sits on a tree branch in front of the puppet, clearly relishing his flesh-and-blood superiority.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Every brand claims superiority and none means much without sight, touch and scent.
    — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Some claim their superiority, most suffer and a few pass.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • For months, Canada looked at the U.S. pandemic response and felt a sense of superiority.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Tanton was also drawing closer to Jared Taylor, whose writings about the superiority of white people had earned him a zealous following.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Regardless, the group's surviving members are still fighting in Gaza despite the ravaging of the strip and Israel's mammoth military superiority.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2024

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