How To Use preponderate In A Sentence
- We think it would be found that among women conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism preponderate, and that among men the preponderance is the other way about. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
- By a strange misadjustment, according to the Constitution, in those counties where the negro population so heavily preponderates, third grade teachers receive higher pay than first grade instructors in the counties where the white people are in excess. A slaveholder's daughter,
- Commines, an honester writer, though I fear, by the masters whom he pleased, not a much less servile courtier, says that the virtues of Louis XI. preponderated over his vices. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
- Christians preponderate in the population of that part of the country.
- Family-reasons, in that case, preponderated, as well at Rome, as at Florence. Sir Charles Grandison
- Surprisingly, the designer tries to do too much with the set, though, to be sure, a play in which mime and simulation preponderate leaves little room for a designer.
- The verdict of the jury sufficiently shows how the evidence preponderated in their minds. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- How great was my joy to see the well known Signature of my Friend after a Melancholy Solicitude of many months in which my hopes and fears alternately preponderated. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1782
- In 1845 a Russian investigator disguised as a Kazakh visited Tarbagatai in Xinjiang and confirmed that British goods preponderated there among imported manufactures.
- Upon the whole, the sweet greatly preponderated over the bitter, so Miss Nicholas Nickleby
