How To Use Preponderate In A Sentence
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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
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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,
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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
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Christians preponderate in the population of that part of the country.
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Family-reasons, in that case, preponderated, as well at Rome, as at Florence.
Sir Charles Grandison
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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.
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The verdict of the jury sufficiently shows how the evidence preponderated in their minds.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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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
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In 1845 a Russian investigator disguised as a Kazakh visited Tarbagatai in Xinjiang and confirmed that British goods preponderated there among imported manufactures.
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Upon the whole, the sweet greatly preponderated over the bitter, so Miss
Nicholas Nickleby
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Bedouin Sheikhs, was not hereditary; though it remained in the same tribe as long as the power of that tribe preponderated.
Travels in Arabia
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Bach is essentially a "monody," a composition of one idea, which preponderates so decidedly as to enforce its character and individuality upon the work; nay, it is the work.
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
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In the polar regions, therefore, the momentum of the surface air preponderates, and, in this case, the _surface_ current is towards the equator, and the upper current towards the poles.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
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Other characters in the ship I shall not describe; some were good, some bad, and some indifferent, but I am happy to remark the first-named preponderated.
A Sailor of King George
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The calceolaria of the present day has [v. 04 p. 0969] been developed into a highly decorative plant, in which the herbaceous habit has preponderated.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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As this latter opinion preponderated, Daniel did not find that he was treated with any marked respect in his native town.
Lady Anna
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In Racine the poetry preponderates, with the drama a close second.
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But on the whole, only two generations, two ‘classes,’ preponderate - the ripe and the ailing.
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Although it was a mixed class, girls preponderated.
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New York, 1906, p. 89) places hymns in this measure among those "in which the verbal accent preponderates and the metrical accent only makes itself noticeable in certain places (particularly in the fourth line and when a line closes with a word accentuated on the penultimate)".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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If water preponderated in it, cold ought to solidify it; if earth preponderated, then fire ought to do so.
Meteorology
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In business, a single objective preponderates: making money.
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Both were charged as being concerned in a murder, of which the profits were stated at seven millions of francs; and for some days the scandal of this trial preponderated over the absorbing importance of the last elections held under Charles X.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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Although it was a mixed class, girls preponderated.
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In Tosches's swanky new Tribeca pad, wood preponderates, wood of differing darkness and grains.
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Even though their career aspirations were less focussed, the economic imperative of escaping from unemployment, rural communities and lowly prospects in the labour market preponderated.
