Sample Sentences for
dominate
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    She completely dominates her boyfriend.
    dominates = controls
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    Some expect Africanized bees to dominate European bees in semitropical regions.
    dominate = be most abundant
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    I was afraid that your hot head might dominate your good heart.  (source)
    dominate = overpower
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    "You dominated those horsemen with the way you looked at them," he said.  (source)
    dominated = controlled
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    Sometimes they're inherited from one parent carrying the dominant gene.  (source)
    dominant = controlling or most influential
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    Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant, they savored the right of domination.  (source)
    domination = having power over others
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    We have no intention of letting you dominate unfairly.  (source)
    dominate = control; or be most influential
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    Dominating the parlor is an old upright piano.  (source)
    Dominating = most conspicuous in
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    Different emotions battled for dominance in his mind and heart.  (source)
    dominance = most powerful influence
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    The same face dominates the Erudite library; it is plastered across every article Erudite releases.  (source)
    dominates = is conspicuous everywhere in
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    In addition, Adam taught himself to shoot using his nondominant left eye.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nondominant means not and reverses the meaning of dominant. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    In the past few months, he'd already lost an on-air bet with the traffic guy that resulted in him having to perform an embarrassing (and thank God, not complete) striptease at a local dance club, attended about a hundred contest-winner cocktail parties, and wrestled a man named the Dominator at the Hilton for charity.†  (source)
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    Because it is a dominantly inherited disease, this means that 50 percent of the offspring of persons with VHL will eventually develop it.†  (source)
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