Sample sentences for PREPONDERANCE

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Definition

having greater weight (metaphorically); i.e., superiority in amount or influence, or importance

a preponderance of evidence against the defendant

preponderance = having greater weight (metaphorically); i.e., superiority in amount or influence, or importance

Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
But he was twice the man the rest were, and his last night's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds.
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Treasure Island
the preponderance of good over evil
She became aware, as she drew close to the Queen, of a preponderance of faeries standing very near them, in a circle around their Lady.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
"Perhaps," says Simon, "we are also — preponderantly — what we forget."
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
But he was twice the man the rest were, and his last night's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
I've never seen such a preponderance of evidence implicating a suspect.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
It is a disease of pregnancy, of mysterious origin, found preponderantly among poor women.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Due to the preponderance of such agricultural methods in the cultivation of illegal substances, we order you to cease and desist immediately....
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Among the Hidden
"Well—no, you have tremendous vanity, but it'll amuse the people who notice its preponderance."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
A second and still greater cause of the preponderance of this court may be adduced.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
But I am constrained to take a view of the case which gives the preponderance to Mr. Farebrother's claims.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
And in balancing his faults with his perfections, the latter seemed rather to preponderate.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
Because of the preponderance of Americans, the crowd has a garish and surreal look about it.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
This purpose had not been preponderantly to make money-it had been rather to learn something and to do something.
Henry James -- Washington Square
And while it is questionable on which side the scale will preponderate, it is certain that a government less expensive would be incompetent to the purposes of the Union.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Close at their side stood Heyward, with an interest in both, that, at such a moment of intense uncertainty, scarcely knew a preponderance in favor of her whom he most loved.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

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