Sample sentences for PREVALENT

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Definition

encountered commonly

Malaria is prevalent in that region.

Political discontent is prevalent in the state.
It shows that at last a reasonable and steady view of the matter is becoming prevalent among us.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Henry David Thoreau -- Resistance to Civil Government

prevalent = commonly encountered

the prevalence of illiteracy in Mississippi;
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help

prevalence = commonness

But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn.
Austen, Jane -- Emma
It was prevalent everywhere.
Dickens, Charles -- A Tale Of Two Cities
Despite my two disastrous experiences, here was John Barleycorn, prevalent and accessible everywhere in the community, luring and drawing me.
London, Jack -- John Barleycorn
Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion prevalent in the time of Methuselah.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
* In those days thievery was incredibly prevalent.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
As for "lung sick," which is a dreadful form of pneumonia, very prevalent in this country, they had all been inoculated against it.
Haggard, Rider H. -- King Solomon's Mines
He sank, with many other unfortunate people, under a fever prevalent in a Western city which we happened to visit.
Collins, Wilkie -- The Haunted Hotel
He sank under a contagious disorder, very prevalent at that time, and vulgarly termed the jail fever.
Dickens, Charles -- Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty
In other respects, she was in perfect harmony with the prevalent feeling.
Collins, Wilkie -- I Say No
Straight lines are too prevalent - too uninterruptedly continued - or clumsily interrupted at right angles.
Poe, Edgar Allan -- Poems
The guests at Windygates were most of them in the garden, enjoying the morning sunshine, after a prevalent mist and rain for some days past.
Collins, Wilkie -- Man And Wife
The Ark was discovered stranded on the eastern shore, where it had long before been driven with the prevalent northwest winds.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
It fits with a prevalent theory.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Commonly uttered by the host of a meal, it is a holdover from days when poisoning of guests was prevalent among the clans.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
But there existed in the Western world an element that baffled and frightened the Communist party:the prevalence of self-achieved literacy.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy

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