Example sentences for: preponderance

How can you use “preponderance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is the errors of fact that occasion the greatest irritation, however: many of them could have been caught had the book been subjected to a careful reading by a knowledgeable American editor, for, as will be seen, the preponderance of them occurs when the editors try to describe things American:

  • It is far more likely that the preponderance of evidence would show that an entry with a capital M might—conceivably—warrant a comment like, “ rarely lower case .” Only the second entry, a noun including the senses “native[s] or inhabitant[s]; descendant; and language[s],” shows “ cap .” Where Gove's researchers came up with such highly detailed information about the distribution of such forms is hard to imagine.

  • Further evidence is that the many Turkish loanwords, in use for centuries and with no obvious preponderance of one gender, are, with very few exceptions, fully inflected, as are Italian musical and nautical terms, likewise of long standing.

  • As in any collection of family pictures, there’s a preponderance of portraits, though here the aunts and uncles tend to be princesses, cardinals, and popes.

  • If enzyme or ECG data are unavailable, a MI is considered to have occurred when there is a preponderance of clinical evidence based on patient signs, symptoms, ECG changes, and pathological findings.


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