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Example sentences for: presides

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

Springer himself presides, oleaginously, over this spectacle.
At the top of a sloping driveway, the stately Edwardian structure that was the original university building presides over the institution’s newer buildings.
To a Spanish speaker, apparently, the head of a committee presides, and that is it.
Jakes, who presides over a Dallas-based empire of books, tapes, and TV shows, wants to "heal" not just homosexuals, but all "men who are feminine in their mannerisms."
On one hand, she's a benevolent industrialist who presides over a warmly matriarchal society; on the other, she wants to destroy the forest, harness its resources, and exterminate its animal deities--chiefly the Spirit of the Forest, a magnificent deer god whose touch brings instant life or death, and who transforms at dusk into the towering Night Walker.