Example sentences for: prevailing

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

  • But instead of drawing attention to economic problems, the prevailing Clinton rule is to emphasize the good news.

  • And feminists have an obligation to counter the prevailing tendency to dismiss accusers as "nutty and slutty."

  • The prevailing complaint against Wolf is that she's a permissive, condom-loving liberal who pushes sex on kids.

  • North of Santa Maria Novella, spare a glance at the simple, clean-lined architecture of the Stazione Centrale (main railway station), built in 1935 during Mussolini’s heyday but somehow defying the prevailing monumental bombast of the Fascist regime that you can see in the monstrosity of Milan’s central station.

  • Not, one hopes, un qualified, but less qualified, under otherwise prevailing standards, than people who get passed over.


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