Example sentences for: prevailing

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

  • This focus reflects the prevailing bias, which is to choose when it is acceptable to use placebo rather than to choose when it is acceptable to omit placebo.

  • The prevailing view is that force may not achieve success in disarming Iraq, but diplomacy had definitely achieved failure.

  • This prevailing Common Strategy of cooperation and nonconfrontation meant that even a hardened cockpit door would have made little difference in a hijacking.

  • Where the prevailing wage required by federal law is disputed or under administrative review, a worker's claim that the employer failed to pay the prevailing wage may not arise until the worker has returned home.

  • There's a precision, a prevailing cleanliness, a crispness of focus, a strong use of light and shadow.


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