Example sentences for: prevailing

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

  • It appears that, at best, a species tree can be viewed as a prevailing phylogenetic trend, which, as far as deep branchings are concerned, may not even apply to a majority of the genes in a genome.

  • 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.

  • Kathryn Harrison's status as voodoo doll has nothing to do with the actual merits or failings of her book, but is entirely owing to how economically her case concentrates the fears, resentments, misconceptions, and idiocies prevailing right now.

  • Bob Livingston, a bluff Republican representative from Louisiana, had somehow become our chairman and was summing up the prevailing consensus that the election was free and fair.

  • Madrid’s diverse architecture, while not the equal of a Paris or London, traces the city’s stages of expansion and prevailing styles of the different eras.


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