Example sentences for: primacy

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

  • Intellectual vanity being what it is, people who had fought for and won jobs at Microsoft and who still must fight every six months for primacy on the employee-ranking scale (which determines--gasp!

  • Above all he emphasized the primacy of the field.

  • They interpret the "next generation" strategy, Gates' assignment to it, and his adversarial references to AOL as a belated concession that AOL was right about the primacy of the Internet, Microsoft was wrong about the primacy of the PC, and Microsoft now has to play catch-up.

  • Ptolemy (second century) was the first and boldest in a long succession of spin doctors for the primacy of human beings.

  • In a 1995 encyclical, John Paul II broached the possibility that, in the interests of Christian unity, he or his successors might "find a way of exercising the [papal] primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation."


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