Example sentences for: supremacy

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

  • After almost 50 years, a new economics textbook is challenging the supremacy of Paul Samuelson's Economics . Written by Harvard's N. Gregory Mankiw, the book, Principles of Economics, received a $1.

  • The literal return to Africa was seen as the only option for blacks because, they argued, white supremacy could never be displaced.

  • During the supremacy of the Barbary Coast pirates in the 16th and 17th centuries, Formentera was so vulnerable it had to be abandoned, and it wasn’t resettled until the 18th century.

  • When the first Tarzan books were published, the British Empire ruled the waves, the United States had recently joined the ranks of imperial powers, and white supremacy was the norm in the United States and throughout the world.

  • In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici (1449–1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.


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