Example sentences for: supremacy

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

  • 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.

  • In the mythology of white supremacy, even before Charles Darwin, black Africans and other nonwhites were assimilated to apes (Thomas Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia , finds credible the rumor that African women mate with orangutans).

  • There was a struggle between the Qing Dynasty and rebels determined to overthrow such traditional values as respect for religion, private property, and male supremacy.

  • With its roots in white supremacy and McCarthyism, the movement really represents the rise of a genuine American-bred fascism--which, as Berman points out, is precisely what the anarchists had organized to combat.

  • The maritime republic of Genoa rose to challenge Venice’s supremacy.


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