SUPREMACY in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for SUPREMACY, such as:

1. Coal gave the region industrial supremacy.
2. A tumult of feelings inside her fought for supremacy.
3. For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.
4. White supremacy is a racist ideology asserting white people are superior to other races.
5. He has curbed the religious police, who enforced Sunni supremacy and derided others as infidels.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPREMACY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
supremacy
 n.  dominance; power to dominate or defeat
Classic Sentence:
1  Now, if to this consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
2  They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striving for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their antlers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
3  He well knew that the authority of an Indian chief was so little conventional, that it was oftener maintained by physical superiority than by any moral supremacy he might possess.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  Within was a paddock in an uncultivated state, though bearing evidence of having once been tilled; but the heath and fern had insidiously crept in, and were reasserting their old supremacy.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  If Britain were driven into war with one confederacy, it would assure the supremacy of the other confederacy, whether they joined in the war or not.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
6  For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
7  Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of enchained authority is condensed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE
8  The second method is to provide yourself with allies or companions, taking heed, however, to retain in your own hands the chief command, the seat of government, and the titular supremacy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
9  Violent dissensions breaking out in Rome between the commons and the nobles, it appeared to the Veientines and Etruscans that now was their time to deal a fatal blow to the Roman supremacy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXV.
Example Sentence:
1  The company has begun to challenge the supremacy of the current leading manufacturers in the textiles industry.
2  A tumult of feelings inside her fought for supremacy.
3  The conservative old guard had re-established its political supremacy.
4  Coal gave the region industrial supremacy.
5  White supremacy is a racist ideology asserting white people are superior to other races.
6  He has curbed the religious police, who enforced Sunni supremacy and derided others as infidels.