prevail

In a sentence

Six example sentences with prevail, each labelled with its topic.

• Westerly winds prevail along this coast for most of the year, which is why every old barn faces east.

  Environment

• In the survey, caution prevailed over curiosity: four in five students chose the familiar task rather than the unknown one.

  Psychology

• Brass prevails in the final movement, drowning the strings so completely that the conductor asked for eight fewer trumpets.

  Music

• Rural votes prevailed in the referendum, outnumbering the city by enough to carry the measure by six points.

  Politics

• Small family shops still prevail in the old town, where chain stores hold fewer than one storefront in ten.

  Economics

• Brick prevails on the street, so the one steel and glass house draws every passing eye.

  Architecture

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