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• The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.From the entry office
• After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.From the entry engagement
• The prevailing opinion was for additional planning time.From the entry prevailing
• Perhaps I can prevail upon him to change his mind.From the entry prevail upon
• The apparent futility of trying to counteract the prevailing social forces had left her thoroughly demotivated in her daily life.From the entry demotivated
• The prevailing wind in the Roaring Forties is westerly.From the entry prevailing wind
• The event deepened the prevailing gloom.From the entry deepen
• Dead calm prevails over the Atlantic.From the entry dead calm
• The Parthian Empire became involved in an extended period of conflict with the Roman Republic and Empire that lasted for three centuries, until the latter eventually prevailed.From the entry Parthian Empire
• “I love that loungewear has become a prevailing new category,” said Barbara Lippert, 65, a writer.2022 April 12, Rhonda Garelick, “Am I Done Suffering for Fashion?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2022. From the entry cardigan
• We never find it with banquets, where the soccus and the solea prevail.2022, Jan Radicke, Roman Women's Dress..., p. 99. From the entry calceus
• A dank duochrome prevailed, matte silver and green-black, curled fog strangling the pines.2018, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, A Measure of Darkness. From the entry duochrome
• False reporting, and plenty of it - but we will prevail!2016 May 15, Donald Trump, tweet quoted in 2019, Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming, Hachette Books. From the entry witch-hunt
• If the deletionist philosophy prevails, as I suspect it will, the inclusionist Wikipedia will be lost forever.2016, Nicholas Carr, Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations. From the entry inclusionist
• This genus exemplifies some of the prevailing taxonomic uncertainties in halocyprids.2016 January 6, “Identification, Discrimination, and Discovery of Species of Marine Planktonic Ostracods Using DNA Barcodes”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry halocyprid
• If I didn't prevail at the convention, that would be my answer.2011, Christine O'Donnell, Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again, page 169. From the entry primary
• Now a new study confirms that confusion about interpreting living wills prevails in prehospital settings, as well.2009 February 24, Jane E. Brody, “Putting Muscle Behind End-of-Life Wishes”, in New York Times. From the entry prehospital
• I can trade Mendicant ship for ship now and still prevail.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary). From the entry trade
• “A kind of quantomania prevails in the assessment of technologies,” Dr.2007 May 5, Katie Hafner, “Ida R. Hoos Is Dead at 94; a Critic of Systems Analysis”, in New York Times. From the entry quantomania
• A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich.2007, Heinz Eduard Todt, Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth, Glen Harold Stassen, Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer's Theological Ethics in Context…. From the entry heroicize
• “Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul.”2004 October 1, “Eight-and-a-Half-Tails”, in Champions of Kamigawa, Wizards of the Coast. From the entry virtue
• The gypsa are overlying conductive rocks which could correspond to a flysch formation with prevailing pelitic fraction.1988, Karst Hydrogeology and Karst Environment Protection: Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Association of…. From the entry gypsa
• "Similar results prevailed for number of awakenings during the night and feelings of restedness in the morning."1988, Kenneth L. Lichstein, Clinical Relaxation Strategies - Page 276. From the entry restedness
• A carnivallike atmosphere, depending on the weather, prevails throughout the day.1986, Benjamin C. Duke, The Japanese school: lessons for industrial America, page 196. From the entry carnivallike
• The right-wing Reversionist focuses on a small town past where law, order and predictability prevail.1983, P. Susan Penfold, Gillian Walker, Women and the psychiatric paradox, page 134. From the entry reversionist
• But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.1983, Verbatim, volume 10, page 25. From the entry sesquipedalophobia
• Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.1982 December 25, “Opinion: Children at the Window”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Sep 2016. From the entry better angels
• According to the prevailing adolescent criteria Roger was not good looking.1981 February 7, Nancy Walker, “A Gentle Guy”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 13. From the entry build
• Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.1980, P. Turner, Continental Red Beds, page 80. From the entry seif
• The latter eventually prevailed and no military moves against Yang were undertaken.1976, James B. Parsons, “YANG Ying-lung [楊應龍]”, in L. Carrington Goodrich, Chaoying Fang, editors, Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644…. From the entry P'eng-shui
• In his rise to completedness and fall back into primaevalness he prevails in Nature’s play of ‘temporization’.1972, Vincent Vycinas, “Culture”, in Search for Gods, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, section 8 (Spatio-Temporal Play), page 176. From the entry primaevalness
• Good news on the summer harvest prevailed in the countryside of Chienchiang County, Hupeh.[1965 July 9 [1965 June 7], “Chienchiang County Reports Increase in Crops”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 131, Foreign…. From the entry mu
• A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress.1964, Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man […] , Boston: Beacon Press, page 1. From the entry unfreedom
• Here the prevailing winds are northerly and northeasterly and bring rain to T'ai-pei and I-lan hsien.1953, Norton S. Ginsburg, The Economic Resources and Development of Formosa, Institute of Pacific Relations, page 4. From the entry Tʻai-pei

Meaning of prevail

1. verb To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
2. verb To triumph; to be victorious.
3. verb To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.

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Questions about prevail in a sentence

How do you use prevail in a sentence?

Prevail is used as a verb. For example: “Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.”

What is a short sentence with prevail?

“Dead calm prevails over the Atlantic.”

What does prevail mean?

Prevail means to be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.