How to Use domination in a Sentence

domination

noun
  • But this year, that domination wasn’t just on the court or on the field.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • All-Stars scored goals in the shutout of the South – improving the North domination in the series to 18-3-1.
    — Al.com Reports, al, 20 July 2022
  • There’s no denying her domination of the charts, as Swift logs five of the top 10 albums and nine of the top 40.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The Vikings surprised all with two-way domination in the first half.
    — Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • From there, his pass sailed out of the end zone, and the Pioneers stormed the field to celebrate the end of a decade’s domination.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Some supporters will love the domination Leeds tend to have from the first minute until the last.
    — Beren Cross, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Iowa’s domination of Indiana and a win over then-top-10 Iowa State have the Hawkeyes thinking big in the top five.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The success of the seconds-long tune is a clear byproduct of the movie’s total domination.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The domination from Oceanside (20-11) was shown in all facets, not just in their attacks.
    — Breven Honda, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Power and domination are in this view the alpha and omega.
    — Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The scene conforms to the fractal pattern fanning out across the text: the fact of domination, the feeling of being ruled.
    — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For the video, Lipa burns up the dance floor in a rehearsal room, lending to the song’s future dance-floor domination.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Given how starters are used in the age of bullpen domination, the 3,000 plateau may be unreachable . . .
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The Halloween night domination of the Bengals gave false hope that the defense had made a 180-degree turn.
    — Irie Harris, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Georgia’s bread and butter is its run game and domination at the line of scrimmage.
    — cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Here’s a look at the ten brands that rolled their way to the top in 2024, each with a different formula for domination.
    — Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • In this view, Russia is the bulwark of the rest of the world against Western aggression and domination.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The source of Nvidia’s domination is its massive lead in the AI hardware market.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 22 May 2024
  • When the cold optics of domination are left unchallenged, the dead die twice.
    — Daniel Borzutzky Anne Boyer, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Gates, the ultimate strategist, even mapped out a plan for total domination of the buzzy new tech in a 1995 memo to his staff.
    — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • For a minute in the 1990s, Failure seemed destined for world domination.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 June 2025
  • The war marked the end of three centuries of European world domination.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 Nov. 2021
  • In its Pinky and the Brain world-domination quest, Microsoft has designed its own stage for Xbox and set it, too.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Senior Connor Rich also is back, and was a big part of the domination the Titans had up front last year.
    — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Sign up What does this mean for YouTube's breakout star and his dreams of cross-platform domination?
    — Rafi Schwartz, The Week Us, theweek, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Part of that is her desire for, put it in simple terms, world domination.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 19 July 2022
  • From the mind of prolific writer John Scalzi comes the story of a cat who plans world domination.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • The domination has continued this year with the Dodgers winning 14 of 19 games.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • From Bosnia to Rwanda to Ukraine, rape has been used as a weapon of war—a strategy of domination, humiliation, and ethnic terror.
    — Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • Amelie overrides her prime directive and begins enacting her main agenda, which is to get uploaded into cyberspace and take over all online networks in the name of world domination, yadda yadda yadda.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2025

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