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The book has dominated the best-seller lists.

You remember how we dominated in JV basketball?

Modern irrigation devices, each capable of spraying 4.5 million liters of water a day, have produced a landscape dominated by geometric patterns of circular green islands of crops.

And so the music was secondary, if you will, to the dramatic cadence of language, to the way the rhythm of language was used to express feeling and used to add drama and of course as a result, instead of arias or solos, which would come to dominated Italian opera.

In fact, water probably once dominated the Venusian atmosphere.

Their physical structure is dominated by the skeletons of corals, which are carnivorous animals living off zooplankton.

Over a period of decades, dark-colored forms became an increasingly large fraction of some populations and eventually came to dominate peppered moth populations in certain areas —especially those of extreme industrialization such as the Ruhr Valley of Germany and the Midlands of England.

Gause said that whenever you've got two similar species competing for the exact same limited resources, one of them will have some sort of advantage, however slight that'll eventually enable this species to dominate and ultimately exclude the other one, even cause it to become extinct.

He denied that his country wants to dominate Europe.

Women are no longer dominated by men at work.

Never allow her dominate you in any way, do not buy her drinks or hold/watch her purse for her.

You give in she's gonna dominate you forever.

To take an extreme example, farmlands dominated by a single crop are so unstable that one year of bad weather or the invasion of a single pest can destroy the entire crop.

This capacity for increased expressiveness, in fact, was essential to the romantic styles that dominated 19th century music.

These spices literarily dominated the way Europeans lived for centuries, how they traded and even how they used their imaginations.

The first is the heat capacity of the materials that constitute the city, which is typically dominated by concrete and asphalt.

Conversely, a pond with a stream flowing in one end and out the other, which dries up when the stream dries up, is clearly surface water dominated.

For example, a pond in hilly country that maintains a steady water level all through a dry summer in spite of having no streams flowing into it must obviously be seepage dominated.

In this case, push explanations dominate.

First, Venic’s intermediary functions in the Adriatic Sea, where it had dominated the business of shipping for other parties, were lost to direct trading.

Without predators, the species that is the best competitor for food, shelter, nesting sites, and other environmental resources tends to dominate and exclude the species with which it competes. 

Such species generally grow rapidly and quickly dominate new sites, excluding other species with lower invasion and growth rates.

So, exactly when and how did the Notothenioids come to dominate the southern ocean?

To have a single family of fish dominating an entire ocean.

So, why did this happen? How did an elite group, a few business giants, how did they end up dominating, controlling a number of important national industries in the last quarter of the 19th century?

Similarly, wind action has scoured fine particles away from large areas, depositing them elsewhere as vast sand seas dominated by dunes or in sheets of loess (fine-grained soil deposits).

It's one of the biggest buildings in this area, and it really dominates this whole place.