Sentence for prevailing | Use prevailing in a sentence

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• Only, it must be a lady and a prevailing lady to give the tap. (10)
• There was a thought yet nearer, a more prevailing, more impetuous concern. (4)
• He meant this for a sarcastic thrust at a prevailing foible of the profession. (9)
• Laetitia remembered how winning and prevailing Miss Middleton could be in her confidences. (10)
• A delicate scent of flowers from the masses in the chancel mixed with the light and the prevailing silence. (9)
• The hosts of romanticism swarmed back over him and his followers, and prevailed, as we see them still prevailing. (9)
• Diana raged at a prevailing strength on the part of that huge bully world, which seemed really to embrace the atmosphere. (10)
• Not that I am an advocate for the prevailing fashion of acquiring a perfect knowledge of all languages, arts, and sciences. (4)
• When compared with the rich polyphony of the prevailing Church style they seem at the first blush to indicate retrogression. (3)
• Whence these songs came is by no means certain, the prevailing opinion being that they were of Greek origin, modified by Hebrew influence. (3)
• The prevailing tone of the city and the sky is gray; but under the cloudy heaven there is no responsive Gothic solemnity in the architecture. (9)
• Among them of course there was a full force of brides from Niagara and elsewhere, and some curious forms of the prevailing infatuation appeared. (9)
• In northern nations it took the direction of rebellion against prevailing religious and political conditions, for example, in Germany and England. (3)
• Pace and progress pleased him less and less; there was an ostentation, too, about a car which he considered provocative in the prevailing mood of Labour. (8)

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