prevail

[prɪˈveɪl]

Definition:
1. Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance.
2. Be valid, applicable, or true.
3. Continue to exist.
4. Prove superior.
5. Use persuasion successfully.

Use 'prevail' in a sentence:

1. Justice will prevail.
2. In the long shadow of 9/11, only united will we prevail.
3. If you are at home trying to decide where to go for dinner, however, the knowledge component may prevail, and you decide to go where you can eat a healthier meal.
4. There will probably be months of legal tussling, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.
5. We must, each of us, prevail upon our congressman to act.
6. Making a willing sacrifice, the wolves prevail.
7. Only one can prevail.
8. Financial, not moral, considerations will prevail in a plutocracy.
9. Virtue will prevail against evil.
10. This reflects attitudes and values prevailing in society.
11. Whether a public plan will prevail or not is anyone's guess.
12. If you sit back, shrug, and say you can't do anything, their interests will prevail over yours.
13. It would be the first time in human history that economic necessity has prevailed over military aggrandizement.
14. The direction of the prevailing winds should be taken into account.
15. Such conditions prevail throughout much of northern South America and Cuba, but many Central American savannas, as well as coastal areas of Brazil and the island of Trinidad, do not fit this pattern.
16. Suppose wisdom does prevail and I don't scold him.
17. In case there is any divergence of interpretation of this agreement, the. text shall prevail.
18. This activism and the views underlying it came to prevail in the United States labor movement and in 1935 the AFL unequivocally reversed its position on health legislation.
19. We hoped that common sense would prevail.
20. Which scenario will prevail in the months ahead?
21. Political and personal ambitions are starting to prevail over economic interests.
22. Which method will ultimately prevail remains to be seen.
23. Example: Those beliefs still prevail among certain social groups.
24. Order seems, at first glance, to prevail.
25. It was an argument in which neither side could prevail over the other.
26. Adequate housing is possible in developed, mixed economies wherein the interests of the poor have prevailed.
27. With luck, wiser counsel will prevail.
28. He broke from prevailing orthodoxies and asked the awkward questions.
29. Compassion can and must now prevail.
30. Different doctrines prevail in different times.
31. We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons.
32. The host team eventually prevailed over the Italian team 86-75.
33. Is this truth mighty, and will it prevail?
34. None of these conditions prevail at present.
35. How could any of them truly prevail in pulling you down?
36. The geocentric theory continue to prevail in Western thought for almost 2,000 years, until the 17th century.
37. Truth will prevail.
38. Until fairly recently, it seemed that Chevron would prevail.
39. The extremists prevailed, and the security minister was canned.
40. There will probably be months of legal confrontation, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.
41. I do hope he will prevail over the rebels.
42. He appears to have the votes he needs to prevail.
43. A similar situation prevails in America.
44. We hope that common sense would prevail.
45. I hope this book is not yet another restatement of the prevailing wisdom.
46. Rick still believes that justice will prevail.
47. The prevailing view seems to be that they will find her guilty.
48. The wall gives some protection from the prevailing wind.
49. In the end, wiser counsels prevailed.
50. Do you think she could be prevailed upon to do those things?
51. How people in a certain era bury their dead says much about the prevailing attitudes toward death.
52. Justice will prevail over tyranny.
53. Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea.
54. Those beliefs still prevail among certain social groups.
55. Fortunately, common sense prevailed.