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Use hegemony in a sentence

Definition of hegemony:

  • (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others

Sentence Examples:

The sexual instinct has no hegemony.

It was the hegemony of the world.

Upon the fall of Napoleon she seized the continental hegemony, and will fight to keep it.

A well-knit hegemony of party interest is created.

It will have to yield also the revolutionary hegemony over the peasants.

Temporarily I lost the hegemony of my own soul.

England sees in our development the foundation of a hegemony which would weaken England.

Prussia exercised a true hegemony in Germany.

This hegemony was long contested.

Let me call it by its technical name, hegemony.

Athens has practically acknowledged defeat in the struggle for the hegemony of Greece.

It won military successes; it was gradually building up a hegemony in Italy.

And the hegemony of the Spartan should pass away.