How to Use domino in a Sentence

domino

noun

• Dominoes is one of my favorite games.
• Our home is alive with cousins and friends, spontaneous talent shows, and the clatter of dominoes.
  — Caché McClay, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
• That was the first domino to fall for the Tigers last week.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2023
• That will be the first big domino to fall in the AFC North race.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2021
• And when the kids start talking, the dominoes start to fall.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 17 June 2019
• Sandy Hook seemed to him just the first domino in a long line of them.
  — Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• But this isn't the finger that knocks over the first domino.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2020
• In the park across the street, men played dominoes from morning to night.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Drury, who just came back this week, was the last of those dominoes to fall.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
• But for the sports world, that contest is just the first domino.
  — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 12 July 2018
• Stanley was the first domino to fall in this chain of events.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• And with that, the first dominoes began to fall in the new bowl cycle.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2019
• The first domino fell when Ford signed a deal with Tesla in May of 2023.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2024
• Stop to play dominoes at the park and look over the rooster sculptures.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 July 2024
• The domino games are legendary in the crew, chances to test our minds and our mouthpieces.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• The Hawks traded Brandon Hagel, the first domino to fall in the rebuild.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Much like what happened in March, the sports world came to a halt once the NBA became the first domino to fall.
  — Destine Gibson, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2020
• That cover-up cost the world precious time, and knocked over the first domino.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2020
• That is the next domino to fall and women in that state will now have to go elsewhere.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2022
• Long story short: Don't expect the Brewers to be one of the next dominoes to fall.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2023
• Janet Rucks, 66, was on the dock playing dominoes with her fiance when the storm hit.
  — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 May 2024
• And there's the dominoes that are now falling one after the other.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
• The works resemble domino tiles, a game Roland played while in jail.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Anybody who knows anything about City Hall and the feds, and the way dominoes fall along the Chicago Way, knew it.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2019
• And then after that the Pro Football Hall of Fame can follow as the next domino that falls.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2022
• The next domino to drop, however, could be Al Michaels.
  — cleveland, 16 Mar. 2022
• Other dominoes need to fall around the league at the position.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• And in that game of dominoes, just about everyone lost.
  — Michael Errigo, The Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• The first domino to fall in this economic cycle was a spike in prices last year.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• The Oilers and their fans will hope that Draisaitl’s signing will be the first of three contract dominos to fall in their favor.
  — Carol Schram, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024