How to Use monopolize in a Sentence

monopolize

verb

• One group monopolized the camping area, taking almost all of the campsites.
• The company has monopolized the market for computer operating systems.
• He's always monopolizing the conversation.
• Neither team was able to monopolize the lead for long, though.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022
• But the judge ruled that such a short, simple phrase could not be monopolized by any one lyricist.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2023
• Green smoothies are great and all, but no one type of food should monopolize the meaning of healthy eating.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 30 Mar. 2021
• Ingram will have plenty of time to monopolize the ball in Zion Williamson’s rookie year, though.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Drake becomes the second act ever to monopolize the Hot 100's top five in a single week.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2021
• Again, these are all important, but must not be allowed to monopolize the CEO’s time.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• The first half of play had been controlled by the U.S. team, which monopolized possession and had at least two shots on goal to Sweden's zero.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The top five is the same, with No. 1 Connecticut and No. 2 Purdue continuing to monopolize the first-place votes.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
• How to sign up Pig sponsor news:Is Skyline monopolizing the chili game?
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
• All six songs also claim the top six spots on Hot Alternative Songs, the first time in the chart’s three-year history that an artist has monopolized the top six.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
• Free-form conversation rounds out their last ten minutes together, and, though it’s meant to be a back-and-forth, Shara tends to monopolize the talk.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Build rainy-day lanes in the tunnels currently monopolized by the subways (long cars with no music).
  — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• The designation monopolized by Kershaw over the last decade now belongs to the slight-but-brash 25-year-old right-hander born and raised in Kentucky.
  — Dylan Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• Republic also holds the top three for the third time in less than three months, and remains the only label to monopolize the top three since 2003, when Interscope pulled off the feat.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 20 Jan. 2021
• Matt doesn’t apologize to Katie for allowing Sarah to sit down and monopolize his time on a group date she was not invited to.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 19 Jan. 2021
• The true Web3 winners will be the ones that monopolize on blockchain technology with Fun gameplay.
  — Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• With his pledge, the Ducks could monopolize the top defensive end talent in the Pac-12 Conference footprint.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2021
• Attempts to monopolize markets are a key part of the history of media.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Even the giants of the industry, with their vast resources, can't monopolize top talent.
  — Shamaila Mahmood, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• That also ought to prevent the dominant bucks from monopolizing the food source, and encourage more members of a herd to consume the drug.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• On Hot Gospel Songs, the hip-hop superstar actually monopolized the top 11, thanks to every song from the album.
  — Jim Asker, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2019
• One of these might come to monopolize infections in certain parts of the world, another elsewhere.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2022
• If their economies are intertwined, as is often the case, rivals wield trade as a weapon, seeking to monopolize the production of strategic goods and lord it over the other side.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The Gazette's legal team tried unsuccessfully to prove that Hussman wanted to monopolize the market and run the Gazette out of business.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2023
• In the not-too-distant past, TV networks tended to want to monopolize their reporters’ assignment book.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
• The first can allow economic elites to monopolize wealth and power, the second can allow political elites to do the same.
  — James K. Boyce, Scientific American, 28 Nov. 2020
• Raves were pouring in for Jacobs-Jenkins and his peers, who were beginning to monopolize the most prestigious prizes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024