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How to use the word domino in a Sentence?

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It's all so intricately connected, whether you're eating the food that is directly pollinated or you're eating something that depends on that pollinator, it's a domino effect.

Ron Magill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was like a domino effect, it was beautiful.

Cassandra Ridder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to go to Le Mans. But I think so much hinges on the schedule being released to understand if I can, i know that there’s interest. I certainly have a ton of interest to do it. We’re just waiting for that first domino to fall.

Jimmie Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Pre-COVID years, we talked about famine, but it was relatively rare, today, we have this domino effect of climate and COVID and cost and conflict, and they're all beating up on each other.

Barron Segar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today, I am really proud to say I had an abortion, i'm proud to know that when I spoke out about it publicly for the first time it created a domino effect where other people told me their stories for the first time. I am honored to hold those stories for others.

Arielle Cohen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We haven't seen him recover ever since that first domino in Afghanistan.

Mike Noble

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If dominoes lined up in a formation metaphorically represents how stress works, what are you doing to ensure your last domino never falls?

Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
2 years ago

One domino fell and then everybody just decided school is about to come in session, the Delta variant is spreading like wildfire, hospitalizations are up, ICU capacity is down... it's time for the courts to weigh in on this issue.

Christian Menefee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Adopting a law that legalizes abortion in a Catholic country as big as Argentina will energize the struggle to ensure women’s rights in Latin America, although there will certainly be resistance, I think it’s fair to predict that, as it occurred when Argentina legalized same sex marriage in 2010, this new law could have a domino effect in the region.

Juan Pappier

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Domino's is now pulling the plug on its international operations after admitting defeat, this is the sensible thing to do. Management should be applauded for making the decision to pull out rather than digging themselves a bigger hole.

Russ Mould

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are trying to get ahead of it, we think there is a chance this can domino.

Stuart Saulters

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

He serves at the President's pleasure, so The President can fire The President. I sincerely hope that he doesn't. People worry about about the domino — if Attorney General Sessions goes, who's next ? Is it Rod Rosenstein ? Obviously, the President's comments yesterday, The President just keeps going further and further, attorney General Sessions did the right thing to recuse Attorney General Sessions. And for The President to say otherwise just is simply wrong. So I hope that The President stops trying to undermine the credibility of the Department of Justice, and let Attorney General Sessions serve.

Jeff Flake

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This was a particularly odd, rare occasion where (there was) call after call for man down, obviously with symptoms of some kind of overdose, and at the time of getting that patient packaged and transported to the hospital, we’d see another immediately fall down, right there, at that point, we’d go help that patient, and while helping that patient, another person went down. So it became a domino effect.

Ernest Jones

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don't think there is a domino effect if some others were to merge or acquire large scale, that our hands would be forced in any way.

Harry Kirsch

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

But I’ve never understood why they allowed Domino’s Pizza and others outside the luxury world to logo their watches.

Paul Altieri

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We know that delivery is all about convenience, and Domino's Hotspots are ... all about flexible delivery options.

Russell Weiner

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

( Tyler Marinelli) FIRST-EVER HOMELESS SHELTER GIRL SCOUT TROOP SELLS 6,000 BOXES OF COOKIES, SURPASSING GOAL I would eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and however much of it I wanted. I'm talking two Domino's pizzas in one sitting, i told Tyler Marinelli if I could eat something I truly enjoy every single day, that it wouldn't be a diet as much as it was a lifestyle, and that's exactly what I was looking for.

Tyler Marinelli

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was crazy the way everything kind of fell into place; it was a domino effect, he fit perfectly with our family; it was like he was always there.

Annie Lykins

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We are concerned that the above-mentioned bills are incompatible with international human rights law and would unduly restrict the possibility for individuals to freely exercise their rights to freedom of opinion and expression, and peaceful assembly, if adopted, the pending bills could have a domino effect on other states, leading to a general crackdown on protests in the United States.

Lee Rowland

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If Jon Ossoff comes in first place in the ruby-red district of Georgia's sixth ... it will make clear that this is the first domino to fall, we have Tom Perriello running in Virginia in June in a very competitive primary, we have Rob Quist running in a competitive special election in Montana.

Adam Green

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It’s so disheartening. It’s such a domino effect. It’s going to affect so many people in the community. It’s going to effect the officer, the officer’s family ..Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved.

Charleston President Treva Zoll

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It cannot be ruled out that Brexit leads to a domino effect in Eastern Europe.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We’ve discovered that Domino’s headquarters was intensely involved in store operations and even caused many of these violations.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Kissinger was one of those people during the Vietnam era who talked about the domino theory. Not everybody remembers that. You do. I do. The domino theory, you know, if Vietnam goes, China, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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