How to Use domino effect in a Sentence

domino effect

noun
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  • The response was the result of a bit of a domino effect.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al.com, 23 July 2019
  • The domino effect is that Sven, who is running the show VFX-wise, will have to adapt.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
  • There will be a domino effect to the format changes, too.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2019
  • His movement and hold-up play might have a domino effect on the rest of the attack.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 June 2019
  • The domino effect that led to the U.K.'s current pain started with a cold spell.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Even better, Faulk’s move to end has a domino effect down the line.
    — Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This is big stuff and marks the beginning of a domino effect of change in your life.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 30 Apr. 2023
  • This helps triggers the domino effect and the whole thing starts over for a few seconds.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 6 June 2024
  • That’s no longer the case for most, and the domino effect has increased activism.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The value of the player, given a lot of the stuff that goes on in the domino effect, is always there.
    — SI.com, 31 July 2019
  • The Green Rush domino effect continues to be felt on the East Coast.
    — Iris Dorbian, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • So the Chiefs traded Smith to the Redskins, setting off a domino effect across the league.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The obstruction of the canal could set off a domino effect of delays.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2021
  • A lot went wrong with the Mets in 2023, but the pitching created a domino effect.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That has a domino effect on the ER, where waits grow longer and staff have had to find new ways to assess patients.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • His injury will have a domino effect at the Triple-A level.
    — Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
  • Turnover has a domino effect and can harm morale among even the most tenured employees.
    — Ed Beltran, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And so, that there could be a domino effect of despair that would lead more people to come to the US border.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The results, published in Science, show a domino effect that leaves lions with the short end of the stick.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Then, in a domino effect, soldiers staged coups in those three countries over the past three years and cut ties with France.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Which will then knock over an old Diet Coke can that’s been left there for a few days, and it’s a domino effect from there.
    — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2020
  • There’s a domino effect that starts even sooner than that.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • But poor weather could have a domino effect next week if storms hit big hubs.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The success of that event set off a domino effect of booming content on the platform.
    — Jordan Ligons, Essence, 26 June 2022
  • This note set off a domino effect of concerns about Beth and Rip’s futures.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Call it a domino effect: The entire defense looked lost.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In the past year, there has been a domino effect of area health care providers increasing the minimum wage.
    — Ginger Christ, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2019
  • There's also a domino effect as no team wants to have empty spots when the music stops.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • There are a lot of things that are going on in our society that don’t need to be going on, particularly the obesity epidemic and all the things that are domino effects from that.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Due to the domino effect of injuries, Chastain needed Boman to move from her role as a creative central/attacking midfielder to the more nitty gritty defensive mid spot.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024

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