domineer

He could dominate and domineer musicians in a recording studio, once upon a time, but he couldn’t charm 12 people on a 2007 jury into believing his story.

From Time ● Mar. 21, 2013

It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have no right to domineer as tyrants, and then fall into the most abject of slaves.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh

It does not domineer over the President himself, but it makes the Secretaries its humble servants.

From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

It was amusing to see her domineer over the doctor, trained nurse, and landlady, and I soon learned to whom to make my pleas for extra liberty or special privileges.

From The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

A country wedding and Whitson-ale are the two main places he domineers in, where he goes for a musician, and overlooks the bag-pipe.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

A deed magnanimous, a noble thought   Are as the music singing thro' the years   When surly Time the tyrant domineers Against the lute whereoutof it was wrought.

From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Henry Baerlein

The picturesque, in short, domineers over English tragedy; the sculpturesque, or the statuesque, over the Grecian.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg

From this scene he had learned an alarming lesson: that the flesh domineers the soul and refuses to admit any schism.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace

He domineers over freshmen when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of cues and cees, and some broken Latin which he has learnt at his bin.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

Detractors say he sometimes domineered those around him, allowed his temper to erupt and, according to another former official, “has an ego the size of the Empire State Building.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021

Irish-born actress Maureen O’Hara was one of the biggest stars in films of the 1940s and ’50s, an era when it was common for leading ladies to be domineered by male heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2015

Many a U. S. newsorgan was snipped or censored in Cuba while "Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him.

From Time Magazine Archive

And no justice could be obtained at Sparta against the bad conduct of the harmosts who now domineered in every city.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

Ericka at first takes only a nominally enthusiastic attitude toward vying for the crown, and she’s not particularly antipathetic to Paulina either—at least until she witnesses Paulina’s cruel and domineering behavior toward her fellow students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Born in 1929 to a wealthy and conservative family -- by her account with a domineering mother and philandering father -- Kusama began producing her unique signature art aged 10.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Laurie Metcalf plays Linda, the siblings’ domineering mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

In fact he is the opposite — a domineering strongman who seeks to bully everyone around him into compliance.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

In 1912, at nineteen, he’d packed a bag, like Huck Finn lighting out for the Territory, and gone to live with his uncle, a domineering cattleman named William K. Hale, in Fairfax.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann