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

The cardinal, accustomed to domineer over even such old noble families as the Montmorencies, would do neither, and attempted to ride defiantly into the city.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

This is a secret neat as that of the Sphinx: to "go softly" among events, yet domineer them.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

Reason no longer domineers; but still doth speak.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

His giving a hundred a year to Bell won't make you comfortable in this house if he still domineers over you.

From The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope

He runs the whole estate and domineers over her, and she don't dast to say her soul's her own.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day

So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbors as though they were dependents and buffoons.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another’s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston

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

Rowena criticized, satirized and domineered over her, all in the name of friendship.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Pauline Lester

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

“Harry’s psychic debt to Janet,” Mr. Jelly-Schapiro writes, “quickly grew deep,” and soon Jay Kennedy—a name the man had adopted years earlier, after leaving the Communist Party—became Belafonte’s domineering manager.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Laurie Metcalf plays Linda, the siblings’ domineering mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

The actor was shown to no less domineering effect in The Great Santini, playing a frustrated Marine pilot who hectors and browbeats his teenage children.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Someone less original than Clara would have tired of her sister-in-law’s excessive pampering and constant worry, or have succumbed to her domineering and meticulous nature.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende