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

Mr. Jerningham would domineer over him, and Æolus, should the violent god be pleased to send for him, would at once annihilate him.

From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope

So could I imagine the condemned souls revel and domineer when a Prince of Darkness hath been reduced to a lower level.

From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee

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

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

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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 Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

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

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

Reason no longer domineers; but still doth speak.

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

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

The document was an announcement of the freedom of the Greek cities over which Macedonia had domineered; and the people, finding that Flaminius had made them free, resolved on making him welcome.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

“He’s aware of his position in the world. He lives by himself and he’s gay and he’s been unhappy in love. He’s inquisitive and he’s domineering — I can sort of relate to that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

But Roslyn Ruff, a talented actor who speaks the verse with commendable clarity, fails to imbue the character with the necessary domineering imperiousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

"He was just so domineering and you just couldn't talk back to him," she added.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez