domineer

Example Sentences

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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

Nor, though the new settlers might domineer, was their domination likely to be more oppressive and insolent than that of the native chief, with his gallowglasses and his coyne and livery.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

He found that he could not domineer in the present instance.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen

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 Bradlaugh, Charles