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

At first she had merely liked to patronize the young college boy; rather to domineer over him, looking upon him as a child in comparison with herself.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

Accustomed as she was to domineer over the seemingly weak-willed man, there had been times, within her memory, when he had thrown off her rule and asserted himself to a degree that terrified her.

From Jessica, the Heiress by Evelyn Raymond

He never permitted anyone to domineer over him, neither the Queen, nor favourites, nor ministers, nor priests.

From Count Br?hl by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski

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

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

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

Death, indeed, domineers over everything but the forms of the Exchequer.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But he was a man of might, and his opinion had domineered over theirs.

From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

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

The domineering Sarastro, an all-powerful priest, bellows spiritual profundities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 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

But in the mind of the FBI’s domineering director, J. Edgar Hoover, they were rivals.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield