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

This time it was a bracelet, and Mrs. Brill clasped and unclasped it ecstatically, feeling that she had at least one daughter who loved her and did not domineer.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him to much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain

She's in love with being married, and having a country house of her own, and a husband to domineer over.

From Leonore Stubbs by Walford, L. B.