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

Still I do feel a little sorry at the thought of giving him a chance to domineer over those poor little orphans.”

From Mildred's New Daughter by Finley, Martha

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 Magee, Knox

The lawless characters within it, who might have been restrained by a firm and vigorous hand, now assert themselves, and the large clans with their powerful followings domineer and oppress the weaker ones.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)

Reason no longer domineers; but still doth speak.

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

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 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

A deed magnanimous, a noble thought   Are as the music singing thro' the years   When surly Time the tyrant domineers Against the lute whereoutof it was wrought.

From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Baerlein, Henry

I listened to it sitting in the hop-oast, whose tower, like a castle turret, overlooks and domineers the yard.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

Bessie—well, this little fair-haired "find" says all sorts of pretty, indiscreet things, interrupts tête-à-têtes, intrudes upon conferences, artlessly domineers over everybody, closing each day's performances by going to sleep upon the arm of Sir Donald.

From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Lee, Carson Jay

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 Lester, Pauline

In a nonlinear fashion, the novel follows a domineering teacher’s relationship with her students against the backdrop of fascism’s rise in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Laurie Metcalf plays Linda, the siblings’ domineering mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

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

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

In a profile of Shapiro for The Atlantic, Alberta said the governor “moved between outrage and exasperation” as Alberta shared Harris’ characterizations of Shapiro as overconfident and domineering.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

Shin remembers him being just as cold, distant, and domineering as the others.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden