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

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.

Separated from those causes of extrinsic splendour which domineer over other parts of our island, the opulent landholders freely dispense the wealth of their inheritance with unostentatious liberality. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

And then what right had they to domineer over her, and to send word to her through her husband of their wishes as to her manner of dressing?

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony