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

And now she wants to give herself fine lady airs, and to domineer over us!

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Perhaps they'd domineer less if we left 'em take their own grainy ways.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

Even in the most magnificent of Beethoven's vocal works there exists a certain roughness; the words domineer over the melody, or the latter over the poem.

From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Elliott Graeme

A country wedding and Whitsun-ale are the two main places he domineers in, where he goes for a musician, and overlooks the bag-pipe.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

And it comprises the whole reality as well as the human activity which domineers it.

From Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various

"He is deemed happy in the market-place, But when he gets him home, thrice miserable, His wife rules all, quarrels, and domineers."

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

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 Richard Jefferies

A pure idea, without a material hand or weapon, domineers over the greatest empire under the sun, in spite of the whole power of that empire armed to crush it.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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

And till midday reason domineered; while he abode the slack, while he battled for shore, while he mended and launched, while the cry 'Diadyomene!

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

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

Yeong-hye is a young married woman in Seoul whose domineering husband prizes her for her unchallenging plainness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

“He’s aware of his position in the world. He lives by himself and he’s gay and he’s been unhappy in love. He’s inquisitive and he’s domineering — I can sort of relate to that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

It is as domineering as the eye of the captain.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman