lord it over

Example Sentences

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“In a democracy, the people are in charge. Elected representatives like me and my parliamentary colleagues do not lord it over you. We are your servants.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2022

We're used to seeing her sort of lord it over her environment.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2022

First, inherited from “Toy Story 2,” is the notion of toys becoming vintage items, and second is the discomforting presence of über-toys, who lord it over the meeker types and forbid them basic liberties.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2019

Mississippians lord it over their Bama cousins because “Absalom, Absalom!” put William Faulkner on a lonely pinnacle no other Southern writer can scale.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2018

All the sixth graders have to sit in the front of the bus, while all the eighth graders lord it over everyone else in the back.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh