lord it over

Example Sentences

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And USC continues to lord it over a big chunk of the city.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 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

Social media has generated new vistas for this compulsion to compare and lord it over others.

From New York Times • May 4, 2018

Van Rensburg was not a clever fellow, and while he would lord it over us at the quarry, we could outwit him in court.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela