overbearing

Example Sentences

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In “The Great Santini,” he was a Marine fighter pilot who was as overbearing and explosive with his family as with the men under his command.

From Los Angeles Times

"There's still time and maybe the English dominance won't be that overbearing."

From BBC

Many people – from Brussels to Berlin to Paris – will have found his speech to be insulting, overbearing and inaccurate.

From BBC

Bruccoleri adds that the biggest journey her character goes on in the show is trying to find a way to remove herself emotionally from her overbearing mother.

From BBC

Everyone who met him noticed his thick football neck and his great huge head and his overbearing manner, which was interpreted as both admirably direct and a mask.

From Literature