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

Nor, though the new settlers might domineer, was their domination likely to be more oppressive and insolent than that of the native chief, with his gallowglasses and his coyne and livery.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

Accustomed as she was to domineer over the seemingly weak-willed man, there had been times, within her memory, when he had thrown off her rule and asserted himself to a degree that terrified her.

From Jessica, the Heiress by Raymond, Evelyn

At first she had merely liked to patronize the young college boy; rather to domineer over him, looking upon him as a child in comparison with herself.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry