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

The cardinal, accustomed to domineer over even such old noble families as the Montmorencies, would do neither, and attempted to ride defiantly into the city.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him to much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier

Still I do feel a little sorry at the thought of giving him a chance to domineer over those poor little orphans.”

From Mildred's New Daughter by Martha Finley

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

There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another’s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston

Bessie—well, this little fair-haired "find" says all sorts of pretty, indiscreet things, interrupts tête-à-têtes, intrudes upon conferences, artlessly domineers over everybody, closing each day's performances by going to sleep upon the arm of Sir Donald.

From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee

A deed magnanimous, a noble thought   Are as the music singing thro' the years   When surly Time the tyrant domineers Against the lute whereoutof it was wrought.

From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Henry Baerlein

It was the galloping of horse—the beat of hoofs, individualized presently to the ear—with that thunderous, swift, impetuous advance that so domineers over the imagination, quickens the pulse, shakes the courage.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

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

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

In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rowena criticized, satirized and domineered over her, all in the name of friendship.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Pauline Lester

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

The domineering Sarastro, an all-powerful priest, bellows spiritual profundities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

General Dreedle’s great, red domineering face was gnarled with perplexity and oaken with awesome resolution.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller