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

They have no right to domineer as tyrants, and then fall into the most abject of slaves.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh

He never permitted anyone to domineer over him, neither the Queen, nor favourites, nor ministers, nor priests.

From Count Br?hl by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski

And now she wants to give herself fine lady airs, and to domineer over us!

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

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

He domineers over freshmen when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of cues and cees, and some broken Latin which he has learnt at his bin.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

"He is deemed happy in the market-place, But when he gets him home, thrice miserable, His wife rules all, quarrels, and domineers."

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

But Miss Arkwright's nurse Jane domineers into the peaceful circle with a clairvoyance that Miss Gwendolen is giving trouble, and bears her away rebellious.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

And it comprises the whole reality as well as the human activity which domineers it.

From Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various

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

I, too, wished for a G. F. who domineered a maiden aunt.

From Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason

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

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

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

The actor was shown to no less domineering effect in The Great Santini, playing a frustrated Marine pilot who hectors and browbeats his teenage children.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

At the time, the idea of crossing into the domineering English mainstream was often just a one-way deal, Times music columnist Agustin Gurza argued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

He began speaking in a loud, rather domineering voice.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier