lord it over

Example Sentences

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We're used to seeing her sort of lord it over her environment.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2022

The upper-crust denizens of Piltover control the so-called “hextech” and lord it over those scrounging in the depths of the city of Zaun.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2021

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

“He didn’t lord it over her but sat with her,” she says.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2017

All the sixth graders have to sit in the front of the bus, while all the eighth graders lord it over everyone else in the back.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh