Sample Sentences fordomineering (auto-selected)
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He referred to Jews as "an elite people, sure of itself, domineering," and the rupture was complete.† (source)
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When he came into our alley, he held his head high and spoke in domineering tones.† (source)
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Even now, as he sits there fiddling with some kind of plastic box, he's easily ignored in the presence of his large and domineering companions.† (source)
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Emma Adler's mother was Emma Walthour Morel, a large and domineering woman known around town as "Big Emma."† (source)
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All day he lay there listening to the silence of huddled trees with only a domineering black hen for company.† (source)
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— proud and very domineering, the sort of witch who would have been mortified to produce a Squib—† (source)
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I had very low self-esteem as a child, which I kept with me for many, many years; and even now I don't want to be around anyone who is domineering or pushing me around because it makes me nervous.† (source)
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'I shall, soon enough, be put out, though, if anybody tries to domineer it over me: and so I give you notice, master.† (source)
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near, Needly, needs, on your own compulsion, Nesh, soft, tender, Nigh-hand, nearly, Nill, will not, Nilt, will not, Nis, ne is, is not, Nist, ne wist, knew not, Noblesse, nobleness, Nobley, nobility, splendour, Noised, reported, Nold, would not, Noseling, on his nose, Not for then, nevertheless, Notoyrly, notoriously, Noyous, hurtful, Obeissance, obedience, Or, before, Orgule, haughtiness, Orgulist, haughtiest, Orgulite, pride, arrogance, Orgulous, proud, Other, or, Ouches, jewels, Ought, owned, Outcept, except, Outher, or, Out-taken, except, Over-evening, last night, Overget, overtake, Overhylled, covered, Over-led, domineered over, Overlong, the length of, Overslip, pass, Overthwart, adj.† (source)
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So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbors as though they were dependents and buffoons.† (source)
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In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.† (source)
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She was getting impatient; the whole of her being was setting positively, undeniably, domineeringly brushing aside all this unnecessary trifling (Peter Walsh and his affairs) upon that subject which engaged her attention, and not merely her attention, but that fibre which was the ramrod of her soul, that essential part of her without which Millicent Bruton would not have been Millicent Bruton; that project for emigrating young people of both sexes born of respectable parents and setting them up with a fair prospect of doing well in Canada.† (source)
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Trying not to be intimidated by the fierce domineering look he got from her, he ordered the soldiers to inspect the ranch.† (source)
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It pleased me to domineer over her, and she generally submitted to my tyranny rather than risk a hand-to-hand encounter.† (source)
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In the Middle Ages, testamentary power had, so to speak, no limits: amongst the French at the present day, a man cannot distribute his fortune amongst his children without the interference of the State; after having domineered over a whole life, the law insists upon regulating the very last act of it.† (source)
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As the most distinguished partisans of the other side of the question are unable to surmount the obstacles which exclude them from power, they require some means of establishing themselves upon their own basis, and of opposing the moral authority of the minority to the physical power which domineers over it.† (source)
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