Sample sentences for DOMINEERING

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Definition

tending to exercise control over others in an autocratic manner

Her mother is opinionated and domineering.

a domineering personality
Martin was so quietly domineering, so stubbornly persistent—and always so plausible—oh, so plausible
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Haldeman -- Dust
I should think you could be trained into a very good husband—you know, not one of the domineering kind, but one who considered his wife was just as much an individual as himself and just as much a free agent.
Jack London -- Adventure
...a handsome face with fierce, domineering eyes...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Valley of Fear
...the count exercised over him also the ascendancy a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but .... there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
He began speaking in a loud, rather domineering voice.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
'I shall, soon enough, be put out, though, if anybody tries to domineer it over me: and so I give you notice, master.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
When he came into our alley, he held his head high and spoke in domineering tones.
Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
She dreaded hearing him speak, because now there was a new tone in his voice: familiar, half-insolent, domineering.
Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
Aziz was friendly and domineering.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Then there's the domineering Kennedy Airport air traffic controllers ordering the planes around.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
She was uninterested in towering, square-jawed men with huge domineering faces, who were to be bred like horses with horse-like women.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
They were both embarrassed, and to relieve her feeling she became harsh and domineering.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
All day he lay there listening to the silence of huddled trees with only a domineering black hen for company.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
They say that Glorvina gives herself airs and that Peggy herself is ill tolerably domineering.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
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.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

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