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    Use "domineer" in a sentence

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


    2. To domineer over others


    3. It seems as if we collectively resolved not to let the situation touch us, to live as usual as much as possible and not to let the threat domineer over the sociability


    4. places, to domineer over others, and to lay burdens on the backs of the less


    5. She was a woman who liked to domineer and feel her power, and as she looked at Sara's pale little steadfast face and heard her proud little voice, she quite felt as if her might was being set at naught


    6. Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so


    7. His egotism was of the sort that is most frequently found developed in masculine and especially in military circles, and which had become a part of his life to such a degree that he understood no other choice than to domineer or to humiliate himself; and his egotism was the mainspring even of his private impulses; he liked to usurp the first place over people with whom he put himself on a level


    1. while the Philistines still domineered


    2. It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf


    3. But I domineered over him frightfully, and absolutely went so far as insolence more than once, even against my owti feelings


    1. He's careful, methodical, determined, and yes, a little domineering


    2. Ivy stood beside her with a domineering smile


    3. His first impression of the man was that he seemed to be a weakling, crouching in his domineering wife’s shadow


    4. The last thing she needed was another domineering man in her life! He’d have to find some reasonable way to dissuade her, which would be difficult


    5. Domineering in a Victorian manner, his pronouncements allowed for no questioning


    6. And all those horror stories she told me about giving birth to children – oh, no! If I absolutely had to get married, I’d postpone it as long as possible, by which time I’d have bargaining power and not be subject to the whims of a domineering husband


    7. If truth be told, she was missing him herself, but in front of her domineering mother she couldn’t really show it


    8. From his sensual vampire face, I could see tears of blood rolling down his cheeks and I had the domineering need to wipe them away, console him


    9. This woman’s strong character reminded Roger of the domineering women found in literature


    10. He believed that one of his more important duties was to serve as a buffer between the troops in the field and that combination of an intransigent and abusive Secretary of Defense and an equally domineering and dicta�torial President of the United States

    11. From my viewpoint, she was presumptuous, attention-seeking, domineering, opinionated, and a bit arrogant


    12. He heard footsteps and, by scooting over and arranging his head in such a way, Calvin caught glimpses of familiar faces marching with hands on their heads between forceful Rotham guards who—despite their height disadvantage—looked vicious and domineering


    13. domineering as he had ever been before


    14. Maureen was a very strict domineering type of woman whose children would not put a foot wrong in her company


    15. Tommy and Ann had listened sympathetically to Jo’s tale of woe about her domineering mother and had readily offered to put her up for a couple of days until it was all sorted out


    16. Marti‘s propensity for lubricity gradually gave way to spiteful maliciousness and Can was left seeking female favors elsewhere; there was no sweet talking the domineering Marti Alice Martin, so Can‘s tomcatting was soon of legendary excess and Marti‘s presence at home a convenience effecting the appearance of a solid rural American marriage


    17. that once world domineering Empire Of The Overlords lined


    18. any sort of Saxon protest reply to the domineering interests of the


    19. Your domineering overbearing inter


    20. Modi on stage is a domineering figure with not a trace of tentativeness; Rahul, by contrast, looks like a shy schoolboy pushed into a dramatics class

    21. The choices reflected the limited pool of talent available to him but also Modi’s domineering style of functioning


    22. Beneath her copper eyeglass frames, her green eyes sparkled with a domineering hint of mischief


    23. ‘A married woman might enjoy her domineering role at home,’ thought Roopa, as they came out of the ante-room at length


    24. discuss local arrangements with him, and they said he was domineering towards his staff


    25. When I think of Poseidon and of his hostility towards Ulysses, I think of a god who is obtuse, unfair and domineering


    26. What happens when there is desolation of our inner peace, meekness, and gentleness? That leaves no tranquility, but dumps the litter of domineering attitudes, violence, and conflict into the country


    27. Carrying that further, the garbage in the dumpster is full of behaviors littering the nation with domineering aggression over those they feel superior to


    28. Carrying that further, they utilize harsh, domineering, and violent means to possess the desires of beastly impulses


    29. Their behaviors are harsh and domineering to meek and gentle characteristics


    30. domineering attitude of mind - that is also absurd, for true strength does not so exhibit

    31. This depicts a position a domineering singularity k0 fills in relation to another point serving subordinate singularity k


    32. The absence of a father, the strong, domineering, businesswoman mother and our preoccupation with beauty and femininity in a milieu of giggling, gossiping women was bound to divert my normal sexual orientation


    33. His father was much older than his mother who was a harsh domineering woman


    34. Perhaps, she said, that was due to the fact that my mother was not strong and domineering but a woman who yielded to her fate and needed her son"s support


    35. And I say force, not influence, because Islam is a strong and domineering religion


    36. Her mother, a tall, stout, domineering


    37. With each step in this process, the one who loves continues with the personal growth in their own life and is careful not to be domineering or oppressive, but to act as a catalyst in helping the other seek their goals


    38. The fingers of one of his hands speared through my hair to rest against the back of my neck in a warm clasp that was neither demanding nor domineering, but instead felt calming


    39. His touch was domineering, lustful, and a complete invasion of personal space but I, for lack of a better way of putting it, was his


    40. Evette didn’t protest at Larc’s domineering words or the stated finality that he spoke them with

    41. This was easily the most domineering that I had ever been with her and I could see that she liked it


    42. She swung back around to face me smiling, but I could tell she was a little shocked by my domineering handling of her


    43. They said, "Woe to us-we were indeed domineering


    44. This man ate to ward off his constant frustration at his work and his domineering father


    45. I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but


    46. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering; and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not the chief consideration in the other's thoughts


    47. He’s aggressive, domineering, and part caveman, but he doesn’t have a cruel bone in his body, and he flat-out adores women and children


    48. Franz was less enthusiastic; but the count exercised over him also the ascendency a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering


    49. Let us hasten to say that in private the genial side descended to the level of the other, so that generally the indulgent man disappeared to give place to the brutal husband and domineering father


    50. She would be at her most impatient and domineering













    1. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in


    2. 12 And it Lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the


    3. 12 And it Lords it over the love of parents toward their children for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends reproving them when wicked


    4. 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


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    Synonyms for "domineer"

    domineer tyrannise tyrannize

    "domineer" definitions

    rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner