How to Use domineer in a Sentence

domineer

verb
  • The man is strong, domineering, and the lover of one of them.
    — Dinitia Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • Along the way, Welts became keenly aware of Stern’s domineering ways.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Bannon was brilliant, cunning and domineering, a macho rah-rah guy when pleased and a volcano when angry.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 19 Feb. 2017
  • So, then, how does a device like an Alexa prevent us from being domineering or commanding?
    — Dorothy R. Santos, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Barnes struggled to assert that domineering physique of his against the colossal Van Dijk.
    — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Fiery orange azaleas shout out among the domineering rhododendrons.
    — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • La Vecchia Signora were at their domineering best for the first time in what feels like forever.
    — SI.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Most of the people sharing photos of domineering goats and marauding boars are not expressing a latent death wish.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • There’s also his father, played as an abusive, domineering patriarch by Bruce Dern.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Disabling this decision-making is what domineering people do.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Soyuncu was assertive and domineering, keeping Roberto Firmino quiet throughout the game - which is no small task.
    — SI.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • These two influences—the domineering father and the Catholic Church—helped shape Kennedy’s tough liberalism.
    — Richard D. Kahlenberg, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The developments have added to fears about China’s domineering presence in the Pacific.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Disabling this decision-making ability is what domineering people do.
    — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
  • There is also rebellion in the way Moll cultivates this new romance, aimed at her domineering mother (Geraldine James).
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • Neither the protesters nor the Hong Kong government, which is largely controlled by a domineering Beijing, seem willing to cede any ground.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • This version of the Cinderella story sets the gentle, patient heroine against the comic grotesqueries of her domineering stepmother and twit-like stepsisters.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2018
  • At 17, Adua flees Somalia – and her domineering father – chasing promises of film stardom.
    — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2017
  • One such character, the domineering Martha Farnsworth, inspired her to seek out a new collaborator in Nicole Kidman.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 21 June 2017
  • And last night, Stormy showed us how, by demonstrating what resistance to Trump’s domineering egotism might look like (Congress would do well to emulate Stormy).
    — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The domineering forward will be delighted to have got the final chapter of his career off to a flying start, and will be eager to play a pivotal role in his side's push for the MLS title.
    — SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Once again, Miss Cooper charitably intervenes — but will kindness prove enough to free the faux Major and the downtrodden Sybil from her domineering mother?
    — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • Grace Hemingway is often seen as domineering and emasculating; Ernest claimed to hate her for her sanctimonious condemnation of his early fiction, and blamed her for his father’s suicide.
    — Elaine Showalter, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • The director focuses instead on racking up the tension and slowly unfolding new layers of John and Evelyn’s relationship, where the volatile John is the domineering force.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 May 2017
  • Not only do the women in the factory perform achingly repetitive movements all day, their slave driver of a supervisor (a domineering Francisco Arcila) barks orders at them to work faster, without breaks.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
  • With a booming, resonant voice, menacing glare and large, intimidating posture, Rothman is domineering at first, yet transforms to reveal his sweet, romantic side after meeting Fiona.
    — Rebecca Bogdanovic, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The figure of Cormery’s domineering grandmother, taking a rawhide switch to the troublemaking boy or up to her elbow in a toilet recovering a two-franc piece, is a synecdoche for the country’s intransigence and desperation.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Prunella Scales, the British actress who became a household name playing the long-suffering and domineering Sybil Fawlty on the Britcom Fawlty Towers, has died.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • My Life as a Rat is one of those gems, with Violet the vehicle for several explorations, including the ways vulnerable girls and young women can fall prey to domineering men and how loyalty to family can lead to betrayal of the self.
    — Dallas News, 1 July 2019
  • Where Nawaz Sharif, whose second term was cut short by a military coup in 1998, has always been feuding with the country’s domineering military establishment, Shehbaz Sharif is considered to have better relations with the generals.
    — Mehreen Zahra-Malik, New York Times, 29 July 2017

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