How to Use domineering in a Sentence

domineering

adjective
  • But the scars from the abrupt change may feed distrust in his domineering style.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Joseph has a cruel and domineering air about him.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Team Gates planned to use that same domineering force of will to beat back government lawyers.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2020
  • His somewhat domineering style that no longer dovetailed with a changing world?
    — Amy X. Wang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Second, silent but domineering in all of this, is the Taliban.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
  • On a host of fronts, China’s domineering leader seems to be fighting fires.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Hoover’s male characters tend to be domineering, in a way that is often supposed to be part of their appeal.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
  • This was the side of Bryant that his domineering ways sometimes overshadowed.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 26 Jan. 2020
  • The school was founded by the girls’ deceased mother, whose domineering presence still seems to hover in the air.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Kyle was under the sway of his jealous, domineering friend Hossein.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • As a young man, he was raised by his domineering father (Charles Dance), who sits with him and teaches him about the sciences.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Women all over the country have been in situations with domineering, brutish men and had to remain silent about it to keep food on the table.
    — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • And Trump’s domineering, loutish approach to women spoke to its adherents in a way that few, if any, of his rivals could match.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • The elder son, Caleb, is eager to mold himself in his domineering father’s image.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • Gein’s mother was cruel and domineering.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Wayne is rather meek and mild, but his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is very domineering.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
  • In the past week, three new documentaries have been released that portray Jamie as self-serving and domineering.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • At age 16, Lawless quit school to marry her boyfriend, who became domineering and abusive.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • With Dodgers The changes have had a dramatic impact on his body, which has always been a domineering presence on the mound.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The purpose of all these reforms was to wrest power from the grip of a domineering economic elite and place it in the hands of regular citizens.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • McGee, who made similar claims about harsh and domineering rules, said women who live with the singer are required to call him Daddy.
    — NBC News, 8 May 2018
  • Arenberg will play the sisters’ domineering father.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 May 2026
  • The odds are still stacked against them, given Erdogan’s domineering hold of the levers of power and influence over the media.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • This is the rare movie adaptation that does cover the second half of the book, and our first glimpse of Heathcliff is as the domineering terror of his later years.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Lawrence came to the conclusion that Mabel, the domineering American woman, was the root of all evil.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The play is about boys sent to live with their domineering grandma (played by Mason) in 1940s Brooklyn.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The twins have their own dynamic, with Lucas more domineering of his brother and less trustful of his mother, whom Elias just wants to love — and be loved by.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
  • August is a violent, domineering, bullying boss who starves and beats the animals in his circus and doesn’t treat his human workers much better.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
  • Every room in the palace from the great hall and the dining room to the walk-in fridge is large, domineering, and beautiful, creating a fantastical atmosphere.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Jax’s domineering rule is greasing the pot for the WWE women’s champion to get her comeuppance.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024

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