How to Use domineering in a Sentence

domineering

adjective
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  • But the scars from the abrupt change may feed distrust in his domineering style.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Second, silent but domineering in all of this, is the Taliban.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Team Gates planned to use that same domineering force of will to beat back government lawyers.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2020
  • 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 school was founded by the girls’ deceased mother, whose domineering presence still seems to hover in the air.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Bluey can be domineering; Bingo gets lost in her own world.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 May 2021
  • His escapes to the movies and his long private nights away from the St. Louis house are a mystery to his prying, domineering mother but not to himself.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This was the side of Bryant that his domineering ways sometimes overshadowed.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 26 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • On a host of fronts, China’s domineering leader seems to be fighting fires.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Buccaneers had a domineering offensive line and arguably the best receivers in the NFL.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wayne is rather meek and mild, but his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is very domineering.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Kyle was under the sway of his jealous, domineering friend Hossein.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Gypsy is the story of the ultimate stage mom, (based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee and her years in vaudeville with a domineering stage mother).
    — Geauga Lyric Theater Guild, cleveland.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Frustration with the mandates of Brussels and the domineering role played by Germany abounds in many corners of Europe.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
  • Greenberg also told the Press of Atlantic City that Gatier had said her ex-boyfriend was highly domineering.
    — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • This is the sublime, but in Aldred’s hands its not a domineering sublimity that seeks to own the landscape, to assert the ubiquity of the human soul.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
  • Lue’s 23 years in the NBA have taught him that a single, domineering personality can lead the locker room to tune out the message, no matter how loud.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • His somewhat domineering style that no longer dovetailed with a changing world?
    — Amy X. Wang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
  • To better fit the role of a domineering boss, Streep somtimes laced her real-life interactions with Blunt and Hathaway with ice.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 14 June 2021
  • My dad is and has always been controlling and domineering.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
  • At age 16, Lawless quit school to marry her boyfriend, who became domineering and abusive.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In the past week, three new documentaries have been released that portray Jamie as self-serving and domineering.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Daisy’s always been treated as less-than by her domineering boss Mrs. Koehl (Wheeler-Nicholson).
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • Amid all the juicy reality TV drama, this kernel of truth pops and sticks the landing: When the men get most out of control, their domineering, damaging behavior is plain to the women and everyone watching at home.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024

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