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
  • Both are domineering in the air and fierce in the tackle.
    — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Along the way, Welts became keenly aware of Stern’s domineering ways.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Barnes struggled to assert that domineering physique of his against the colossal Van Dijk.
    — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • La Vecchia Signora were at their domineering best for the first time in what feels like forever.
    — SI.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • One great way was to remind them of your shared hate for those stuffy, domineering, repressed and repressive Englishmen.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 8 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
  • We were concerned that Sharon was domineering, but Catherine professed to be happy.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • We were concerned that Sharon was domineering, but Catherine professed to be happy.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • We were concerned that Sharon was domineering, but Catherine professed to be happy.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • These two influences—the domineering father and the Catholic Church—helped shape Kennedy’s tough liberalism.
    — Richard D. Kahlenberg, New Republic, 1 Nov. 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
  • A frantic Mohammad Shehata overdoes it a bit as the domineering Pozzo, who wanders through in the middle of both acts.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Critics protested that a story about outsiders finding their voice had been revised to suggest outsiders and marginalized kids have become a domineering force that needs to be stopped at any cost.
    — Graeme McMillan, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Soyuncu was assertive and domineering, keeping Roberto Firmino quiet throughout the game - which is no small task.
    — SI.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • The developments have added to fears about China’s domineering presence in the Pacific.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Kaleidoscope: Toby Jones stars as a mild-mannered man just released from prison who can't escape his domineering mother.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • 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
  • There’s also his father, played as an abusive, domineering patriarch by Bruce Dern.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 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
  • Fiery orange azaleas shout out among the domineering rhododendrons.
    — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • At 17, Adua flees Somalia – and her domineering father – chasing promises of film stardom.
    — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 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

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