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
• 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
• The festival was the brainchild of Robert Fitzpatrick, a restlessly domineering visionary and brilliant fundraiser who was president of CalArts.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024