How to Use overlord in a Sentence

overlord

noun

• He is the overlord of the underground gambling industry.
• Tech, once the overlord of the stock market, has had a rough 2022.
  — Larry Light, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Dozens of states in Asia and Africa threw off colonial overlords.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• In the real world, the bots aren’t our overlords so much as the enablers of our boredom.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Back in the day, George Clooney played overlord Booker Brooks at the plastic plant.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• And the state’s theocratic overlords don’t seem to care.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 25 Oct. 2019
• The merchant class—the overlords who paid hosiers and croppers and weavers for the work—began looking for ways to shrink their costs.
  — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The merchant class—the overlords who paid hosiers and croppers and weavers for the work—began looking for ways to shrink their costs.
  — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2017
• To be sure, Tay and Zo are not our future robot overlords.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 25 June 2018
• Charlene stuck to the gag order from her overlords in Arkansas and didn’t go on the record.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020
• Fans of the cartoon, which aired in the early-to-mid ’00s, already knew that his mission from Irken overlords The Almighty Tallest was a joke.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 July 2019
• One thing is for sure, though: Totoro could definitely be the new overlord of all the Porgs on Ahch-To.
  — Vulture, 11 Nov. 2022
• And the Midwest bows down to its Ohio college football overlords.
  — cleveland, 9 Dec. 2019
• The Monster of Wall Street, a four episode documentary about the Ponzi scheme overlord.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
• Tomlin and Ervin Santana swiftly traded zeroes after the top of the first and pleased the league's pace-of-play overlords.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 12 May 2017
• In her place, another A.I. overlord is headed to the house; if my spelling is right, this one’s name is… Jankie?
  — Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 12 Sep. 2024
• Hyundai wants to bring us one step closer to our robot overlord future.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2021
• Compared with human overlords, the dogs would treat us pretty well.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• Following the presale round, the live-event overlords canceled the public on-sale.
  — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2023
• When our robot overlords take control, the Ioniq will be ready.
  — Car and Driver, 12 Mar. 2018
• The Wagyu hanger steak — rib-eye meets filet —stood tall, but the overlord at our table was the dry-aged, bone-in Holstein strip loin from Flannery Beef.
  — Ken Van Vechten, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• But the best dramatic tension comes off track, as the bigger foes for Shelby and Miles are their Ford overlords.
  — Brian Truitt,, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
• In it, the film’s hero, Jonathan E., is a star athlete who’s willing to risk his own life to avoid being a pawn for his corporate overlords.
  — Matthew Jordan, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
• Tensions rose between von Braun and his S.S. overlords.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• My fears are somewhat different than some of the people who are worried about AI overlords and things like that.
  — Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
• In first half of the 20th century Japan was Korea’s colonial overlord.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• That appears to be the customary amount under our new V.A.R. overlords.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• Clothing overlord Kanye West has made his own bid to win January with a new girlfriend.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2022
• But our Seattle e-commerce overlords have trained us to expect it in mid-July.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 3 July 2018
• Well, the corporate overlords have definitely sent a few emails out about don’t spoil things.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024