200 examples of domineering in sentences

She had come in on her father's arm, closely followed by the erect figure of her domineering mother.

We know his impulsiveness, his naïveté, his heady fits of wild passion, his spacious curiosity and quick grasp of detail, his portentous lack of humour and delicacy, his childish vanity and domineering will.

Caesar would not endure the domineering ways of his mother-in-law, and, choosing to appear to be at odds with her rather than with Antonius, sent back her daughter, whom he declared on oath to be still a virgin.

For a long time he watched her, marveling; and when finally he spoke, his sharp, domineering voice was lowered, almost gentle.

She was, in fact, very angry with Will by this time, and what she called his meddlesome, domineering airs, and quite determined to let him know at the very first opportunity that she was not in the least to be influenced by his opinions.

These bears are pitifully wary as compared with their former bold and domineering attitude; they would gladly keep out of harm's way if only they might be allowed to do so.

"She was very melancholy at first," said Baard, "and I had nothing to say; and then she got into bustling, domineering ways, and I had nothing to say to that.

2. Young children, in riding on horseback, are rather apt to acquire, rapidly, the habit of domineering over animals.

This is sure to produce an insolent and domineering manner towards you.

He builded Selwoodea handsome Tudor manor which stands some seven miles from the village of Fairhavenwhere he dwelt in state, by turns affable and domineering to the neighbouring farmers, and evincing a grave interest in the condition of their crops.

There was always an indefinable air of pathos about her; as Hunston Wyke put it, one felt, somehow, that her mother had been of a domineering disposition, and that she took after her father.

Now you can say that you're brilliant or amiable or handsome or powerful or domineering, but can you honestly say you're responsible?

Where he was not under the influence of some strange scruple, or some domineering passion, which prevented him from boldly and fairly investigating a subject, he was a wary and acute reasoner, a little too much inclined to scepticism, and a little too fond of paradox.

The slave never can do this as long as he is a slave; whilst he is a "chattel personal" he can own no property; but the time is to come when every man is to sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree, and no domineering driver, or irresponsible master, or irascible mistress, shall make him afraid of the chain or the whip.

The slave never can do this as long as he is a slave; whilst he is a "chattel personal" he can own no property; but the time is to come when every man is to sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree, and no domineering driver, or irresponsible master, or irascible mistress, shall make him afraid of the chain or the whip.

There is nothing more hurtful to our own minds and hearts than a domineering, contemptuous frame of mind.

He clasped their hands in a grip that belied his terse, uncompromising manner at the telephone; his eyes were not those of the domineering individual whom conjecture had appraised so vividly a short time before.

This fine specimen of masculine youthtall, muscular, tanned, with a pair of domineering eyes to which thick eyebrows gave a touch of harshnesshad been born for action, and excitement; Ramón simply couldn't concentrate on books!

" The policy to be pursued was still unsettled when news came of the insulting rejection of Pinckney and the domineering attitude assumed by France.

The theme of the book is the transformation that was wrought in the lives of an irritable, domineering German pastor and his wife through the influence of a young German girl and her American lover.

And with one bound the musician rushed to the bust, kissing it with childish humility, just as a child would caress a stern and domineering father.

In reply to his brother's authoritative, domineering speeches he said nothing.

There were there the domineering and the weak, the ignorant and the vulgar and the patrician and the princess, and though professedly all brought on the footing of sisterly equality, we are not to suppose any Utopian degree of perfection among them.

"I have loved you," he said at last, roused to wrath, "because I thought you gentle and sweet and yielding; now that I have raised you to high position, I find you exacting and domineering.

Crowned with four square towers of considerable height and magnitude, each with a lion and vane on the top; it had besides, a large, lantern-shaped central turret, proudly domineering over the others, and "made with timber of excellent workmanship, curiously wrought with divers pinnacles at each corner, wherein were hung twelve bells for chimage, and a clock with chimes of sundry work."

200 examples of  domineering  in sentences