domineers
- present tense form of domineer (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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His giving a hundred a year to Bell won't make you comfortable in this house if he still domineers over you.
From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony
From this scene he had learned an alarming lesson: that the flesh domineers the soul and refuses to admit any schism.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
The picturesque, in short, domineers over English tragedy; the sculpturesque, or the statuesque, over the Grecian.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James
There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another’s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by Clouston, William Alexander
But Miss Arkwright's nurse Jane domineers into the peaceful circle with a clairvoyance that Miss Gwendolen is giving trouble, and bears her away rebellious.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
