Example Sentences

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I should have been commanding authority, not standing at the club door, embarrassingly ignorant of the secret code.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2021

Likewise, an NPR report published around the same time cited heightened interest abroad as the prime reason trappers have been commanding higher prices for furs.

From Time • Feb. 10, 2014

I believe that I am reasonably well qualified to reflect that attitude, since I was the commissioning executive officer in Harder and have been commanding officer of Trigger, another of the new class .

From Time Magazine Archive

He was advanced in life, tall, and of a form that might once have been commanding, but it was a little bowed by time—perhaps by care.

From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington

In this I believe I was right; otherwise a man of such attainments would have been commanding something bigger than a private yacht.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider