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Example sentences for "domineered"

Lexicographically close words:
dominates; dominating; domination; dominator; domineer; domineering; domineers; domini; dominical; dominie
  1. Three loytring companions that fell in company together, domineered and swaggered so long, that all their mony was quite consumed and gone.

  2. In London dwelt a mad conceited fellow, which with his wit lived with Gallants and domineered with good fellowes.

  3. He never aspired to more than he could accomplish: never struck, excepting for a purpose: never domineered through the mere insolence of power.

  4. Freiburg followed its example on April 22, and Bernhard proceeded to undertake the siege of Breisach, the great fortress which domineered over the whole valley of the Upper Rhine.

  5. In the country district a narrow-minded gentry, without knowledge or culture, domineered over all around, and strove to exact the uttermost farthing from the peasant in order to keep up the outward appearance of rank.

  6. Their instruments were the sans-culottes, or rabble, who domineered in that capital, and were wholly at the devotion of those incendiaries, and received their daily pay.

  7. Revolutions are most often, though not always, produced by a fermentation among the mass of the population, who have a heavy score to settle against a class that has domineered and tyrannized over them.

  8. He was not the mere lad she had loved with a guiding motherly love, but a man to respect and rely on--ready, collected, dealing with easy coolness with the person who had domineered over that house for years.

  9. And the assumption of a Rabbinical air; for Rabbi Chama bar Chanena says, 'Joseph died before any of his brethren, because he domineered over them.

  10. During the time of the second Temple Persia domineered over Israel for thirty-four years and the Greeks held sway a hundred and eighty.

  11. In the Club which had braved the King and domineered over the Parliament there had been no more noisy republican.

  12. In the midst of this little gaudy metropolis the lofty tent of the queen domineered over the rest like a stately palace.

  13. The proud spirit of De Aguilar was incensed at having the game of war thus turned upon him, and his gallant forces domineered over by mountain-boors whom he had thought to drive, like their own cattle, to Antiquera.

  14. The crest of the hill rose high above the town into a mere crag, inaccessible on every other side, and crowned by a powerful castle, which domineered over the surrounding country.

  15. Then he went forth without awaking her and fared through wilds and wolds for a term of ten days, travelling by light and by night, till he drew near a certain city which was domineered over by an Elephant.

  16. The other replied, "O my son, verily our city is domineered over by a monstrous Lion who every year cometh about this time and he hath already done on such wise for forty and three years.

  17. In 1685 a subscription had just been raised among those who frequented the wells for building a church, which the Tories, who then domineered everywhere, insisted on dedicating to Saint Charles the Martyr.

  18. Several dynasties of these tyrants had, since the Restoration, domineered over the streets.

  19. Edict of Nantes, and Catholic intolerance again domineered over the lives and fortunes of Protestants.

  20. Escalade, supported by a commanding fire of musketry, was the plan adopted, and from the manner in which the prison was domineered the attempt might have easily succeeded.

  21. Harvey expected, and with reason, that the appearance of his masses on the hills which domineered the town would have secured the active co-operation of the Kilkenny men from the other side of the Barrow.

  22. He occupied a turret, which domineered the road, with half a dozen musketeers, and with the remaining twenty retired into the old mansion-house.

  23. He produced nothing: he consumed the fruits of the industry of other men; and he domineered over those by whom he was supported.

  24. Sarah was lively and voluble, domineered over those whom she regarded with most kindness, and, when she was offended, vented her rage in tears and tempestuous reproaches.

  25. To us he appears to have been neither a maniac in the former case nor a prophet in the latter, but in both cases a great and good man, led into extravagance by a sensibility which domineered over all his faculties.

  26. Magdeburg was a garrison city, and the audiences were domineered by the cold reserve observed by the military.

  27. The farther Antiochus was removed, the more tyrannically would the Gauls have domineered in Asia; and all the countries on this side of Taurus you would have annexed to their empire, not to your own.

  28. He had dogs and horses, and might shoot and hunt for scores of miles round about: but the little lady-mother domineered at home, and when there he had to submit to her influence and breathe her air.

  29. The little Queen domineered over her little dominion, and the Princes her sons were only her first subjects.

  30. How Darco worked, stormed, domineered in the ensuing month, nobody outside the limits of the Congreve knew.

  31. Father and son had grown to a curious sympathy, in which age never domineered because of age, or youth presumed because of youth.

  32. But the ties of blood, of marriage, and of friendship, the memory of mutual services, the memory of common triumphs and common disasters, were insufficient to restrain that ambition which domineered over all the virtues and vices of Walpole.

  33. To us he appears to have been neither a maniac in the former case, nor a prophet in the latter, but in both cases a great and good man, led into extravagance by a sensibility which domineered over all his faculties.

  34. He had conciliated the King; he domineered over the House of Commons; he was adored by the people; he was admired by all Europe.

  35. Catherine de Medicis, may be looked upon as regulators who qualified that temperament of Christian morals which domineered over the world under the imperium of those reverend fathers.

  36. On two recent occasions have been seen evident proofs of the utter prostration of that class which once domineered over the entire nation.

  37. Lewis domineered over them as if they had been his subjects, and troubled himself as little about their happiness as if they had been his enemies.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "domineered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.