Use overbearing in a sentence
Short sentences using overbearing
- He was selfish, overbearing, cruel--unfaithful. [9]
More example sentences with the word overbearing in them
- The capitalist, overbearing, tyrannical, hearing a few, simple truths in his own house from Peter--her Peter. [9]
- He purposed to show himself in all his dignity to the overbearing architect, but he also remembered that it was not advisable to provoke unnecessarily the mysterious bearded stranger, with the big clog. [10]
- His temper was quick, the prospect of opposition often made him overbearing, yet on occasions he listened with surprising patience to his subordinates when they ventured to differ from his opinions. [9]
- He is a proud, high-tempered Englishman, of good but not extraordinary parts; stubborn and punctilious, with a disposition to be overbearing, which I have often been compelled to check in its own way. [6]
- He was tenacious, overbearing, self-willed, somewhat silent and also somewhat bad-tempered. [11]
- He is neither overbearing nor submissive beyond just what is right; he holds neither with the great nor yet with the mean, but with men of our stamp. [10]
- A good number of people had come out of curiosity to see what manner of man the Englishman was, well prepared to resent his overbearing snobbishness-- they were inclined to believe every Englishman snobbish. [11]
- For his father's noble pride he has overbearing haughtiness; for kindly severity, rude harshness; for dignity, conceit; for perseverance, obstinacy. [10]
- The overbearing young man was quite altered; his eyes, which were dim with weeping, had moved her, Perpetua, to tears. [10]
- He had no idea that life could be so overbearing, and he was inclined to resent his own insignificance. [11]
- My lord the Elector had many a time showed his teeth to the knighthood of Brandenburg, appealing to law and justice when he had taken part with the citizens and humbled the overbearing pride of the nobles. [10]
- His conceit, his boasting, and his overbearing manner, which no doubt was one of the causes why he was unable to act in harmony with the other adventurers of that day, all told against him. [4]
- They are ferocious and isolated, they are proud and overbearing, they are horribly cruel, but they are potent, and are difficult to reach. [11]
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