Dominate

Examples

• But if I were in the ring with one now I do not know if I could dominate my legs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is a name I can never dominate. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• By natural and imperceptible degrees the idea of the god emperor came to dominate the whole Romanized world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Help me, O Lord, to dominate the movement of my legs that I should not run when the bad moment comes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The instinctive c raving for power, the will to dominate, of which Nietzsche was the lyricist, was in these men subdued to patience, industry, and philanthropy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• As we have already noted, this priestly caste was still only struggling to dominate Indian life in the days of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the mass of people, vegetative and animal functions dominate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Such plants had already been in evidence in the later levels of the (American Cretaceous) Mesozoic, but now they dominated the scene altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They appeal to history for confirmation: have not all social changes, they ask, meant the emergence of a new economic class until it dominated society? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Nomadism from Central Asia dominated the known world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A pompous and unintelligent classical pretentiousness dominated them, and they dominated the schools of the middle and upper classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For Gerald was in reaction against Charity; and yet he was dominated by it, it assumed supremacy in the inner life, and he could not confute it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was a high snowy mountain and it dominated the valley but it was so far away that it did not make a shadow. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He HATES the ideal utterly, yet it still dominates him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Society suppresses us and dominates us--Bird, be quiet! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His personality was strong, aggressive, dominating. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We are a dominating race, fit to rule; and a glance round the world will show you our colonizing capabilities. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The dominating fact, nevertheless, is a new sanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I thought she took a beating up the hill but she was certainly dominating just now back there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Not infrequently what was once simply a factor of life becomes the dominating part of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In America, in 1840, Morse had taken out his first patent on an electromagnetic telegraph, the principle of which is dominating in the art to this day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This patent contained the first continuous feed, and it was re-issued and extended, and ran with dominating claims on the continuous feed, until 1877. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Edited by Ben