Dominating
[‘dɑmə,netɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dominate
Checker: Thomas
Examples
- 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.
Checker: Thomas