How to Use overbearing in a Sentence

overbearing

adjective
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  • He had to deal with his overbearing mother.
  • Her husband's overbearing manner made her miserable.
  • The sun was out, the grass was green and the heat not yet overbearing.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The bass is there in spades, but it’s not a thick and overbearing force that swamps the rest of the music.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The man seemed to be their coach, or their overbearing father, or both.
    — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Quincy Jones’s swelling score feels overbearing and wrong for the tale.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Will his overbearing roommate take the hint and move out?
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
  • Who needs an overbearing mirror when the space is this stylish?
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
  • The overbearing and frankly rude Gemma is found stabbed to death in Kate's bedroom.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The wife of an overbearing judge has been injured by a long-range shooter.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2020
  • It’s like an overbearing father telling you that this is all for your own sake.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • Hemsworth begins the film as an overbearing, pompous Thor.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
  • Perhaps that’s why we were taken aback by some of the wines in the tasting, in which the oak was overbearing and out of balance.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The gourmand edge kicks in and settles into a musk that's not too overbearing.
    — ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
  • His 280-pound father was volatile and overbearing, and there was frequent strife at home.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Conor, lost in grief, sends the children to live with their overbearing grandmother in Dublin.
    — Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
  • By 2005, though, the overbearing whiteness of the art world had driven him back to filmmaking.
    — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Sure, Yara is being a little overbearing, but this is her first child!
    — Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 17 May 2021
  • The overbearing Polyphemus was done up in ragtag black.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Through the years, she's been overbearing and overwhelming.
    — cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
  • On screen and on stage, she’s been a psychic, an overbearing mother, a nun, a best friend, a talk show host, a sitcom star, and a nurse, to name just a small few.
    — Rachaell Davis, Essence, 16 Apr. 2021
  • In our tests, this machine made espresso that was strong with a crema that wasn't overbearing.
    — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2022
  • The bass is also deep, though not overbearing, and vocals are crystal-clear.
    — Ryan Waniata, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Dovlet Nurgeldiyev was a rather overbearing Lensky, his powerful tenor with a dash of vinegar.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • How can mere sheets of plexiglass turn fierce and overbearing?
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
  • If that sounds like the origin story of a Disney kid with an overbearing momager, think again.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
  • They don’t get stuck in the common trope of the woman being an overbearing wet blanket, arms crossed and holding back the leading man from all the fun.
    — Darcie Wilder, The Cut, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The raisins were more prominent than with the Mariano’s bread, but not overbearing.
    — Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
  • But Frannie isn’t a working girl with an overbearing pimp.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Patri is an overbearing mother who struggles to connect with her teen son, determined to move in with his father.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024

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