Example sentences for: overbearing

How can you use “overbearing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To hold that psychology--even physiology--has no relationship to grammar seems overbearing to me, for experience has a great deal to do with how we use and understand language, which I consider highly associative.

  • In an op-ed piece, the FT said that "abroad he was the most important symbol of the Jospin government's credibility and its willingness to modernise the state by reducing the overbearing role of the public sector."

  • (Actually, it's a fat, overbearing Jewish mother who ushers in the apocalypse--a scenario that gave me pause but which on reflection seems more plausible than others I've heard.)

  • Europe calls American political and economic power overbearing, and the United States is wearying of its protector role.

  • Throw in a couple of well- intentioned, overbearing grandparents, tearful reminiscing about the poet- waiter's dead sister, and repeated shots of characters gazing soulfully out at the Pacific, and you've got the makings of a movie so overwrought it should only be shown on Lifetime.


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