Example sentences for: overbearing

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

  • Most critics agree the film is heavy on melodrama, and the father's character is implausibly overbearing.

  • 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.

  • The response No problem is probably intended as a sincere expression of willingness to serve, but it comes across as a polite way of saying, I don't really mind your having taken up my valuable time coping with the mentally and physically taxing demands imposed by your overbearing, though trivial request, because I am an accommodating, thoughtful person paid to occupy myself with major decisions concerning issues of earthshaking consequence, with but don't let it happen again implied.

  • ) A writer travels to Baghdad and finds Iraqis despairing: Food and jobs are scarce, travel is impossible, and internal security is overbearing.

  • (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.)


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