Example sentences for: overbearing

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

  • The collection — and indeed the building itself — is not huge or overbearing, allowing visitors to relax and enjoy the art perhaps more than is possible in such massive galleries as the Louvre or Rijksmuseum.

  • Dominated by their overbearing literary mother and ignored by their dismissive multimillionaire father, these virtual orphans are raised by governesses and servants.

  • Shopkeepers are skilled salesmen, but never pushy or 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.)

  • The lesson of the Schumer campaign is not that you need to be Clinton to beat D'Amato, given that the overbearing Schumer will never be Clinton.


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