Example sentences for: overbearing

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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