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Synonyms

lord it over

Idioms  

  1. Domineer over, act arrogantly toward, as in After Mary was elected president, she tried to lord it over the other girls. [Late 1500s] Also see queen it.

Example Sentences

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With his tail furled and ears aslant, he seemed to enjoy being out in front of thirteen dogs, seven of them strangers he would soon lord it over.

From Literature

He loved this so much he lorded it over me for years.

From Seattle Times

He won all the trophies, dominated the landscape, lorded it over proceedings like a king on his throne.

From BBC

One team meet-up is staged, randomly, at an auto junkyard; it’s as though these serial sedan-killers want to lord it over the corpses.

From New York Times

Then an injury that took him out of the game from the end of December until Saturday, when he reappeared like a colossus and lorded it over Twickenham.

From BBC

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