How to Use overbearing in a Sentence

overbearing

adjective

• He had to deal with his overbearing mother.
• Her husband's overbearing manner made her miserable.
• The sun was out, the grass was green and the heat not yet overbearing.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• The bass is there in spades, but it’s not a thick and overbearing force that swamps the rest of the music.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• The man seemed to be their coach, or their overbearing father, or both.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Quincy Jones’s swelling score feels overbearing and wrong for the tale.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Will his overbearing roommate take the hint and move out?
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
• Who needs an overbearing mirror when the space is this stylish?
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
• The overbearing and frankly rude Gemma is found stabbed to death in Kate's bedroom.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 12 Mar. 2023
• The wife of an overbearing judge has been injured by a long-range shooter.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2020
• It’s like an overbearing father telling you that this is all for your own sake.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Hemsworth begins the film as an overbearing, pompous Thor.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
• Perhaps that’s why we were taken aback by some of the wines in the tasting, in which the oak was overbearing and out of balance.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• The gourmand edge kicks in and settles into a musk that's not too overbearing.
  — ELLE, 1 Aug. 2023
• Not the first overbearing parent to cost his child millions.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 30 Apr. 2017
• His 280-pound father was volatile and overbearing, and there was frequent strife at home.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• Conor, lost in grief, sends the children to live with their overbearing grandmother in Dublin.
  — Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• There's never a line, the staff is cheery but not overbearing, and the espresso drinks are served on marble slabs begging you to take it to stay.
  — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
• By 2005, though, the overbearing whiteness of the art world had driven him back to filmmaking.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Sure, Yara is being a little overbearing, but this is her first child!
  — Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 17 May 2021
• The overbearing Polyphemus was done up in ragtag black.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2022
• Through the years, she's been overbearing and overwhelming.
  — cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
• On screen and on stage, she’s been a psychic, an overbearing mother, a nun, a best friend, a talk show host, a sitcom star, and a nurse, to name just a small few.
  — Rachaell Davis, Essence, 16 Apr. 2021
• In our tests, this machine made espresso that was strong with a crema that wasn't overbearing.
  — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2022
• The bass is also deep, though not overbearing, and vocals are crystal-clear.
  — Ryan Waniata, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2023
• Dovlet Nurgeldiyev was a rather overbearing Lensky, his powerful tenor with a dash of vinegar.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
• How can mere sheets of plexiglass turn fierce and overbearing?
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
• If that sounds like the origin story of a Disney kid with an overbearing momager, think again.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 29 Mar. 2023
• Conservatives have long scorned Democrats as overbearing busybodies who want to take away your freedoms to make money, own guns, operate a business and cook with gas.
  — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
• The staff is friendly and attentive without being overbearing.
  — Michael Williams, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024