| 单词 | overbear |
| 释义 | BETA Examples ofoverbearDictionary> Examples ofoverbear overbearisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help! Add a definition Perhaps, quite simply, he desired his freedom or perhaps his mistress was unreasonable and overbearing. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, the building clearly does communicate its environmental image successfully without being overbearing. From theCambridge English Corpus They could pay overbearing chiefs what they asked for, or they could set their outrigger sails to the wind and hope for the best. From theCambridge English Corpus At first, the losers shed the mores of the old regime, thereby expurgating overbearing father figures. From theCambridge English Corpus Even after drought, numerous fruits may remain and the trees are said to 'overbear'. From theCambridge English Corpus I have found, over many years of performing, that you should never put the overbearing political rant in the first 45 seconds of the show. From theCambridge English Corpus Sometimes she was shoddy as a historian; she could be overbearing as a moral philosopher. From theCambridge English Corpus If he seems overbearing and one-sided in places, it is always because he has clearly thought out his position. From theCambridge English Corpus This may lead to excessive fruit set in full daylight and consequent overbearing die-back and biennial bearing, unless controlled by pruning and other crop management practices. From theCambridge English Corpus In his view, the alleged subversiveness of nineteenth-century narrative "tends to function within the overbearing 'mythologies' that will already have appropriated it" (xi). From theCambridge English Corpus In a tantalizingly brief conclusion, he explains this outcome by reference to the persistence of an overbearing state and the insufficient entrenchment of citizenship and property rights. From theCambridge English Corpus We wish the overbearing to be relatively flexible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not overbearing and arrogant to treat people in this way? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I see local government as encouraging enterprise—not overbearing but putting money where necessary on behalf of the ratepayers and promoting initiatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In addition, the division has already been allowed tooverbearboth officers and men on account of slight shortages in some other divisions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I must accept that sometimes he was impatient, intolerant, perhaps overbearing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 She has had the anguish of seeing her husband degraded, dismissed and victimised by overbearing officialdom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I stress that phrase, as it is intended to indicate one whose position is such as to override andoverbearall other suppliers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, the imperative to agree must notoverbearthe weaker party—usually the wife—to reach a solution against her better interests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what we have set out to achieve, not overbearing centralism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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