Citations:lord over
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English citations of lord over
- To dominate; to have the most prominent position among
- 2009, Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist, →ISBN, page 48:
- It sat at the highest point, at the very top of the hill, visible from every marker and tombstone in the cemetery, a brooding Gothic castle-in-miniature that seemed to lord over the lesser sites like the abode of a medieval prince.
- 2010, Charles Brough, The Last Civilization, →ISBN, page 45:
- In that way, the Indo-European language adopted the geographic terms of the Fem-Fertility WV system it came to lord over.
- 2012, Lisa Renee Jones, Debbi Rawlins, Delicious Do-Over/Breathless Descent, →ISBN:
- After about ten minutes, they drove through a residential area where the houses were huge and spread out on mammoth lots, and reminded Lindsey of the mansions that once lorded over old sugar plantations.