Sentence examples for can lord from inspiring English sources

('Mandy can lord it over snarling, sneering Mail', Media, last week).

It still can lord over Coachella and Outside Lands, too, with its themed Ben and Jerry's flavor, Bonnaroo Buzz.

Indeed, Detroit can lord it over the real Raleigh, N.C., the home of the Hurricanes, at least in hockey terms.

They deeply resent criticism and seek the vindictive triumph — the reversal of fortunes in which they can lord their excellence over those who scorned them.

Apparently Ben Wa balls are marvelous for exercising your pubococcygeus muscles — and at least you can lord that over your Pilates instructor.

And then, out of all proportion to the rest of this half-timbered snooze of a town, the grandiose theatre and its outgrowths, now with added bombastic tower so that you can lord it over the sleepy Warwickshire environs.

How can you lord your solitary ego over mankind when mankind admits, in every perfume ad, that it thinks precisely as you do?

Even a well-established country like Austria can feel lorded over by far-larger Germany.

So here in Berkeley — where a preoccupation with locally grown, organic, sustainable agriculture is presumed — the mom who strolls the farmers' markets can feel superior to the one who buys pesticide-free produce trucked in from Mexico, who can, in turn, lord it over the one who stoops to conventionally grown carrots (though the folks who grow their own trump us all).

("Sidhe-sides didn't last long among us until we made them trullups". "A sidhe who fears the magic of a demi-fey, what riddle is this?") Ms. Hamilton's tone can be "Lord of the Rings"- lofty.

I was heterosexually married and he got up and said: "A young man came last night and fell into my arms and said, 'Brother Roberts, can the Lord help me?