The phrase "monopolize him" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person who is taking up too much of another person's time and attention, for example: "She was monopolizing him at the party, and he had no chance to talk to anyone else."
On such visits, Jakkie's handsome, bullying father, Jak, usually drags the boy off on manly expeditions — hiking treacherous kloofs (ravines) and ridges, and scrabbling up (and falling off) rock faces — both to monopolize him and to vengefully deprive his mother, Milla, and his nanny, Agaat, of his company.
But now the old gatekeeper is monopolizing him, explaining how he first met him at the 1973 Open.
Except for two or three hours on Saturday afternoon, when Ellison attended the dedication of the new library, his classmates monopolized him for virtually the entire weekend.
"Basically, I would spend several nights at a guy's house and allow him to monopolize my time completely, be it dates, Netflix and chill, or phone time throughout the day," said the 26-year-old writer from Atlanta.
The Church of Scientology says he quit because the U.S. Navy "attempted to monopolize all his researches and force him to work on a project 'to make man more suggestible' and when he was unwilling, tried to blackmail him by ordering him back to active duty to perform this function.
According to the Church of Scientology, he quit because the US Navy had "attempted to monopolize all his researches and force him to work on a project "to make man more suggestible" and when he was unwilling, tried to blackmail him by ordering him back to active duty to perform this function.
Last week, Acting President George W. Bush filed a civil-rights suit against Mr. Clinton, alleging a conspiracy by him and Mr. Cochran to monopolize media coverage in a manner that abridges Mr. Bush's freedom of expression, as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Sunni Arab and Kurdish officials have accused Mr. Maliki of trying to monopolize power, and they have been attempting to force him from office through a vote of no confidence.
You don't want to monopolize the conversation, so make sure you listen to him as much as you talk.
Jomo Kenyatta also wrote eloquently about the "professional friends of Africa who are prepared to maintain their friendship provided...that the African will continue to play the part of an ignorant savage so that they can monopolize the office of interpreting his thoughts and speaking for him".
His blatant attempts to monopolize power have led Sunni and Kurdish politicians to try to remove him by a vote of no confidence.
