Sentence examples for ordering around from inspiring English sources

As voiced in Newman's droll, froggish tones, the song's seedy protagonist becomes pathetically dependent on the woman he's ordering around; as belted by Tom Jones, he's only ever Tom Jones.

Suddenly he's the one ordering around men his father's age.

She was used to ordering around her staff and having her breakfast brought to her on a tray.

It was a prequel, showing the Magi getting ready to go on their trip, ordering around servants, gathering gold, frankincense and myrrh.

"Chief whip" is suitably 19th century when ordering around a pack of hounds but, by all accounts, she'll be herding cats, and picky ones at that.

"I'd find it much more congenial to be ordering around 100,000; it's just hard to get all those many, many words into their right places".

He wants a "Dick Tracy watch" that he could verbally order around, instead of pushing buttons.

TV folks could be ordered around like that by sports officials--in 1962.

He still has the Rock and Stone Cold Austin to order around.

"They are just ordered around by the government".

Markets invariably take on a life of their own; they cannot be easily ordered around.