What is "bossing"

Usage examples of "bossing".

Harry had always imagined Bill to be an older version of Percy: fussy about rule-breaking and fond of bossing everyone around.

I was discovering that it depended very much on which girl was doing the bossing and how I felt about her.

We'll be pushing just as much around, and Laria'll be bossing us," Morag replied sourly.

The little queen was exactly as she should be: into everything, bossing everyone else, as , imperious and demanding as a Sea Holder.

Entenza showed up in his own chartered ship and began bossing the TV, pix, and radio men, in the course of which he almost had a fight with an unauthorized camera crew.

He did when he was seventeen, but he seems to have learned a bit on his travels—mostly that manipulation is far more effective than bossing," Rod said, "especially considering his training as a secret agent.

Instead he always said tilings like, "I'll bet that Luet is angry because of the way Hushidh never stops Dazya from bossing the younger children," or "Father doesn't really love Nafai more than everybody else, it's just that Nafai is the only one who understands what Father is doing and can help him to do it.

But during the voyage, we won't tolerate older children bossing the younger children around.

Chveya could see that, now that Dza wasn't bossing them anymore, the younger girls genuinely liked her.

Instead he always said things like, "I'll bet that Luet is angry because of the way Hushidh never stops Dazya from bossing the younger children," or "Father doesn't really love Nafai more than everybody else, it's just that Nafai is the only one who understands what Father is doing and can help him to do it.

Instead he always said tilings like, “I’ll bet that Luet is angry because of the way Hushidh never stops Dazya from bossing the younger children,” or “Father doesn’t really love Nafai more than everybody else, it’s just that Nafai is the only one who understands what Father is doing and can help him to do it.

But during the voyage, we won’t tolerate older children bossing the younger children around.

Chveya could see that, now that Dza wasn’t bossing them anymore, the younger girls genuinely liked her.

But unless Attila appoints you as head of a Warrior Triad, or if some day—heh, heh—you become top Warrior, you've got no right to be bossing us around.

Technically, he had no authority for bossing the gunfighter around, and he'd rather save his energy for when it was really needed.