How to Use "commanding" with Example Sentences

1. He was a man who dominated any room and all its occupants with his commanding voice and his presence , and who answered only to his wife , and to the king .
2. He tried to avoid a monotone in commanding his employees , sit upright during meetings and display powerful confidence at a conference table by marking his territory with a water bottle and notebook .
3. Yet its angular bones give it a commanding presence .
4. A brief half hour of nonsense followed where another official was commanding us to go through customs yet again , this time with our bikes , but the soldiers around the corner were refusing to unlock the doors .
5. It might be more accurate to liken the chinese economy to a flotilla of large and small boats , all steaming ahead at full bore , with little regard to the direction of the fleet or the diktats of its commanding officers in beijing .