Example sentences for: overcame

How can you use “overcame” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WP and NYT front pictures of the Bushes on the stump Saturday, and the NYT explains that, faced with a tough New Hampshire contest, Bush finally overcame his reluctance to flaunt his political pedigree.

  • Einstein overcame his metaphysical scruples about the big bang not long before his death in 1955, referring to his earlier attempt to dodge it by an ad hoc theoretical device as "the greatest blunder of my career."

  • Newsweek 's David Brooks wrote that Bauer "overcame his own financial disadvantages" and joined Dole as the two surviving "Have-Not candidates."

  • Rodriguez (like Solis and Tejeda before him) is considered a Mexican-American success story, a local who overcame cultural, class, and linguistic barriers to rise to positions of leadership in the area.

  • Steve Hale and Betsy Alaniz's clients overcame a CIA claim of immunity from judicial scrutiny, and the case is in discovery.


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