Example sentences for: overpowering

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

  • The region’s overpowering isolation is very evident on curvy backroads, where drivers must contend with men straggling along the side with hoes hoisted over their shoulders, women carrying bunches of branches, and serious-looking farmers towing donkey-led carts.

  • The cathedral, found at the very center of the forest of pillars, presents an overpowering contrast to its immediate surroundings.

  • Though vastly outnumbered and outgunned, Deveaux employed elaborate ruses with his little boats to convince the Spanish defenders that his force was overpowering.

  • Even though every square inch is embellished, right down to the tiles underfoot, somehow the hall isn’t overpowering or claustrophobic.

  • Tuesday's overpowering show of force by the Nevada gambling aristocracy has had at least one audible effect on the National Gambling Impact Study Commission.


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