Example sentences for: overcame

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

  • It overcame the inherent complications of a response across jurisdictions because the Incident Command System, a formalized management structure for emergency response, was in place in the National Capital Region on 9/11.

  • In Yardley's affectionate yet dubious portrait of a man he knew only through rambling late-night phone calls, Exley was a classic one-hit wonder, a writer who never overcame his breakthrough.

  • He overcame this fear enough to give away billions (more by far than even Andrew Carnegie) and created the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, and his own foundation.

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

  • Finally, though, Zeus overcame his cowardice and grappled with the monster.


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