Example sentences for: overcome

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

  • She has overcome centuries of race and gender prejudice to get where she is.

  • Any methods that are developed with researchers and clinicians working together will help to overcome barriers and promote best practices care for a range of drinkers in the emergency setting.

  • The fears of opponents of Proposition 209, which eliminated racial preferences in California's public institutions, seemed to be coming true--despite the efforts of UC officials to compensate for the end of race preferences by giving an edge to students who have overcome economic hardships.

  • In Invisible Man , the Talented Tenth narrator must overcome not only the various ideologies that are presented to him as masks or subversions of identity, but also the various roles and prescriptions for leadership his own race wishes him to fulfill.

  • Scanning laser Doppler flowmetry is a recent development [ 24, 25] of the laser Doppler technique that may overcome these drawbacks.


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