Example sentences for: overpowering

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

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

  • Never had the state been so strong, never had people submitted as uncomplainingly, never had the country been more economically equal, never had it been more ethnically homogenous, seldom was its political consensus more overpowering.

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

  • Her heart filled with an overpowering love for him, but she was puzzled when he leered, "It matches the silver of the cigar box."

  • 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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