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.

  • 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.

  • In the big picture, however, overpowering scents are a burgeoning problem, and Prudie shares your discomfort.

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

  • 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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