Example sentences for: overshadowed

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

  • She fits a standard anorexic profile: overachieving daughter from a well-off family, with a distant father and a mother whose ambitions (intellectual and sexual) have left Ruth feeling overshadowed and neglected.

  • The story was overshadowed by the AMA's messy divorce from Sunbeam and its forswearing of all product endorsements.

  • But if DeGeneres feels that her subtleties as a performer are being overshadowed by her status as a lesbian, she's the one who set it up that way.

  • Thompson's notoriety has also overshadowed his fine early style.

  • As the SCMP observed, although it was "[r]ecently overshadowed by the conflict in Kosovo," for 10 years now the West has used "tough sanctions and low-intensity bombing, which has taken place on average once every three days" to battle Saddam Hussein's regime, without "having the required effect."


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