Example sentences for: overshadowed

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

  • There are some decent things in Bush's second big education proposal that got overshadowed by his implicit attack on conservative Republicans.

  • Because she's 17 and black (her father calls her a "ghetto Cinderella"), and because she's been hyped for years (she got a multimillion-dollar Reebok contract at 14), she overshadowed the new men's champion--Australian heartthrob Patrick Rafter--and women's champion Martina Hingis, who is a year younger than Williams and creamed her in the finals.

  • But the untrammeled brutality of Milosevic's Serbs in Kosovo and Bosnia overshadowed the trammeled brutality of Tudjman's Croats, and Milosevic's colorful crudeness appeared more wicked than Tudjman's schoolmarm prissiness.

  • For most of his career at Intel, Grove was, if not anonymous, then certainly overshadowed by Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce, technological whiz kids who co-founded the company in 1968.


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