Example sentences for: overthrow

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

  • Several Arab commentators referred to the repression of the student protests as "Iran's Tiananmen Square," and the Pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi said Monday in an editorial that the uprising was reminiscent of the student revolt in Indonesia that led to the overthrow of the Suharto regime.

  • Would there be another attempt to overthrow Gingrich?

  • If you're going to have chastity, you're going to have jokes about the power of sex to overthrow that ludicrous vow.

  • While British papers were expressing the hope that it would lead to the overthrow of Milosevic by the Serbs, Montanelli predicted the opposite.

  • Technological "revolutions" don't really overthrow anything--they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.


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