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Example sentences for: overthrow

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

This was the last stand of the samurai against the overthrow of their time-honored privileges.
It's conceivable we could justify continuing to cause pain and death if the embargo fueled enough discontent to cause Castro's overthrow.
Segodnya said it is understandable that Yeltsin ran out of sympathy for a man whose main political support came from Communists, who "have proclaimed as their basic goal the overthrow of the president."
"To choose to build an Islamic religious edifice on the precise spot where Gabriel appeared to Mary is deliberately to overthrow the sacred order that everyone has respected for centuries," the paper said.
An article argues that Timothy McVeigh's view of the Constitution--people may judge and overthrow a government that has exceeded its authority--is consistent with the vision of the Founding Fathers (but Lincoln forged a "new Constitution" based on "nationhood, equality and democracy").