Example sentences for: overthrow

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

  • Although the stated goal is anti-proliferation of mass-destruction weapons and enhancing regional stability, both the WP and WSJ report an additional one: giving Iraqis a motive and an opportunity to overthrow Saddam.

  • Quoting "a senior official in the Clinton administration," the Guardian of London claimed Monday in its main front-page story that the Pentagon is pushing for a ground attack on Yugoslavia to overthrow President Slobodan Milosevic.

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

  • That is not, as previously thought, the overthrow of one faction by another but describes those occasions when the minister reverses his position while claiming consistency of stance.

  • There is a bunch of coverage today on the prospects for any internal, U.S.-supported overthrow of Saddam Hussein.


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