Example sentences for: overtures

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

  • His overtures are rebuffed; his son has come to think of his stepfather as his true father.

  • An article lambastes recent Democratic Party overtures to Bill Weld.

  • Abroad, the Times of London said Barak's overtures toward Israel's neighbors will be "widely welcomed" but warned that he needs to get a move on.

  • (Reed has also made overtures toward black churches, home to America's most committed social conservatives.

  • The conciliatory overtures began early this year, after nearly four decades of violence, when the government removed security forces from a large FARC-controlled territory, but stalled when officials requested that an international verification committee monitor the zone.


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