Example sentences for: overturn

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

  • While they play along, Republicans fantasize about a Democratic scandal huge enough to overturn the existing political dynamic.

  • The Washington Legal Foundation a Washington, D.C., organization that defends private property rights sued in federal court in 1997 to overturn the practice.

  • The problem with this defense is that the court is free to overturn or disregard earlier factual findings if new evidence--say, a recently killed body--proves them to have been incorrect.

  • Offered a clear choice of candidates and policies for the first time since the 1979 revolution, an overwhelming majority of Iranians voted to overturn the social and cultural restrictions that have become synonymous with the Islamic republic's revolutionary zeal.

  • Although it did not overturn Buckley vs.


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