Example sentences for: overturned

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

  • Babies bang wooden spoons on overturned saucepans; grannies rock so silently you can hear the creak of floorboards and hip bones.

  • So far, that effort has ousted 27 union members, put four local unions under a central trusteeship, and overturned four tainted local elections.

  • The NYT notes that this is the second time in four years a major FCC affirmative action program has been overturned: three years ago Congress did away with tax breaks for companies selling broadcast stations to minorities.

  • A federal appeals court overturned a court injunction against Microsoft.

  • The workers' revolution that Karl Marx envisioned occurred in 1989 when Eastern Europeans overturned authoritarian rule.


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