Example sentences for: overturning

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

  • Yet, as Allen Smith, the Wilderness Society's regional director, points out, voters rejected by a 3-to-2 margin the "sport" of aerial wolf shooting in a referendum, overturning a vote in the state Legislature.

  • Specifically, it will review a judgment overturning Nebraska's ban on late-term abortions, and a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that the Boy Scouts could not exclude a gay troop leader.

  • The LAT also does a front-page review of the Supreme Court's performance, emphasizing the many ways in which its decisions stymied positions near and dear to Bill Clinton, whereas the Post 's treatment focuses not on the political, but the personal, noting that in considering medically assisted suicide, Justices O'Connor and Stevens no doubt drew on their own brushes with cancer, and that for the decision overturning suppression of cyberporn, the justices logged on to the Internet.

  • Maybe--to give him the extreme benefit of the doubt--Lamar means that he favors overturning Roe by Supreme Court decision rather than by constitutional amendment.

  • 7. In the United States, Denver fans celebrate a Super Bowl win by overturning cars, breaking windows, setting fires.


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