Example sentences for: overwhelming

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

  • One is to read Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's just-released report on the subject--a briskly efficient 114-page document that makes an already overwhelming case for suicide about as close to airtight as you can get.

  • A story explores a new phenomenon of urban juries: Black women jurors are causing mistrials by refusing to convict black men despite overwhelming evidence of guilt.

  • Despite some early setbacks, the Communist armies became an overwhelming force.

  • Doors, niches, struts, and cornices are superbly decorated, yet the temple and compound retain a human dimension and are not overwhelming.

  • The union went down in an overwhelming defeat, at which point Murdock sold the company to Fieldcrest.


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