Example sentences for: overwhelming

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

  • "One would perhaps also want to note that an overwhelming majority did not," Finkelstein writes.

  • "I'm in a huge, overwhelming sea of debt," said Jennifer Arons, 28, a criminal defense staff attorney at Manhattan Legal Aid. "

  • In particular, the need for scale independent methodologies becomes even more necessary as the limitations of conventional Markov chains are increasingly noted [ 6 ] . These limitations are bound to become overwhelming when signals such as succession schemes of the expression of over 30,000 human genes [ 23 ] become available.

  • The latest list of the 247 most-cited researchers in ecology and environmental sciences emphasizes the overwhelming contributions of authors from North America (73%) and Europe (21%) (ISI 2001b).

  • Within these granite walls, João I married his English bride, Philippa of Lancaster, in 1387 (the scene is depicted in azulejos in São Bento railway station), thus sealing the ancient alliance between Portugal and England — an alliance with particular strength in Porto due to the overwhelming English involvement in the port wine trade.


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