Example sentences for: overwhelming

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

  • In Madrid, El País gave front-page prominence to an order by the Ukrainian president for a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl to be reopened May 5. In London, the Times led with the news that gay sex at 16 was likely to be made legal in Britain by the summer, while the Guardian led on an opinion poll jointly sponsored by it and the Irish Times showing overwhelming support in Ireland, north and south, for the Ulster peace deal, despite its rejection by large sections of the Protestant leadership in the north.

  • In most cases, overwhelming evidence is too much to ask for, because evidence can be hard to collect and hard to interpret.

  • As we attempted to show above, however, the difference in the likelihood of two mutually incompatible predictions can be overwhelming, with one supported by multiple lines of evidence as opposed to the other.

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

  • After all, the overwhelming majority of U.S. investors never bother with their voting rights in U.S. companies, and the decline in the practice of paying out dividends means that most American stockholders care about only one thing: the price of their shares.


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