Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

There's evidence that new operas are overturning old conceptions and drawing in a wider audience.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024

But a handful of recent papers are overturning that assumption.

From Science Magazine • May 14, 2024

“But there are people who are doing it who have never been trained, and their boats are overturning and we have to rescue them.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017

And their findings are overturning conventional notions surrounding the neuroscience of creativity.

From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2013

Men are overturning, trampling, and suffocating one another; they throw off their clothing, cast away their arms.

From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk