had overwhelmed
- past perfect of overwhelm.
Example Sentences
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A woman said hunger and poverty had "overwhelmed everyone".
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Lue was the calm Clippers coach at a time when the Dallas Mavericks had overwhelmed his team and changed the momentum of the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
However, hospitals visited by Reuters in Shanghai and Chengdu, as well as others around the country depicted in images and videos posted on social media, had overwhelmed emergency departments and long queues at fever clinics.
From Reuters ● Jan. 10, 2023
The memory of palm prints on that glass door cut through numbers and statistics and allowed me to process the human scale of suffering that had overwhelmed me throughout the pandemic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
Judge Fielding called for a recess then, seeing that her emotions had overwhelmed her, and Etta followed Ed Soames into the anteroom, where she sat in silence, remembering.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
