Example Sentences

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The result has been a huge export push that has overwhelmed foreign manufacturers from Germany to Indonesia who can’t compete with the flood of Chinese goods, straining trade relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Devastating flooding has overwhelmed southern Thailand this week, particularly in Hat Yai, near the border with Malaysia, where large areas were submerged, pushing residents to seek shelter on rooftops.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

The sheer volume of displaced people has overwhelmed welfare services, the mayor’s office told the BBC, leaving thousands of displaced people on the streets.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

After two years of record rainfall in Los Angeles, the California native habitat has overwhelmed the front yard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

Never, in the gloomiest of my days of destitution, did I suffer the torture, the agony, the sleeplessness with which fortune has overwhelmed me, this horrible fortune which I abhor and which suffocates me!

From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham