Example Sentences

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Yet far too often we have overtaxed and undertrained police officers struggling to appropriately collect and analyze evidence.

From Slate • May 11, 2021

This augurs well for such upcoming challenges as the Mahler Sixth and Shostakovich 10th symphonies and Strauss’s “Till Eulenspiegel,” works that would have overtaxed the orchestra I had been hearing the past few years.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2016

Otherwise, the highs and lows, mostly lows, of recent days might have overtaxed his ballast.

From Time Magazine Archive

No wonder if Monsieur Laurentie should have sunk under it, and the long strain upon his energies, which would have overtaxed a younger and stronger man.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Stretton, Hesba

America had already drained the Peninsula of her able-bodied men to such an extent that a military occupation of these Islands would have overtaxed the resources of the mother country.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John