Example Sentences

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“We’re not like that, and I love that for us. We’re like, ‘This job is overworking me, I’m getting sick because my body is shutting down, and I’m over it.’”

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

Indeed, her greatest problem is overworking, said Mr. Leach, who worries about injuries.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2016

I suppose I am immune, a bad subject: but I feel as sure as I've felt about anything in the realm of light letters that a charming writer is overworking an unprofitable vein.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 by Various

Your heart is overworking, von Arnheim," he said "Sometimes I fear that it is too soft for a Prussian.

From The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

“Dear fellow; he must be careful, he is overworking himself.”

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony