overbore
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Assistant Attorney General Sunita Doddamani said there is no evidence that the informant’s actions “overbore” the defendants’ will “to be law-abiding citizens.”
From Seattle Times
In combat he was terrifying, fighting entirely to kill, indifferent to any wounds he received himself and closing with his adversaries until his weight overbore and exhausted them.
From Literature
His sense of public duty, however, overbore all personal considerations, and he set sail on the 16th of March, 1775, and died off Gloucester, Massachusetts, on the 26th of April.
From Project Gutenberg
It was Forester who overbore with ridicule my suggestion that he should be fed at regular hours, for which I never forgave him.
From Project Gutenberg
He had thundered against the King and the King's trusted Ministers, the Walpoles and the Carterets, with a voice that overbore all others, and which apparently could not be silenced.
From Project Gutenberg
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