overbore
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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He had known this little butterfly in private life, but now professional considerations overbore everything.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
My assurance of success was so strong that it overbore every other consideration.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
While things went well the life policy of joyous carelessness overbore the pessimism, but when things began to go ill the conviction arose that life is not worth living.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
There was a bold rough energy, a daring go-ahead spirit, that overbore him wherever he went.
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
After that the worst continued to happen, and at a pace that overbore all resistance.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin
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