overbore
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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It was his love that urged him on, his love that overbore his scruples, his gravest apprehensions.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
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 Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
After that the worst continued to happen, and at a pace that overbore all resistance.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
Nevertheless, in the halting words of the woman who had suffered, if only from misapprehension upon so grave a point, there was a rude eloquence that overbore the lady's incredulity.
From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins
It was Forester who overbore with ridicule my suggestion that he should be fed at regular hours, for which I never forgave him.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
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