Example Sentences

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Where Wagner’s sculpture is overpoweringly dark, Paul’s is radiantly light.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Brown is forceful, overpoweringly so, playing Lee-Curtis as a guy who is high on his own supply, of ego.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

It's a little sweet, a little smoky, and not overpoweringly hot, so exactly what I look for to top my eggs in the mornings.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2022

Stick with “Thank you so much for bringing these. But I think you might have mixed up the salt and sugar, because they’re overpoweringly bitter!”

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles