was overthrowing
- past progressive of overthrow.
Example Sentences
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“I thought he was overthrowing, I hadn’t seen that all spring,” Roberts said after the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
People felt Jones was not mobile; he was not making great decisions; he was overthrowing guys.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
By the time he was overthrowing Aristotelian physics, Nicolaus Copernicus had devised the math allowing Earth to be a planet, and Galileo had made the decisive observations validating that prediction.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2019
When Kirk Cousins threw an early interception, it seemed as if he was overthrowing the football to you.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2017
Her attitude and the troubled expression of her face as well as her voice indicated that the logic of the situation was overthrowing the jaunty self-possession which she had at first affected.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
