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

Mr. Eugene fumed as he watched the Wolves commit one blunder after another: The quarterback was overthrowing his receivers, the safeties were lagging in coverage and the offensive line was getting steamrolled.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2016

"She must have made Phillida feel that she was overthrowing the statues of her great-grandfathers, and she no doubt urged the unhappiness she would cause you."

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward