Example Sentences

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Do not grate it by hand; the fumes will be overpowering.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2016

Serve a red too warm and the heady boozy qualities will be overpowering.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

All will be great, and nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, 'My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander