Example Sentences

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If they do, the World Series champion will have overcome unique obstacles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2020

If, at the end of this season, the Nationals will have survived with a chance to play in a wild-card playoff game, the odds they will have overcome are far more than that.

From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2019

The absorbent will have overcome its injurious tendency, and it may be safely applied to any crop.

From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)

But the time is not far distant when science will have overcome these drawbacks, and when Central and East Africa will have become one of the most productive and valuable parts of the tropics.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

I am talking about this purgatory when I am symbolically telling the story of my "spirits' furnace", the terrible time of which I will have overcome today or tomorrow.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther