Example Sentences

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Eventually these enduring uber-bugs — each one a coffee bean of horror, a centimeter long — will overthrow her, overtake Chicago.

From Chicago Tribune • Oct. 27, 2014

The question is this: is the internet a revolutionary innovation, something that will overthrow the established order?

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2011

How feminism will overthrow patriarchy goes unexplained, though she believes it requires the replacement of power with pleasure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mad indeed, Rebel Talal headed for Cairo to drum up more support behind his solemn vow: "We will overthrow King Saud very soon�sooner than you think."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is this same mighty king, Ebed-Tob assures the Pharaoh in another letter, who will overthrow the navies of Babylonia and Aram-Naharaim.

From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)