Sentences for overcome. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use overcome in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for overcome.
- Her spirits seemed overcome. (4)
- Only Victor could have overcome them! (10)
- The temptation had almost overcome him. (10)
- I caught hold of the lamp-post, overcome. (10)
- Overcome by strangeness, Noel made no attempt to talk. (8)
- Beauchamp left her, like a man out-argued and overcome. (10)
- The likelihood was, that Clara had been overcome by timidity. (10)
- But a hundred times that night he stopped, overcome by memories. (8)
- A little difficulty to be overcome was no evil to Henry Crawford. (4)
- It is a ghastly thought, that the craven impulse may overcome us. (10)
- These conditions might be overcome if the spirit of the times demanded. (16)
- Concerning himself, he thought commendingly, a tear would have overcome him. (10)
- Soames, who still held her hand, was overcome by an impulse which surprised him. (8)
- He came to the Obelisk, and leaned against it, overcome by a spasm of realisation. (8)
- Juliana was jealous of a love strong as she deemed her own to overcome obstacles. (10)
- And suddenly he was overcome with amazement that they should have taken such a step. (8)
- Fatigue and exhaustion had so overcome him, that for some minutes he was speechless. (6)
- Their love of peace and tranquillity would overcome their feelings about independence. (18)
- Yet they can overcome: even as fictitious battalions, they can overcome. (10)
- The good folk of the inn at Pont, when we called there for the bags, were overcome with marveling. (2)
- It lies with her to overcome what degrades her, that she may win to liberty by overcoming what exalts. (10)
- Once he gave me something, and then took it back, with a self-distrust of it which I could not overcome. (9)
- Enormous difficulties in regard to the testimony and the verifications were discussed; they were overcome. (10)
- He is perhaps the youngest who ever did it, and consequently there were various difficulties to be overcome. (10)
- She sighed, and was silent, being one of those very weak reeds who are easily vanquished and never overcome. (10)
- Seated in an armchair and overcome by the heat and the droning of some prosy passengers near by, I fell asleep. (7)
- He could not endure the tones of cathedral music; but he had at times to kneel and listen to it, and be overcome. (10)
- Nevil, whatever you intend to do to overcome your uncle, trust to time, be friends with him; be a little worldly! (10)
- My lieutenant at this moment was so overcome with hunger and fatigue that he fell down, and was thought to be dead. (10)
- And, rising, he went over to the window, looking out at the moonlit lawn, overcome by a sudden aversion from more talk. (8)
- Overcome by misery too acute for thought or reason, he crept into a dusky corner of the room and sat down on the floor. (8)
- This can be overcome by laying wire lath over each course, and then buttering the mortar on the inside and outside edges. (17)
- And sitting down by her, he was at great pains to overcome her shame in being so surprised, and persuade her to speak openly. (4)
- He is disposed to sympathize with the Democratic party at the South but cannot overcome his distrust of the party as a whole. (14)
- The perfume of lilies had overcome the scent of books, and a bee, dusky, adventurer, filled the room with his pleasant humming. (8)
- I was calm for some time; but the greatest degree of forbearance may be overcome, and I hope I was afterwards sufficiently keen. (4)
- They had begun to fail him before he entered the house, and they were quite overcome by the captivating manners of Mrs. Dashwood. (4)
- Few, probably, appreciate the tremendous undertaking involved in this picturesque invasion, and the difficulties met and overcome. (21)
- At these points it needed considerable reasoning to overcome her wish and some active manoeuvring in both of us to enforce our arguments. (9)
- Here he became so overcome with merriment, that he was obliged to sit down, which he did opposite to me, and actually shook with laughter. (6)
- She had instinctively turned away; but stopping on his approach, received his compliments with an embarrassment impossible to be overcome. (4)
- He did not blink the fact that there were many disparities, and that there would be certain disadvantages which could never be quite overcome. (9)
- When Leila found herself with Fort in that loneliness to which she had been looking forward, she was overcome by an access of nervous silence. (8)
- When forty cells had been used, the animal became lethargic and almost comatose, looking for all the world like a man overcome by strong drink. (21)
- We knew the stern traditional circus antipathy toward affairs of the kind and wondered whether the fixed opposition of the aunt could be overcome. (21)
- He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart. (4)
- Probably his Laetitia was overcome, as he had long known her to be when they conversed; nerve-subdued, unable to deploy her mental resources or her musical. (10)
Also see sentences for: bewilder, conquer, crush, defeat, master, overthrow, prevail.
Definition of overcome:
- overcome, -vr-kum’, v.t. to get the better of: to conquer or subdue: (_obs._) to spread over, surcharge. | v.i. to be victorious.(0)
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