Sentence examples for nearly overpowering from inspiring English sources

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Maybe the fearsome Scott attacked Slager, nearly overpowering him and wrestling away his Taser, as Slager reported.

The impact of his urgent, obsessive photo-manipulations can be fully felt only when they're life-size and nearly overpowering the gallery around you. - Annabelle Sanders.

At the Poet ethanol plant in Chancellor, S.D. two things stand out: the sheer scale of the six corn-storage bins each 90 feet tall, together capable of holding five weeks' worth of corn for the plant and the nearly overpowering smell, a yeasty aroma, with hints of something slightly rotten.

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The boy sopranos, in particular, seemed intent on projecting to the back of the large church, and at times they nearly overpowered their elders.

Her riff on fesenjān, a Persian-inspired concoction of pomegranate and walnuts, was so tangy-sweet one night that it nearly overpowered a succulent young chicken.

His voice has an ethereal lilt that is nearly overpowered by guitars that alternately punch out shoe gazer-tinged melodies and linger on the edges of a dreamlike soundscape.

Once it starts to sweat, the darkness of the chocolate nearly overpowers the bracing custard, made from freshly squeezed Key limes.

Mr. Eastwood, beloved in France, nearly saved Cannes with his dark, overpowering "Mystic River," starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.

But when I first saw the show last spring in Louisville at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, the nonliteral elements were overpowering; Ms. Iizuka's words were nearly irrelevant, calling attention only to their insufficiency.

Today, after a rain delay of nearly two hours at Wimbledon, the ninth-seeded Mauresmo finished off Laura Granville of Chicago, overpowering her, 6-2, 6-2, to advance to the quarterfinals.

Nearly all of her family, and many of her friends, died in the camps, and the experience came close to overpowering Hana's will to survive.

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