Sentence examples for overcome us from inspiring English sources

If the stuff grew back in three weeks' time, it could eventually overcome us.

The establishment against which Pete Seeger levelled his wrath has overcome us entirely, it seems.

But as kickoff approached, the mood began to shift, and by the time the ball was in play, a collective, mostly unacknowledged gloom had overcome us all.

"It is enough to take two or three incorrect steps and all that came before could overcome us before we know it," he said.

It is enough to take two or three incorrect steps and all that came before could overcome us before we know it".

Upscale Tehran hotels are packed and tables at trendy restaurants are scarce as foreigners jostle for bargains, even amid uncertainty over whether President Obama can overcome US congressional opposition to the deal.

"They overcame us at times," he admitted.

The questions Camilo asked were so simple and off-base that, before long, boredom overcame us.

Nothing had or could have prepared me and Keldysh for the sensations that overcame us upon ejecting from the air lock.

And yet, mourning is so often the reflex that overcomes us, whenever we hear that a certain patch of land in New York will dramatically alter, a certain structure will go to dust.

Another citation was provided by e-mail from Ken Lee, who says that a Ray Charles concert recorded in Stuttgart in 1976 "refers to that hormonal change that overcomes us all when in the throes of love".