Sentence examples for overcomes him from inspiring English sources
He teaches Jo Lee how to handle the nets and lets him nap in the sampan when exhaustion overcomes him.
But when stress overcomes him, he knows he will need more support "to keep in check with myself".
He returns alone to his hotel room when a terrible, detached feeling overcomes him — he realizes that he is going to die.
Every time David Cameron thinks about how safe he'd like to keep you, passion overcomes him and he has to have a lie down.
But the most effective quality is the harsh staccato that overcomes him when he speaks about his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the boundless, all-encompassing, and perhaps eternal war on terror.
Theater and concert audiences have always indulged his excesses — his wild range from baritone to falsetto, his eagerness to wring each lyric dry, the slightly unhinged quality he can take on when the music overcomes him — and, make no mistake, these are integral to his power as a performer.
Abruptly, shame and sadness overcame him.
The disease overcame him, but never defeated him.
Nadal had to kill something in Federer to overcome him.
As they approached Corradinna Joe's eagerness overcame him.
