Sentence examples for overcomes us from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

It's that familiar pain, sorrow and confusion without guidance that overcomes us all at some point in our lives.

Rabbi Lew describes yirah as "the fear that overcomes us when we suddenly find ourselves in possession of considerably more energy than we are used to, inhabiting a larger space than we are used to inhabiting".

"They overcame us at times," he admitted.

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

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

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

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