Sentence examples for overcoming queen from inspiring English sources
They ought to have been fresher, having spent a week in Spain while Rangers were overcoming Queen of the South in the quarter-final.
Rangers ended their gruelling season on a high note as they clinched the Scottish Cup at Hampden Park, but they were made to toil for the spoils after squandering a two-goal lead before eventually overcoming plucky Queen of the South in a hard-fought second half.
"Bowie had to overcome a king, two queens and a political heavyweight to triumph in our poll, and in doing so has struck a blow for 20th and 21st-century fashions," editor Rob Attar said.
Top-seeded Lleyton Hewitt won his third consecutive Queen's Club grass-court championship, overcoming Tim Henman, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, in London in a tuneup for Wimbledon.
Give her more than a wicked queen to overcome.
In Giacomo Puccini's fiercely misogynistic Turandot, grand opera's equivalent to the chariot race in Ben-Hur, love overcomes a vengeful ice queen, but not right away.
Queen of the South progressed to the final of the Ramsdens Cup after overcoming Arbroath in extra-time.
Top-seeded Lleyton Hewitt and No. 2 Tim Henman will meet in the final of the Queen's Club grass-court championship in London for the second straight year after overcoming stubborn opposition yesterday.
Apparently, she loved it: she was getting breakfast in bed, overcoming her fear of riding a horse for the first time, and being treated like "a queen" by the man's family.
