Sentence examples for overmaster from inspiring English sources

Nature demanded that the higher races overmaster and starve the lower.

"It is a way to overmaster yourself," she said, as three young men wearing crosses whooped behind her — "It's warm!

But Jonsson trained as a chef before going to work as a lawyer, and the itch to climb into an apron and get behind the stove has overmastered him: hence the admirable move from commenting and advising to having a go himself.

He arranges his figures in the hostile landscape so that they seem overmastered by it; then he holds the shots longer than expected, until menace builds up in the surrounding silence and our nerves are close to snapping.

Local resistance movements, insofar as they survived the far harsher German reprisals, would be overmastered by the Soviets.

Here, at the 11th hour, he is more regretful about his overmastering, though obviously masterful, early lust.