Sentence examples for she surmounted from inspiring English sources

She surmounted all this, in addition to the well-known problems of her childhood –a mother in a mental institution, a father she never knew, and moving between foster homes and an orphanage.

Had she surmounted the Dugdale Dilemma?

However, she surmounts an overstretched motif with an oddness and richness of language, a tilting of reality at times reminiscent of Jeanette Winterson's skew-whiff vision in Lighthousekeeping, that delights with its virtuosity.

She never surmounted those obstacles, and Mr. Bush withdrew her nomination.

After what she had surmounted, her 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 victoverover Lyndsay Shosho of Williamsville East in the Oct. 30 final seemed almost anticlimactic.

For one so young, she has surmounted many challenges.

She is surmounted by an incubus that peers out at the viewer.

Having overcome poverty to raise her nine-year-old disabled daughter after the death of her husband – all while living with HIV/AIDS – Barbara felt she could surmount any challenge.

When I asked about the hard times, and how they were surmounted, she and Eileen spoke about the almost magical intervention of a woman named Susan Schor, who arrived as if from Mt. Olympus, though she actually only came from Pace University.

If I had to face the challenges she had already surmounted with such bravery, would I survive?

She has some obstacles to surmount, however: She has never raced at Chantilly and she has never gone farther than a mile, or 1,600 meters; the distance of the Prix de Diane is 2,100 meters.