Sentence examples for surmount by from inspiring English sources

This is also the book of someone who has never met a challenge she couldn't surmount by working harder and believing in herself.

Adding in superdelegates brings Clinton's pre-New York total to 1,758 delegates and Sanders to 1,076 -- a deficit that was already nearly impossible for him to overcome, but one he hopes to surmount by winning the pledged delegate count and swaying the superdelegates to come his way.

She wore figure-hugging black surmounted by flowing Miyake capes.

Stumpy piers were surmounted by serpentine, Celtic-style ornament, just like that of the Tower Building.

His domed head was surmounted by long, thick, prematurely white hair.

Its shape is puzzling -- a stalk surmounted by three arms decorated with what look like finials.

The church was conceived as a single volume, a square base surmounted by a truncated cone.

He was buried in Gao, under a pyramid of earth surmounted by wooden spikes.

Two gilded infants support the clock, which is surmounted by a happy Cupid.

We passed a small window, which looked out onto a wall surmounted by concertina wire.

They resemble spinal columns surmounted by bells, and writing goes down the middle.