Sentence examples for threatened to overwhelm from inspiring English sources

The feud threatened to overwhelm the parade itself.

Professor Dutton ended the contest after the annual turgid torrent threatened to overwhelm all concerned.

Bolt and Powell both understood the gravity of emotion that threatened to overwhelm the Wolmer's teenager.

But by 2012 Falciani's revelations and other pressures threatened to overwhelm the Swiss resistance to transparency.

At times, Mr. Camilo's fulsome pianism also threatened to overwhelm the general dynamics of the duo.

Retro controllers and 8-bit typefaces were so abundant they threatened to overwhelm my collection.

For a time, her interest in production threatened to overwhelm the process of writing.

Some fans became disgruntled as soap opera threatened to overwhelm her serial killers.

In secondary school, I reread the books when school exam stress threatened to overwhelm me.

At the conclusion of the trilogy, a human law court settles an issue that threatened to overwhelm the gods themselves.

The stocks of European banks, which the crisis had threatened to overwhelm, bounced back by as much as 25 percent.