Sentence examples for was surmounted from inspiring English sources
verb
To get over; to overcome
His domed head was surmounted by long, thick, prematurely white hair.
Ten thousand veterans were now sent back to Macedonia with gifts, and the crisis was surmounted.
The last years of her reign were an anticlimax, for the moment the international danger was surmounted, domestic strife ensued.
It was, rather, when we saw, strolling down Fifth Avenue in the 40's, a boulevardier whose attire was surmounted by a bronz derby.
The roof was surmounted by a high circular stupa mounted on an octagonal drum, the faces of which bear reliefs of divinities.
A photograph of the president, caught in a moment when his expression resembled that of a rabid dog, was surmounted by the headline, "George Bush, Polluter of the Free World".
This problem is now being surmounted.
Hills and human bodies are problems to be surmounted.
But it's impossible to deny that another barrier has been surmounted.
There are still real balance sheet problems that have to be surmounted.
