Sentence examples for were overcoming from inspiring English sources
verb
To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
- To overcome enemies in battle
Last night officials offered few details on how the two sides were overcoming their many differences.
In challenging former President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq, they showed they were overcoming their deep post-Vietnam fear of being painted as weak on defense when taking a strong anti-war stance.
In a news conference from space earlier today, the three crew members said they were overcoming their grief over the loss of friends on Columbia and would be willing to extend their planned four-month stay to a year, if necessary, to help the project.
The main difficulties encountered were overcoming the mud caused by unusually heavy rains and finding sufficient water supplies.
To assess whether by using VSV-G-pseudotyped HIV-1 vectors we were overcoming an entry defect in Jurkat knockdown clones, similar experiments were performed with a gp120-pseudotyped lentiviral vector.
Response times were also prolonged on decisions to commit, as if participants were overcoming a default tendency to defer (F 1,19) = 77.9, p < 0.0001).
His relatives were overcome.
Others were overcome by emotion.
Hull were overrun before they were overcome.
My doubts were overcome by several things.
At least this week, they were overcome.
