How To Use Overdrive In A Sentence

My heart would palpitate and sweat glands shift into overdrive.
With all due respect to his sincerely held if abstractly formed views on this subject, it would be reckless to require the military to carry out a major sociological change, one contrary to the preferences of a large majority of its members, as it fights two wars," wrote the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol. the support of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen, conservative fearmongering about the potential effects of repeal have gone into overdrive with suggestions that the policy change would "mortally" damage the all-volunteer military. RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
I'm surprised the backlash overdrive hasn't kicked in solely on the possibility that it's a Scientology-is-bad flick. Universal Passes on PT Anderson’s Scientology Picture; Jeremy Renner Still Circling Role | /Film
The hardest part is definitely being in a minority opinion, then having to work on overdrive trying to persuade others to your way of thinking. Times, Sunday Times
With just a few months before the bill receives royal assent, lobbying from all sides is in overdrive. Times, Sunday Times

Get the gears out of overdrive, and only then will you really thrive.
Immune cells within the brain go into overdrive, churning out substances that attract more immune cells, and white blood cells from the body flood in and join the fray, all clumping together to form destructive entities known as multinucleated giant cells. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
The official propaganda machine went into overdrive when war broke out.
Conclusion:Atrial overdrive can prevent AF, which may results from accelerating interatrial conduction, inhibiting atrial premature beat, eliminating sinus bradycardia and long short interval.
The Vette scores well in highway fuel consumption, owing to tall and taller overdrives. Dustbury.com » The one-way hourglass
It was such a simple question, but I had never been asked anything of the sort and it sent me into an overdrive.
While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first. The Line Of Best Fit
But it hasn't curbed my appetite… it's almost like it's been sent into overdrive.
When it comes to concern for the effect of intervention on the locals, doublethink can really go into overdrive.
It strikes when the immune system goes into overdrive trying to heal injury or infection - and can be deadly. The Sun
It offers smooth shifts and a wide spread of ratios that ideally suit the engine's characteristics - including a tall overdrive fifth gear for quiet, efficient highway cruising.
Beyond this the EVB3 also incorporates three tube overdrives with different tonal characteristics, an equalizer, a wah wah and a reverberation effect. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
However, during the few weeks when a trip to Kazakhstan remained a possibility, the football branch of our journalistic fraternity went into overdrive.
I heard Haji Lane also got sell, someone told me there overdrives, you can take a look, but no guarantee, me ish never been there before isit? Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
Present Gabrielle with a simple query and her mouth goes into overdrive.
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They went into overdrive, portraying her as a gold-digging divorcee.
My own brain is always in overdrive, I see everything, I overanalyse everything, I don't miss a trick, I see the hate everywhere. Genocides are no surprise in a world built on hate
It strikes when the immune system goes into overdrive trying to heal injury or infection - and can be deadly. The Sun
Music needs a kick from something other than a badly played overdriven guitar.
Companies like HNC -- which makes software that "learns" how to spot money launderers and bioterror microbes -- have shifted into overdrive since the terrorist attack. Technology: A High-Tech Home Front
Most automatic transmission cars will have an overdrive button right on the gearshift.
Perhaps in people with a genetic predisposition, the trigger sends the immune system into permanent overdrive and disarray.
The manual box is pretty nifty, but heavy to select reverse, and the overdrive sixth and high fifth gears mean it depends on left wrist exercise.
OverDrive throttles the core clock speed to get maximum performance while staying under a maximum allowable temperature.
Tall overdrive ratios also improve mileage ratings in EPA highway-cycle tests.
This gently warped lyricism is soon displaced by ‘electric candyland,’ which is filled with distorted rumbling and overdriven guitar noises ranging from howls to sci-fi lab pulses and whines.
Overdrive gears improve the fuel economy of your car during highway driving.
The home crowd then went into overdrive as James Clark notched a further goal to establish a deserved 13-5 half-time lead.
Frieze Art Fair and other openingsIt's Frieze week, which means that London's art world is in overdrive as a rush of exhibitions open at museums, galleries and one-off venues. This week's new exhibitions
It strikes when the immune system goes into overdrive trying to heal injury or infection - and can be deadly. The Sun
The media went into overdrive at least a week in advance with daily warnings about the ‘big freeze’ to come.
In my third year, the overdrive was limited, and we had to rev the cars up to 9,500 rpm.
Seymour Duncan and Electro-harmonix we used various tube pedals such as a couple of overdrives, reverbs, stereo delays and tremolos and compressors. Metal Underground.com
It is the sound of an overdriven guitar squall tamed by an expert musician into stunning walls of noise.
And, for arguably the first time in an intriguing season, the mind games were going into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
Days after the wedding, the mania went into overdrive.
It was a daring bet, but we put our delegate operation into overdrive, and in the last week of May we turned over a list of twenty-one hundred delegates to Rob Gunnison, a political reporter and chief delegate counter for UPI. The Good Fight
Then again, I probably wouldn't have been able to hear much ukulele over Johnson's overdriven polyrhythms and unusual Dorian modes.
It was especially interesting to see how these minions went into overdrive after the recent Loyalist riots.
He leads the rhythms out on to the runway and, stamping a sonic overdrive button at his feet, fires the booster rockets. Times, Sunday Times
Sub-Ministry industrial grind is a favorite, though overdriven drum machines have never signified "postapocalyptic" to anybody but self-pitying goth kids with hyperactive imaginations. Chicago Reader
The car then inherited some of the running gear of the TR4, such as the all synchro gearbox and Laycock overdrive.
‘Vanishing Point’ thrusts Technique into overdrive, with its epic production and searching lyrics - this is prog rock crossed with synth-pop.
Much horsefoolery, swashbuckling and romance commence, soundtracked by Bachman Turner Overdrive.
The original three-speed standard transmission has been upgraded to a 700R four-speed automatic transmission with an overdrive lock-up converter.
The rumour mill went into overdrive and the identity of her alleged attacker was said to be a well-known secret in London's close-knit television community.
Many Sunday papers went into overdrive with special editions and extensive coverage charting her long life.
The lack of a significant damping factor is one reason vintage amps sounded so rich on the bottom and so relaxed when overdriven.
The hardest part is definitely being in a minority opinion, then having to work on overdrive trying to persuade others to your way of thinking. Times, Sunday Times
If I like the second book as well, then, depending on how much I like the two books, I go into different overdrives. Confused of calcutta
Sally's problem, however, was with her overdrive transmission.
And he was quickly into overdrive in yesterday 's final round to leave his rivals trailing in his slipstream. The Sun
Third provides direct drive and fourth an overdrive, driving through a new two-piece propshaft to a 3.07:1 rear axle.
As the music reached a crescendo, our instructor went into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
The Chelsea fans were now in overdrive as their team pressed for the all-important second. The Sun
Alternating between smoothly intoned mid-tempo rockers- dressed up with synth organs and tastefully overdriven guitar jangle- and smoothly intoned slow dance heart warmers that get a lot closer to Diane Warren territory than befits the man who wrote "Silver".
You have a bathroom full of oils, unguents and miracle products that you are always forgetting to use, but now is the time to go into high-maintenance overdrive.
With just a few months before the bill receives royal assent, lobbying from all sides is in overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
British band Florence and the Machine perform, with a harp and a guitar and Florence singing some kind of folk number while wearing a long flowing robe thinggummy and standing in a spotlight while dancers pop up on circular pedestals set in the audience, and then begin to gyrate and flap their arms around, then dancing around Florence while the fog machine goes into overdrive until everyone gets the point: It's Druid Disco. 'The Situation' bids 'Dancing With the Stars' a classy farewell as he's eliminated
Sprint has launched the EVO, it's been in the market now for a number of months, and we still can't ship them enough overdrives. Networking Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
But the European regulations kicked the effort into overdrive.
As the music reached a crescendo, our instructor went into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
When you use overdrive on the highway, the car's engine speed decreases, reducing the amount of fuel used.
Special effects (reverb, overdrive, wah-wah, and fuzz, for example) may be added by pedals plugged between the instrument and the amplifier.
We're talking five-minute patches of overdriven Moog, bass-thumping and off-time drumbeats.
And he was quickly into overdrive in yesterday 's final round to leave his rivals trailing in his slipstream. The Sun
As I write this, the game of chicken is in maximum overdrive.
Now operating under color of authority, the 515 was put in overdrive.
His forte is that he can dismiss inferior opponents without engaging overdrive, the gear that does so much to dim the appetite for future struggles. Times, Sunday Times
No Country for Old Men offers much more hard-driving suspense than any of McCarthy's previous works; in fact the plot's motor is so overdriven that one tends to read too fast to savor the writerly nuances.
A variable speed automatic transmission with overdrive is standard.
Will's already overactive imagination trips into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
I thought I was doing quite well until late yesterday evening it became clear that my heart was not at all happy with the heat, and I had an uncomfortable half hour while it went into overdrive in protest.
The manual box is pretty nifty, but heavy to select reverse, and the overdrive sixth and high fifth gears mean it depends on left wrist exercise.
Entertainment Weekly's Tom Sinclair wrote, "Media mavens, from the tackiest tabloid reporter to the nattiest network news anchor, are in overdrive scrambling to fill column inches and airtime with Jacko scoops and talking heads. Charles Thomson: One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History
Bruised and shaken, sweating like an overdriven horse, she imagined how pleasant it would be to lie down in the garbage and go to sleep.
It's a simple song that combines a on-the-verge-of-being-overdriven bassline with a simple rhythmic piano sample.
Standard for this trim is the 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive.
We will be smarter; we will be a “populace stuck in overdrive, searching out the last bits of competitive advantage.” Letters to the Editor
She flawlessly depicts a girl on the edge whose rebellion, in overdrive, is fueling self-destructive behavior.
It strikes when the immune system goes into overdrive trying to heal injury or infection - and can be deadly. The Sun
It was navy blue with fake wood grain paneling and all the options: power windows, power seats, a cassette player, and a 2.8 liter EFI V-6 with overdrive. January 2005
How … Sources: Obama, Dems to hold informal talks on health care (CNN) Health talks in overdrive, eyes on [...] Matthew Yglesias » Was Health Reform a Political Blunder? How Could We Know?
The Republicans are in overdrive trying to derail the health care bill even though we clearly need it. Senate pushes to pass bill by holiday
A clip-release position simulates an overdriven electronic distortion that could work for guitars or synths.
So much so that the work seemed overdriven, overgeneralised and overblown. Times, Sunday Times
The Pogues were so punk they didn't need overdriven guitar, breakneck drumming or discontented lyrics.
The manual box is pretty nifty, but heavy to select reverse, and the overdrive sixth and high fifth gears mean it depends on left wrist exercise.
If the brain tells the nervous system that it has to cope with excessive demand, the sympathetic nervous system switches into overdrive. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
It would be all too easy to go into activity overdrive to try to cram in as much as possible during a visit, particularly given the impossibly long summer days.
Troops are ready to go into overdrive as soon as the signal is given
As the music reached a crescendo, our instructor went into overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
My mind sped on overdrive for the next week as summer came looming.
They've got this one organ sound that mimics a growling, overdriven axe with startling fidelity, and which, along with the deep waves of the low end, ballasts the mutant barrelhouse boogie.
They scored only one point in the remaining minutes while Mayo went into overdrive.
Swindon went into Comic Relief overdrive as hundreds of people raised money for charity.
It strikes when the immune system goes into overdrive trying to heal injury or infection - and can be deadly. The Sun
Overdrive pacing might improve cardiac function, and thus pulmonary congestion might be ameliorated in patients with heart failure or bradycardia.
In the courtroom everybody went into overdrive, assuming that there might well be a verdict soon.
The transmissions will also generally run cooler under a heavy load if you shift down one gear out of overdrive.
His forte is that he can dismiss inferior opponents without engaging overdrive, the gear that does so much to dim the appetite for future struggles. Times, Sunday Times
A ravishing dessert tray is proffered after every meal, and selections range from fruit-inspired sweets to insulin-overdrive chocolate concoctions.
The neck humbucker is very clear and bluesy, and has a nice full sound when overdriven.
The so-called sherpas - government fixers who pave the way for agreement when their leaders gather - went into overdrive, using the myriad rooms of the Gleneagles Hotel to reconstitute disagreements into compromises.
Set positively awhirl by the choreographer, the show opens in overdrive.
‘Timing constraints threw this program into overdrive,’ he says.
His forte is that he can dismiss inferior opponents without engaging overdrive, the gear that does so much to dim the appetite for future struggles. Times, Sunday Times
So faced with an uncertain future, a part of which was ultimately death, my mind went into overdrive.
That engine power is then transferred to the wheels by means of a 4-speed automatic transmission with overdrive and a lock-up torque converter.
With national support now ramping up for Brown and the Brown Brigade kicking in overdrive results are going to change quickly in favor of brown. Rasmussen: Coakley/Brown 50/41. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Your mysophobia is in overdrive - if you 'hover' at home I would think that would just be inviting more germs rather than sitting and giving yourself a little bit of a seal. Stuff My Wife Says That Disturbs Me
The band is obsessed by the music of Rhythm and Blues, with its contagious grooves, boogie piano, sax riffs and overdriven guitar solos.
Most automatic transmission cars will have an overdrive button right on the gearshift.
The max depth of the Hippo chorus sort of overdrove the moogerfooger delay, especially on the loop feedback & gain (there's a multiplication effect there that could shred speakers), said overdrive creating a sort of vaguely pulsating & irregular rumbling undertone like a time-modulated distortion (hmm, see if Zachary Vex might do a Seek-Fuzz?) The voice of storms
Ever since the dissolution of Parliament and the announcement of the Kuwaiti elections (to be held May 16) bloggers have been in overdrive posting about the ongoing drama and the cynicism concerning our upcoming elections (our third in four years). Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Election rhetoric, arrests and the whole shebang
Melissa's brain was in overdrive
We ran out of town yesterday afternoon and evening for a graduation ceremony, and it was a lot of fun, but I think sitting outside in cedar country caused my allergies to go into overdrive. May 19th, 2006
Social media leapt into overdrive: would a true conservative really wear such flamboyant footwear? Times, Sunday Times
Now operating under color of authority, the 515 was put in overdrive.
"The Storm" is less successful, pairing overdriven marching band percussion with layers of indistinguishable distorted noise.
A penalty put the visitors back to within one goal as the teams went into overdrive.
They always sound 120% fantastic all the time on all the settings and all different types of distortions, overdrives, fuzzes and cleans. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
That motor was in overdrive as Sablikova crossed the finish line in 6 minutes, 50.91 seconds in the final pair. Canada's Hughes bows out with bronze; Sablikova takes gold
It is available in either a five speed manual or an electronically controlled four speed auto with electric overdrive.
Also known as blood poisoning, sepsis occurs when the body's normal reaction to an infection goes into overdrive, even in patients with weak immune systems. Faster Care for Blood Infection
There's a bass hiding in there, peeking out from behind the overdriven rhythm guitars and ponderously formless solos like a shy mammal trying not to be seen.
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There was a time in my life when I still believed that a crunchy riff from an overdriven guitar amplifier signified something elemental and fierce.
Asylum-seeker hysteria went into overdrive last week in England.
Meinertzhagen went into overdrive, working day and night to persuade staff and clients to stay.
The official propaganda machine went into overdrive when war broke out.
Switching on the overdrive channel, however, gave immediate access to the right stuff.
Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition; and he was raised so high above the mass of his fellow creatures that their distresses excited in him only a languid pity, such as that with which we regard the sufferings of the inferior animals, of a famished redbreast or of an overdriven posthorse. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
My creativity, while not on overdrive, is still humming, and I think this would help me, if nothing else, give some structure to some ideas jumping around in my head. Monday Assessment
A four speed automatic with overdrive and lockup torque converter comes standard with the petrol engine.
Perhaps in people with a genetic predisposition, the trigger sends the immune system into permanent overdrive and disarray.
His trademark was a rare combination of quickness and power, but last season the motor never shifted into overdrive and Russell too often was stalemated by what seemed to be inferior talent.
The fifth gear is an overdrive ratio - very economic on longer runs - so the Tino reaches its maximum speed of 110 mph in fourth gear.
If the brain tells the nervous system that it has to cope with excessive demand, the sympathetic nervous system switches into overdrive. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
Perhaps in people with a genetic predisposition, the trigger sends the immune system into permanent overdrive and disarray.
Most automatic transmission cars will have an overdrive button right on the gearshift.
With her desperate flight, the film surges into powerful, stomach-churning overdrive. 'Inglourious Basterds' wages a thrilling, powerful war
A big, rumbling beat joins with a wobbly bass line so overdriven it sounds on the verge of collapse.
If the answer to both questions is yes, then companies are well advised to go into collective overdrive; if it is no, then they can experiment with more nuanced responses, such as lopping off a tainted product or sacrificing a rogue division. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
As Ireland went into overdrive after the break, it was hard to believe they had been involved in such a scrap earlier on.
If the brain tells the nervous system that it has to cope with excessive demand, the sympathetic nervous system switches into overdrive. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
A ravishing dessert tray is proffered after every meal, and selections range from fruit-inspired sweets to insulin-overdrive chocolate concoctions.
The captain unstrapped himself as Maura horsed the engines into overdrive.
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That might explain the explosion of campiness and glamour overdrive on the runway. Nicole Berrie: Is Marc Jacobs Bored?
Switching on the overdrive channel, however, gave immediate access to the right stuff.
While the gin bottles diminished at an ever-increasing rate in the living-room, the dishwasher went into overdrive in the kitchen.
It's gone on for so long now that I really can't remember when it started, although I suppose that if I cast my mind back everything probably went into overdrive at the end of August.
Third provides direct drive and fourth an overdrive, driving through a new two-piece propshaft to a 3.07:1 rear axle.
The machine in her mind switched gears and ground into overdrive.
The parts of your personality that Freya corresponds to have been sent into overdrive, for lack of a better explanation. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 7: BLUE MOON
His forte is that he can dismiss inferior opponents without engaging overdrive, the gear that does so much to dim the appetite for future struggles. Times, Sunday Times
Humans overfish the seas, overgraze the meadows, overpollute the air, and overdrive the highways. WoW to open for-pay character transfers soon?
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Unlike other six-speeders, this box doesn't provide an overdrive sixth gear that's pretty well useless at anything under 160 km/h.
In the courtroom everybody went into overdrive, assuming that there might well be a verdict soon.
The great singing actress's face contorts in contradictory directions; the fingers claw palpable holes into the air; the body coils and uncoils; the legs are in overdrive.
She always goes into overdrive ( ie starts working very hard ) before the holidays.
With just a few months before the bill receives royal assent, lobbying from all sides is in overdrive. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the latter part of the 1990's the markets surged ahead, generating untold wealth for some people as all stocks went into overdrive.
Not a powerful car, even in its day, with only 57 kW on tap, it was designed for the freeways and had an overdrive transmission feature to reduce engine revs by 25 percent.

How To Use Overdrive In A Sentence

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