How To Use overmaster In A Sentence
- Various sportive young matrons of his acquaintance‥certainly felt no overmastering desire to keep their husbands at their sides.
- The first impression of all, overmastering everything else for a while, is the frightful, deafening din from the conveyor belt which carries the coal away. Down the Mine
- Aromatic logs would be burned under the windows of the rich to overmaster the stench that penetrated the city.
- One thing, however, can be said with reasonable confidence: throughout his life Aristotle was driven by one overmastering desire - the desire for knowledge.
- Add to this, great pride of character, so closely curtained as to be almost searchless to herself, with a passion for adventure and novel achievements, and she has in all an amount of temptation to poor human nature that can be overmastered only by strong conflicts and strong faith. The Grimke Sisters
- Everything is made subordinate to the overmastering dictates of war.
- The life-story perspective reveals a common presentation in patients who have been demoralized and overmastered by circumstances.
- The threat of death won't overmaster me.
- It's a weakness of mine, I admit, that my judgment is often overmastered by passion.
- Presumably they have all left their warm beds at the compulsion of some overmastering motive: duty, ambition, or fear of poverty.
