How To Use Overpowering In A Sentence

He wasn't a large man, and had never been the sporty type, so there were no golf clubs or baseball bats lying handily around, and the notion of overpowering a hulking burglar with the meagre physical means at his disposal was laughable. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The typical concrete edge, the unhealthy pollution caused by too much sliced white bread and the overpowering dominance of aggressive species such as Canada geese and coots combine to turn them into lifeless wet deserts.
There's an overpowering smell of garlic in the kitchen.
The scent is strong but not overpowering and the cream sinks in fast.
I attended with some positive anticipation, because the Poulenc Concerto, along with the Camille Saint-Sa'ns Symphony No. 3 avec orgue (with organ), have always seemed highly imaginative examples of gifted composers managing to craft beautiful and meaningful, even reflective statements for the mighty and potentially overpowering instrument. Undefined

Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount. How I Found Livingstone
But the sadness was overpowering at times.
This subtle citrusy scent is not overpowering but is strong enough to attract a summer romance. The Sun
Kozel yelled, and the shuttle decelerated rapidly, for a moment overpowering the inertial dampers. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
Lady Kicklebury wears a front, and, I make no doubt, a complete jasey; or she certainly would have let down her back hair at this minute, so overpowering were her feelings, and so bitter her indignation at her daughter's black ingratitude. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
Only one should be the star, otherwise the effect is too overpowering. The Sun
The stench coming off the ship was quite overpowering.
I suggested that maybe the spiciness of the Merguez may be overpowering it, because the Emmental certainly gave my own crepe it's nutty distinct flavour.
The only reason that we were being beaten so badly was the drow were overpowering us with their teamwork.
Television advertising is overpoweringly loud and often trite and tasteless, particularly those awful ads for motorcars.
It may be loud and overpowering, but at least it sounds good.
I find it overpoweringly beautiful — really. I love it, but it makes my head explode to the extent that I can scarcely read it.
The desire for revenge can be overpowering.
On the palate it has an overpowering spiciness.
For a gentleman there are only two decorous states , absolute poverty or overpowering wealth.
The ten songs of loud and beautiful orchestral pop contained in the Montreal sextet's label debut should make them bigger than French toast, but is unlikely to inspire followers to their overpowering yet impeccably constructed sound.
It offers the drinker not an overpowering smack of peat, but a delicious honeyed, floral sweetness.
It does not need overpowering with strong flavours, although it can handle them well enough. Food Watch
Heavily perfumed nose, almost overpowering, with a dominance of apricot and peach blossom.
He's suffering from overpowering feelings of guilt.
But in either case the better and more exact way is to distinguish, as I have done, the one or two which are true forms, and to regard the others as perversions, whether of the most perfectly attempered mode or of the best form of government: we may compare the severer and more overpowering modes to the oligarchical forms, and the more relaxed and gentler ones to the democratic. Politics
He said it inspired a sense of the sublime - the massive, overpowering effect of awe demanded by something bigger and stronger than we are.
He burst onto the scene last year and showed he can control his overpowering fastball.
Frequent interrupting and talking over others Useful overpowering tactic.
I can still see the frost patterns on my bedroom window and remember the overpowering feeling of not wanting to lift my leg from under the sheet. Times, Sunday Times
Despite their diminutive size they give off a lively all-round sound with decent but not overpowering bass. Times, Sunday Times
Lisa Ling recalls the overpowering emotion when American couples in China meet their adopted daughters for the first time. WN.com - Articles related to Japan wants to exit from aid politics as China muscles in
A bosquet of climbing heliotrope close by threw a fragrance into the evening air, which turned her giddy with its overpowering sweetness. The Elusive Pimpernel
I quickly find noise and clamour and small talk overpowering. Times, Sunday Times
Also, on days when the tides and wind are just right, the stench is overpowering. Venice | My[confined]Space
Cut to a Broadway theater, where the blackfaced hero sings ‘Mammy’ in a style at once cantorial and operatic, at an energy level that is overpowering.
Most compelling are her songs that capture the essence of saudade, which has no exact translation to English but can be described as the overpowering nostalgia and yearning for something which is gone. Buzzine » Mariza
I quickly find noise and clamour and small talk overpowering. Times, Sunday Times
Too dry, candied fruit is overpowering. The Sun
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Still even this amount will help alleviate the banging techno on the temples and the overpowering, unfightable, desire to die.
Yet, the gesture was filling him with an emotion totally different from the previous night, overpowering the anger and annoyance.
The need to paint, for me, is to try to control overpowering emotional forces.
The service is quick, courteous and attentive without becoming overpowering.
The music is so overpowering at times that the film seems more like a pop video than a piece of cinema.
Always in harmony with the original flavours, never overpowering them.
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With grapefruit, petitgrain and neroli, it's bright and citrussy without being overpowering. Times, Sunday Times
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When firefighters arrived they were struck by the overpowering smell of petrol. Times, Sunday Times
Motivated by an evolutionary Force ... this integral activism (i.e. Enlightenment Virus - ed.) effectively reunites the once-polarized paths of peace and power; invoking an invincible evolutionary dynamic that acts directly, vibrationally upon the body, cellular and terrestrial; not simply overpowering from without but setting up a resonance that" agitates "the" particles "of consciousness in the surrounding material field. Triggering the Enlightenment Virus
The stench of burning rubber was overpowering.
Also the music is so overpowering at times that the film seems more like a pop video than a piece of cinema.
The characteristic and distinctive sights, sounds and smells were overpowering.
He felt an overpowering desire to slap her.
Nor is nemesis, the overpowering sense of eventual destruction, far from the political lives of these players.
Presented with the most sublime, savage and overpowering rock performances of all time, the British slouched sulkily back to their houses.
It remains an overpowering moment, delivered with the manic energy of a preacher.
The flavour of the star anise adds to the plums, rather than overpowering them. Times, Sunday Times
The air was filled with the overpowering stench of decomposing vegetation.
These Shakers were convinced of the unique and overpowering rightness of their religion.
Standing next to this man was an overpowering experience: he exhaled an odor of the strongest musk cologne and he spoke so gravely, so calculatedly, that it was hard to handle his physical presence. Vacation
He was never blessed with an overpowering fastball; his four-seamer is clocked between 88-91 mph, and his two-seamer a little below that. USATODAY.com - Is D'backs' duo better than Koufax and Drysdale?
Nor was it the overpowering smell or the rodents scurrying around just out of sight. Times, Sunday Times
There was an overpowering smell of burning tyres.
Oversize posters foreshorten and ameliorate the overpowering, tunnel-like perspective.
The boy soon saw him reappear behind the sharp rock-wall that jutted out into the valley, rubbing crushed pine-needles upon himself with the idea of overpowering the human odor, although, whether effective in its purpose or not, it was not necessary -- a strong up-wind from deer to man making it impossible that they could scent him. The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch
It offers the drinker not an overpowering smack of peat, but a delicious honeyed, floral sweetness.
Lamb is a miraculous meat, robustly withstanding strong flavours, showcasing subtler vibes without overpowering them, brightened by fruit, bouncing off tomato, enlivened by herbs.
the cheaper end of the market was flooded with wine that had been aged for too long in oak barrels, giving it an overpowering oaky taste. Times, Sunday Times
Nor was it the overpowering smell or the rodents scurrying around just out of sight. Times, Sunday Times
Bardo's flowery body stench and his beery breath were so overpowering THE BROKEN GOD
There was an overpowering smell of burning tyres.
The sadness is overpowering, like all-day darkness of a winter polar station.
The scent is light and kind of minty, with a cool feeling to it, not an overpowering smell. Shaving Stuff
To keep the drums from becoming overpowering onstage and in the mix, they were muted with a set of SoundOff drum set silencers.
Motors, relays, generators, or simply other magnets or magnetic materials, can all also cause the pointer to move, overpowering the Earth's magnetism.
But in the final laps of a close race, friends and family fade to black against the overpowering compulsion to win.
The junior quarterback threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more and No. 5 West Virginia rolled up 599 total yards in overpowering East Carolina 48-7 on Saturday. USATODAY.com - College Football - East Carolina vs. West Virginia
Bile was burning my mouth, my throat and chest were so tight, the nausea was overpowering.
Burmese or cayenne, paprika, chiles or pastes, such as harissa, is present but not by any means overpowering. WN.com - Articles related to Lindsay Lohan prompts on-air battle
So overpowering is her strange work routine that Mandakini, who goes by the name Mandy when she's on duty, finds that her work persona often invades her personal life. Boing Boing: October 20, 2002 - October 26, 2002 Archives
These were full of the last of the foxgloves and the sickly, overpowering waft of the mysterious stinkhorn fungus. How to get back to nature when camping
These overpowering urges are ruining my weight-loss efforts!
With every dish, I strive to achieve a balance of flavours, enhancing the individual tastes and textures of ingredients without masking or overpowering any of them.
The intense scent is almost overpowering in a small room on a warm day.
This actually has some cheese flavour and the egg custard is well made, but it's full of too many overpowering chives.
The wallpaper was an overpowering red tartan, the carpet brown with red flowers. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
Why didn ` t they smell when they visited his home, this odor that ` s been described as overpowering to the entire neighborhood? CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009
Marcy felt her breath quicken, her heartbeat accelerate and crescendo in her ears to an overpowering drone.
With its fresh, cheese-stuffed pasta shells drizzled with a sauce that is rich but not overpowering, these miniature crescents are very tasty indeed.
It's dense, moist, and full of flavor, the pumpkin undertone allows the cinnamon and chocolate chips to compliment each other without overpowering one another. Archive 2008-11-01
He is not particularly fast or overpowering, but he has great instincts and never loses sight of the quarterback during the rush.
So overpowering was it that it was easy to discover the source a mass of putrescent matter on the doorstep which in general outlines resembled a dog. Moon Face:The Shadow and the Flash
The aura of poverty, corruption, and urban decay is overpowering.
The sublimity is so overpowering as naturally to prompt the exclamation that if the divine steeds were to leap thus twice in succession they would pass beyond the confines of the world. On the Sublime
With regard to these wretched, horrible, bloody lumps of caramel gunge, he had constructed a whole covert, hidden, humiliating world of pretence and lies, sneaking around pharmacies and stores to find his fix, inventing a serious disease for himself to cover an addiction as compelling and overpowering as if it had been heroin that enslaved him. Portobello
He felt an overpowering desire to slap her.
His expression touching bewilderment, he nevertheless returned my mother's overpowering embrace with a smile and genuine goodbye.
Above all, it is rich with the overpowering detail of heavily researched cultural history.
The austerity of that moment is overpowering.
Some cheesecakes are too tangy from the cheese, and others are lost under the overpowering flavors of the ingredients either added or poured on top. Mini Pumpkin Cheesecake Pan and a Giveaway! | Baking Bites
The most unusual panna cotta recipe I come across is from the Irish chef Denis Cotter, who uses sheep's yoghurt and carrageen, otherwise known as Irish moss, in his recipe in Wild Garlic, Gooseberries and Me – "yoghurt makes it richer and creamier," he explains, "as well as masking the potentially overpowering flavour of the carrageen itself. How to cook perfect panna cotta
The lack of an overpowering pitch will cost him.
As he fled, he saw that similar scuffles were taking place on the roofs opposite, where other outriding Alwari were overpowering his remaining snipers. The Cat is a Metaphor
Despite their diminutive size they give off a lively all-round sound with decent but not overpowering bass. Times, Sunday Times
Lady Kicklebury wears a front, and, I make no doubt, a complete jasey; or she certainly would have let down her back hair at this minute, so overpowering were her feelings, and so bitter her indignation at her daughter’s black ingratitude. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
I can still recall the overpowering smell from all those leaves.
Here is a typha ... here an alisma; and by the overpowering perfume, this, I know, is the acacia flower. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
They amplified simple stories with such emotional reverberations that they became elemental and overpowering, like a force of nature.
The dialogue is strong and the music not overpowering.
When she duets at various points throughout the album with the doom-voiced Simon Topping, the dourness is almost overpowering, and yet they seem to complement each other perfectly.
The reek of moral decay is overpowering and has set in across the rainbow nation.
It was such an overpowering feeling.
An overpowering sense of disconnection is taking me over.
Around her is the faint scent of trilia and erhenflower, a combination much gentler than erhenflower alone, and not as overpoweringly sweet as trilia alone. The Magi'i Of Cyador
But he did it with a trademark smarm and overpowering obnoxiousness that left Giblets coming back for more!
The broth was a little too buttery, with some slightly overpowering raw garlic dominating the flavour.
Then there was the overpowering smell.
Bardo's flowery body stench and his beery breath were so overpowering THE BROKEN GOD
From these suppositions, with many other of like import, it is evident that there is a pregnant, strong, overpowering propension in all true believers to walk holily and to live righteously: so that to refrain sinning in the kind intended is no such great mastery, no such matter of difficulty, unto such men; and that when they are overcome and fall into sin, it is through a mere voluntary neglect. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Beardies also love to race around and play with each other and other dogs and will often appear very overpowering.
I can still see the frost patterns on my bedroom window and remember the overpowering feeling of not wanting to lift my leg from under the sheet. Times, Sunday Times
She sat on one of her white sofas, with a posy of waxy-white overpoweringly scented stephanotis in a bowl beside her, and took Amy's hands. THE WHITE DOVE
Description: Dwyer did not have an overpowering fastball … But he could ‘distribute an assortment of variegated curves, elipses, hyperbolae and parabolae with … judgement,’ according to a St. Louis writer. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
She had an overpowering urge to cry which she bridled.
The resulting stench can be overpowering: One eighteenth-century account described “pox that were so rotten and poisonous that the flesh fell off . . . in pieces full of evil-smelling beasties.” The Panic Virus
The guy was dynamic, overpowering.
The third option was that there was a slight chance of me overpowering him whilst he was bent double laughing at my camping pyjamas: Ron Hill jogging bottoms, a stripy jumper and a bobble hat.
In my anxiety I got a much earlier train, and when I changed onto the branch line was afflicted with almost overpowering excitement at this journey into the remote past.
The Gorgonzola united the whole dish without making it too overpoweringly ‘blue’.
Materials are deliberately unostentatious, in keeping with the austere spirit of the Capuchin order, which conceives the church as a welcoming open house, rather than an aloof, overpowering monument.
Had felt the overpowering certainty of the man behind the words and, again, recognised the echo in himself.
In order to not get caught up in overpowering emotion, one must make it a point to avoid what gets one riled up: “I avoid like the plague morose men of gloomy complexions, and I do not engage in any discussion which I cannot treat without self-interest or emotion, unless compelled to do so by duty.” Calm, Cool and Collected « So Many Books
The exotic combination was not overpowering, and married well with the fish.
The mushrooms were fine, and the sauce was creamy, moreish and perhaps a little overpowering.
They could barely resist the call of the forbidden, and the urge was overpowering.
The Bulldogs were overpowering from the opening kickoff, and dealt a crushing blow to the Razorbacks 'confidence by scoring NCAA Football - Georgia vs. Arkansas
They could barely resist the call of the forbidden, and the urge was overpowering.
Her perfume is overpowering and fills the car, as if ladled onto her dark skirt and striped blouse to cover up whatever she's gone through in the week it took her to get to here. The Next Side Road
Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount. How I Found Livingstone
It is so overpoweringly painful, human victims have been known to go into shock and drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore.
Like the bloodhounds they are, they must have sniffed the overpowering scent of money mixed with a human rights issue, and went in for the kill.
The harpsichord was remarkably bright, and thus at times also rather overpowering.
A story of overpowering first love was retold as a 1970s photo story strip. Times, Sunday Times
This entire process is developing in an atmosphere of deep socio-economic crisis in which international weight is often overpowering due to the disproportionateness of available resources.
Big, poufed dresses can be overpowering on a tall woman, and very slim dresses can make you look even taller.
The flowers left here are the large overpowering white lilies that go with death. SEA MUSIC
It does not need overpowering with strong flavours, although it can handle them well enough. Food Watch
an overpowering need for solitude
The broth was a little too buttery, with some slightly overpowering raw garlic dominating the flavour.
Well, after two weeks of constant use they must have been quite overpowering. Times, Sunday Times
Countermove: Indiana's frontcourt is deep, if not overpowering outside of O'Neal. USATODAY.com
Being left to guard such bounty can be an overpowering temptation.
* Sadistic Conception of the Sexual Act. * -- If children of so delicate an age become spectators of the sexual act between grown-ups, for which an occasion is furnished by the conviction of the grown-ups that little children cannot understand anything sexual, they cannot help conceiving the sexual act as a kind of maltreating or overpowering, that is, it impresses them in a sadistic sense. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Mrs Winter was large and somewhat overpowering.
In my next what-d'you-call-it I'll see to it that I get named something really practical -- something that sounds swell and yet is good and virile -- something, in fact, like that grand old name so familiar to every household -- that bold and almost overpowering name, Willis Jimjams Ijams! '' Babbitt
Mrs Winter was large and somewhat overpowering.
Such occasions were dominated by the overpowering splendour of the Aksumite rulers.
It is much better to have a benefic dominating a malefic - thereby reducing its power to destroy - than it is to have a malefic overpowering a benefic.
In my next what-d'you-call-it I'll see to it that I get named something really practical -- something that sounds swell and yet is good and virile -- something, in fact, like that grand old name so familiar to every household -- that bold and almost overpowering name, Willis Jimjams Ijams! '' Babbitt
Oregano is a pungent herb, overpowering if used alone.
It's a live recording that is naked in its emotionality and beauty, simply overpowering.
When firefighters arrived they were struck by the overpowering smell of petrol. Times, Sunday Times
The noise of crashing wood, trucks beeping in reverse, and men shouting was overpowering.
There's an overpowering smell of garlic in the kitchen.
The romaine was crisp and full of bite, the vinaigrette was tangy but not overpowering and the freshly shaved Parmesan bound it all together in perfect harmony.
I have been very idle lately; both from the overpowering idea of our dead poets and from abatement of my love of fame.
The makers say the smell is more noticeable to others than to you, but the overpowering chemical scent just made me feel sick. The Sun
An exalted call rang out joyfully, overpowering Griffith's next words and catching the Dawns' attentions.
The stench from the river is so overpowering that even those desperate for water would shun it.
To date I am still receiving complaints from residents and workers in the immediate vicinity that the smell at times is overpowering and unbearable.
The plot was simple, the effect overpowering.
The stench of burning rubber was overpowering.
Only one should be the star, otherwise the effect is too overpowering. The Sun
The fumes were overpowering and the engines made a terrible racket.
We should require evidence that would be overpowering in its effect on our judgment with reference to the incredibility of the statements made.
Well, after two weeks of constant use they must have been quite overpowering. Times, Sunday Times
Even through my handkerchief the reek of death was overpowering. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
The palm oil and peanut used to marinate the leaves provide a nice touch without overpowering the fibrous greens.
Pound for pound he is probably the longest hitter in golf, and when his streaky putter clicks, he is capable of overpowering any course or opponent.
Since it was not overpowering, it did not bother them much.
I quickly find noise and clamour and small talk overpowering. Times, Sunday Times
The first police investigators to enter the hold were confronted by flies and an overpowering stench, and a mass of tangled limbs. Times, Sunday Times
The disease has been so long associated with illicit sexual activity that there's been an overpowering silence on the issue," admits the Rev. Ted Karpf, HIV/AIDS missioner for the Anglican Communion in southern Africa. Time To Get Religion
The Glitterati have managed to produce an album full of strength without overpowering you.
He makes it to a sandbank, but instead of waiting for help, he swims into the open water, driven by an overpowering impulse: What was happening to him was inexplicable, magical even, but it felt quite natural. The Rancher & the Sculptor
The guilt was always there, it was everpresent, but these days it had become somewhat muffled guilt—everything came to her these days as muffled, not-quite-there, illusory, everything except her overpowering anxiety over Ashish. For the Sake of the Boy
I enjoyed my duck as shown above, with a helping of Dutch red cabbage and apple yum! which really helped to cut through the almost overpowering saltiness of the duck, and a serve of my fantastic crash-hot potatoes. Duck Confit
A great deal has been said upon the overpowering "lusciousness" of his poetry, and the magical "melody" of his verse: most of this is futile. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were overpowering as to leave me a bit sick.
The jam has a rich, vibrant colour, and its 3 main flavours meld perfectly, none of them overpowering the other. Ispahan jam makes it all taste so good
All that was around her was Michael Milano, his oily, slimy, greasy demeanor was overpowering her.
Tatum was an overpowering fastballer with erratic control, and Blair was crowding the plate. ROB NEYER’S BIG BOOK OF BASEBALL LEGENDS
That makes it sound so po-faced and worthy that I can feel a yawn overpowering me. Times, Sunday Times
The more you chew, the more the taste intensifies, eventually overpowering the other ingredients.

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