How To Use Overwhelm In A Sentence

The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
Does a father react angrily when his tired, overwhelmed twelve-month-old flails out and hits him on the nose?
On a sunny summer day one can be overwhelmed by the abundance of the wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
It bemuses me that I need a face-to-face situation in order to be able to construct my own argument without feeling overwhelmed.

The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
With each soft shadow and sharp crimp exquisitely rendered, the act of painting serves to overwhelm the subject.
They realized it would be suicidal to resist in the face of overwhelming military superiority.
Your problem becomes a series of small tasks, rather than an overwhelming amorphous mass. Times, Sunday Times
Not even his trusty silver medallion of St. Christopher could protect him against such overwhelming numbers. Storyteller
Physicist and ufologist Stan Friedman argues that it's overwhelmingly likely that some UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft. Posthuman Blues
And if signage is any indicator, supporters were overwhelmingly in favor of the public option. Archive 2009-08-01
It's fun and looks good, but I tend to think the "shazam" factor overwhelms the actual participatory value. Discourse.net: NN08: Annette Taddeo Is a 'Future Leader'
This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
Older people overwhelmingly feel that children have less respect for the older generation and older people are unable to discipline their children and grandchildren.
She felt an overwhelming desire to return home.
Lia could feel a familiar weight reside within her chest, an overwhelming sense of unease overcoming her.
Yet again invidious comparisons are made with our continental neighbours whose milk consumption, in part because of very different climatic conditions, is overwhelmingly of UHT milk. Archive 2007-10-14
Scholars do not yield their ground readily unless the evidence against their position is overwhelming.
I was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness as I watched her being wheeled into the operating theatre.
It includes the overwhelming majority of the voters and is consequently more heterogeneous in its social and ideological composition.
The general odor of the man she loves, one woman states, is highly, sometimes even overwhelmingly, attractive to her; but the specific odor of the male sexual organs which she describes as fishy has no attraction. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
The technology avalanche often leaves her feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and exhausted.
Mr. Masson's discussions of Milton's English are, it seems to me, for the most part unsatisfactory He occupies some ten pages, for example, with a history of the genitival form _its_, which adds nothing to our previous knowledge on the subject and which has no relation to Milton except for its bearing on the authorship of some verses attributed to him against the most overwhelming internal evidence to the contrary. Among My Books Second Series
Mormons, an overwhelmingly Republican demographic (nicknamed the blacks of the GOP), make up something like a third of the people in dentistry school. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions
He is getting an overwhelming amount of money by way of the pension; furthermore, this pension is tax free for this financial year.
In November of 1997, after a massacre in Luxor that killed fifty-eight tourists and provoked overwhelming revulsion, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiya halted its armed struggle. Backfire
Even given this broad re-engagement with Jewish culture and history, the nostalgia for and interest in the shmatte business over the past decade has been overwhelming. Shmatte Chic | Jewschool
The weather was warm and clear; the mood happy in this, the cradle of the American Revolution, which is overwhelmingly pro-Obama. At the Polls: Lines and Lawsuits - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she couldn't drag her eyes away.
Behind the dish's overwhelming dose of lime juice, the broth was tinny and under-salted and left an unpleasant, lingering taste that I associate with the pre-prepared garlic paste you buy in jars.
Miguel blinked, appalled and overwhelmed before rationally reasoning with himself, as all mathematicians can.
Against overwhelming odds, I surrendered myself and watched a glut of documentaries about the military hardware.
I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
And, while we are at it, and just to pick up on one of Arnold's areas of interest, the overwhelming majority of students and people are completely unaware of how lousy is the US performance in life expectancy and infant mortality compared to the rest of the world, nor how much more we pay for this wonderful performance than do those elsewhere. I Heart Textbook Authors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The succession of blows—the Agency’s decision not to provide us with any security, followed by the horrifying SSCI report and its Additional Views section, then my colleague’s inability or unwillingness to retestify before the SSCI, and the continuing media onslaught—were overwhelming. Fair Game
On Wednesday the Clinton camp started pushing hard on the idea that a delegate is a delegate and if they need to pack on super delegates to overwhelm Obama's edge with elected delegates then so be it. More on John Lewis' defection to Obama
Nepal is overwhelmingly patrilineal and patrilocal.
It was a feeling of overwhelming love. The Sun
But this particular morning, my tears were salted with frustration and exhaustion as my body and soul crumpled, overwhelmed by the weight of empathy. Christianity Today
Measuring at an overwhelming 2.4 metres long and weighing 340 kilograms, this fish is shown at a seafood market in Wenzhou, east China Zhejiang Province on 23 January, 2007. 2007 » January
She says the men connived at their own obliteration from history, overwhelmed at learning of the deaths of Scott and the other members of the south pole party, for which any one of them could have been selected. Scott of the Antarctic anniversary to focus on science, not the sideshow
My fear it would go wrong again was overwhelming. The Sun
I keep sitting down here and trying to write about how terrified and unterrified and overwhelmed and unenthused I am. Hamletwildie Diary Entry
Against this, however, stood the successful isolation of the political resistance organizations and the overwhelmingly closed nature of the different social milieux inherited from the Weimar period.
A new Constitution was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum on Dec. 23, 1990.
Perhaps in their heyday around 2006-2007, they were overwhelmed with the explosive rowth, however it was reported that prior to the recent management shuffling, they had a 1000 employees? Why MySpace Is Really GeoCities 2.0
Sonically overwhelming throughout its eight tracks, the album affirms the enduring significance of alt-rock's most pervasive clichés.
Somehow, in such situations, we are overwhelmed by a desire to help. Times, Sunday Times
Though commentators and critics do not agree as to whether the later Wittgenstein is still a finitist and whether, if he is, his finitism is as radical as his intermediate rejection of unbounded mathematical quantification (Maddy 1986, 300-301, 310), the overwhelming evidence indicates that the later Wittgenstein still rejects the actual infinite Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
With all their profundity and gravitas, they have striven hard to sanitize all abusage in application yet, pitiably, they seemed to have been overwhelmed by the brutality of the crisis Undefined
Too many students left the teach-in feeling intimidated not by the overwhelming opposition to the war, but to the way an academic forum became a fervid presentation of an exclusive viewpoint.
In the absence of payment, amateur reviewers write overwhelmingly about topics they love.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
At Claremorris on Sunday afternoon, the visitors overwhelmed the home side with an emphatic victory.
Then such a wave of despair and anguish overwhelmed him, the irrevocableness and implacability of fate so smote him, that he lifted up his head and howled aloud. Flush: a biography
I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
They were truly doing their best, but they were a little overwhelmed. Times, Sunday Times
When most people think about Australian national identity, the images they remember are overwhelmingly blokey - drovers, surfies, lifesavers, Anzac soldiers.
They fear that the overwhelming support enjoyed by the two men could ultimately factionalize the party should one of them fail to get the job. National Convention: Make Or Break For PDP Of Nigeria
We are overwhelmed by information, so conveying a message that sticks is tougher than ever.
Why is she so anxious and feeling so overwhelmed at times that her anxiety spirals into panic? Times, Sunday Times
While each of these has a field of application the overwhelming bulk of metal is shaped from the simple cast ingot by a series of deformation processes.
Primary education, having become universal and largely public, became overwhelmingly secular.
Refineries in South Africa say they are overwhelmed by orders from Germany for Krugerrand gold coins. Euro crisis: only root-and-branch financial reform can tame the wolf pack
The British Air Force succeeded despite overwhelming odds against them.
While I admire and respect these Members for coming together and participating in a real dialogue about the future of climate change legislation, I hope that a revenue-neutral carbon tax (the solution the overwhelming majority of economists and scientists agree is best) is being considered. The In's and Out's of the Upcoming Energy and Climate Bill and Why It's Stalled | Inhabitat
That they make them without blushing is a sign of the power of Tolkien, and the overwhelming quality of his prose. Infectious language
The overwhelming caseload has made the government reluctant to postpone trials, even though virtually all of the suspects lack defense attorneys.
Wilhelm Schmidt has compiled an overwhelming amount of these stories in a multivolume book totaling four thousand pages! Modern Science in the Bible
The overwhelming impression of Soul is of a science in retreat, forced to admit the inadequacy of its materialism.
It's among those contracts that the crisis has made rewritable It's also that which Josh Marshall describes as a set of "social bargains that explain why it is that the overwhelming number of people are content with the fact that some people make $45,000 a year and other people make $45,000,000 a year. Terrance Heath: The Jobs Deficit & The Breaking Point, Pt. 2
Faced by an overwhelmingly superior force, our badly depleted three divisions had barely escaped being bagged in the net of which the enemy had all but drawn the noose in a strategetic surrounding movement. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
First up in the breezy but not overwhelmingly difficult conditions yesterday was Ian Lawson, in the men's single sculls.
I was most overwhelmed and went to bed having nightmares about socked feet walking up and down my naked body shouting knit one purl one faster faster…
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Make a virtue of your tenacity, or overwhelmingly feel that life is too short? Times, Sunday Times
If you feel overwhelmed, exhausted or just plain rundown, you probably are dealing with unhealthy amounts of stress.
Following an overwhelming response, BBC News Online is publishing a second instalment of answers to your questions.
The flood was overwhelming and the city was soon drowned.
The parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to suspend its declaration of independence.
He is despised by the overwhelming majority of the population, and most of them will secretly cheer if he gets a drubbing at the hands of the protestors.
The Chiefs would have won, whatever defense they played, because their defensive players simply overwhelmed the Raiders.
I suddenly felt an overwhelming desire to laugh.
As we enter Whole Foods, symbols—or what advertisers call "symbolics"—of freshness overwhelm us. Selling Illusions of Cleanliness
While the overwhelming majority aim to be peaceful there are fears that some protests may turn violent.
American global power was unchallenged and overwhelming. Times, Sunday Times
Alliance forces met only sporadic resistance to an overwhelming display of firepower. Times, Sunday Times
The temptation to use that data to answer almost any question about consumption is overwhelming. Times, Sunday Times
When the boy walked into the synagogue tonight, he did so in reaction to an overwhelming urge to be one with his people in supplicating the Almighty on this holiest day.
Sometimes the despair can be sudden and overwhelming. Times, Sunday Times
One young, unattached aircraftman who is on his first posting summed it up: "The wet can be a pain and there are times when things do feel a bit overwhelming."
The story line is fast-paced from the moment the two quite different in outlook siblings cross through to Karac Tor and never slows down although the ending is overwhelmed with too many unresolved threads (setting up future books apparently). The Book of Names-D. Barkley Briggs « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
The unmanaged growth of our financial aid budget threatens to overwhelm that commitment.
Overwhelming relief and joy engulfed Jason upon seeing her and he took a step forward.
What is not meaningful is incremental meliorism in the face of a coming catastrophe and against the opposition of a overwhelming oligarchic hegemony. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
And most importantly, Bynum was still in street clothes, robbing the Lakers of the full complement of length typically overwhelming the Jazz over the last few seasons.
Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
At Holy Cross High, the school was overwhelmed by a large number of parents standing in a long queue with their children waiting to be admitted.
The overwhelming reason for being involved with the scheme was to meet social obligations. Personnel Management: A New Approach
But tonight I started thinking about our first SpouseBUZZ Live whenAWTM told the story ofhow overwhelmed she felt right before her husband came home. Throwing the List Out the Window - SpouseBUZZ
To me the problem lies in one unescapable human flaw - people's overwhelming drive to seek power and control over others.
The pleading, concerned look in his eyes overwhelmed me.
A superintendent told the court that no body or weapon had been found, but that there was an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence.
The disparity in fees between different schools can be overwhelming.
Usually the noise of my best friend's family is comforting, but today it was overwhelming.
It is a failure of volition, but it's an overwhelming drive that absolutely crushes volition.
Allan Snyder and John Mitchell of the Centre for the Mind in Canberra , Australia, argue that savant brain processes occur in each of us but are overwhelmed by more sophisticated conceptual cognition.
Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
Alongside the impact of your father's aggressive behaviour when you were growing up, this would only add to your overwhelming feelings of anxiety. Times, Sunday Times
Darkness overwhelmed her senses and yet she knew of the undesirable fate her friend had fallen into.
It is understandable to feel overwhelmed in social situations - a convivial atmosphere is so at odds with how you feel. Times, Sunday Times
Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986 after overwhelming evidence that it was driving the world's largest mammals to extinction. Times, Sunday Times
This was overwhelming rejected by union members who stated they were holding out for a four per cent increase.
The evidence against him was overwhelming.
Has there ever been higher expression of the overwhelming nearness and glory of God?
Facing death has given me an overwhelming desire to do something with more purpose and depth than my previous career. Times, Sunday Times
Being monarch brings with it overwhelming duties and obligations, not the least of which is that your people must find you worthy enough to bow and curtsy to.
Some theorize that labels overwhelm customers with new music on purpose. Oh No They Didn't!
The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more. Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23
Getting a nomination for a World Technology Award was overwhelming, and to have been designated a finalist is abundantly above all I could have asked for. Tiny Projector Enters the Big Show | Impact Lab
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu
The pressures on the decision makers might overwhelm their capacity to respond effectively.
PC Steve Bushby, a police motorcyclist for 19 years, challenged the perception that bikers were overwhelmingly to blame for accidents.
However, Microsoft still commands a overwhelming market share and it is unlikely that will crumble into _nothing_ within foreseeable future. — Microsoft’s Vista Problem, by the Numbers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Most dates have a number of very interesting varieties, the sets are completable by collectors on a relatively limited budget, the designs are great and the number of pieces that make up a set are not overwhelming (as with Liberty Head issues). Classic Head Gold: An Update : Coin Collecting News
GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 26/CNW Telbec/- Striking workers from the Museum of Civilization and War Museum voted overwhelmingly to reject a final offer from the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation this evening, at a membership meeting in Gatineau. Undefined
The sheen of her black feathers overwhelms the shine of the moon.
Of course, this great need for all things me... was parallelled in intensity by my complete and overwhelming need to get my office hooked up. Phew!!
Maybe you were overwhelmed by advice, as my letters went unanswered.
He was surprised by the way she accepted him so readily, but he wasn't about to question her behavior when he was so overwhelmed.
It said evidence pointed overwhelmingly to MMR as the most effective and safest way of protecting children from measles, mumps and rubella.
The pastry was too dense, the chocolate filling was too dry, and it was loaded with nuts that simply overwhelmed whatever pear flavour might have been there.
Even the best medicine, if too diluted, may readily be overwhelmed by stronger counteragents.
Asian manual laborers who came to the United States in the nineteenth century were overwhelmingly male.
Our Hall Ings and district offices have been overwhelmed with parcels, packages, carrier bags and boxes of items sent in by individuals, families, companies and organisations.
On national housing policy: He believes that although "homeownership is a very important national goal," federal policy is "imbalanced" - overwhelmingly favoring single-family ownership over rental housing options, which tend to allow greater density and more-efficient land use. Business - BostonHerald.com
It also lets me space non-time-specific events out through the day, so as not to overwhelm people with a massive dump of information".
I agree with all that genafan201 said about this addition, it is both phycological and physical, and the battle to overcome it during cancer treatments can be overwhelming. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Bechtel's smart meter reading system has been overwhelming majority of user acceptance and support.
Everyone exchanged bows; then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away. ALL ABOUT LOVE
A graffitist wants his tag or piece (and the overwhelming majority are male) to be conspicuous for as long as possible
I was overwhelmed by his commanding, assured musicianship in Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Smetana, Liszt, and Grainger.
The parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to suspend its declaration of independence.
It's easy to notice that these miscreants are overwhelmingly white, educated, and well-heeled enough to sink enormous expense and labor into realizing a few days of whimsy and weirdness.
The controversy is heating up just days after voters overwhelmingly turned down a ballot proposition to increase mountain lion hunting.
Overwhelming amounts of online medical information are leading researchers to coin a new psychological classification called "cyberchondria" that describes people who obsessively misdiagnose themselves using the Web.
Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire.
Scotland's wild salmon population is in danger of being overwhelmed by the farmed variety.
St Francis is a saint normally associated with peaceful, eremetic living and an overwhelming empathy for the animal kingdom. Ruth Gledhill - Times Online - WBLG
The response was overwhelming and the club acquired a reputation for a lively, hedonistic atmosphere.
The will to survive is extraordinary and at times overwhelming, capable of fashioning some form of normality even out of the darkest hour.
That makes for an overwhelming amount of sleep deprivation!
I was overwhelmed and humbled by the magnitude of what surrounded me.
Medieval agriculture was undertaken by peasants who of course constituted the overwhelming majority of the total population.
The results overwhelmingly favored 1 operation over the other, that is, transaxillary rib resection over supraclavicular neuroplasty without rib resection.
While coming home from fishing one night, the narrator was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of rank, primitive animality, a feeling of wildness.
But the thought of anyone wanting my autograph is too overwhelming for me to really comprehend, so it pushes me to being more embarrassed than anything. Archive 2009-07-01
The sound of the water hissing in the Devil's Throat was overwhelming.
It was exciting, but also scary and overwhelming - like picking up a haul of something illegal. Times, Sunday Times
How much time will you be able to give to your plants without feeling overwhelmed or resentful? Times, Sunday Times
Listening to the music now, or any time in the last ten or fifteen years, I am overwhelmed by the lack of ferociousness that I used to associate with the album.
They certainly had overwhelming numerical superiority. Times, Sunday Times
They do not feel overwhelmed or supremely anxious, because they feel in charge of this changing process. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
I want to blog, I really do, but it's been an overwhelming few weeks and I can't get my noggin in order.
You seem to do quite well already, but if feeling overwhelmed is tripping you up, maybe some of these notions will help! Accomplishing Something
And when he finally saw her performance, a masterpiece of righteous anger and polite smiles, he was overwhelmed. Times, Sunday Times
The parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to suspend its declaration of independence.
American global power was unchallenged and overwhelming. Times, Sunday Times
By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.
Though there is some element of what Pauline Kael described as mopey, post-war German seriousness, perhaps now the film seems somewhat removed from that overwhelming post-war grief. WINGS OF DESIRE Criterion Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
The positive and overwhelming figure reflects the BRUNEI: Methanol produced in Brunei will be ready for export mainly to WN.com - Articles related to Brunei to mark World Tourism Day
His Iliad is powerful, almost overwhelming, his Odyssey utterly charming, and I recommend them to anyone who wishes to read — or reread — Homer's two great epics. The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso)
People who do enjoy it, do so on such an immense, worshipful and salutatory level that it can be a little overwhelming to actually think a book can be that good and life changing.
Anaphylactic shock is the reaction of the body overwhelming sensitization by a foreign protein.
Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
Most people in the history of humanity -- the overwhelming majority, really -- have not independently formulated theories of electromagnetics, or even practical approximations of same, so "nobody came up with that" is a lot easier to defend than "the basic forces all happen to work in exactly the same way except when I didn't want them to. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
We were totally overwhelmed by the response to our appeal.
Voters overwhelmingly rejected the far right in the May elections.
Voters overwhelmingly rejected the far right in the May elections.
I have to admit to feeling overwhelmed by the amount of content. Times, Sunday Times
This focus on "niceness" in critical approaches to young adult fiction -- a genre almost overwhelmingly produced and consumed by women -- is not accidental. Sarah McCarry: Faking Nice in the Blogosphere: Women and Book Reviews
Without far-reaching change, the opportunities brought by technology will become overwhelming threats. Times, Sunday Times
The overwhelming causes of poverty in rural areas were low pay and to a lesser extent old age and widowhood.
But a nationalist boycott of the vote resulted in an overwhelming rejection of union with the republic.
Yes, the ship was overwhelmingly German and German-American, and during bingo sessions I learned to count in German.
Fair enough, even for the staunchest of conservatives, who may recall that President Reagan, in the 1987 National Security Strategy, remarked that "The United States no longer has an overwhelming economic position vis-a-vis Western Europe and the East Asia rimland. Christopher Holshek: America: Let's Re-Invent It
The chocolate mousse had an overwhelming sense of alcohol which was stronger than the amaretto which provided the spirit.
Because this legislation, which entrenches the power of traditional leaders over their rural subjects, will make life infinitely worse for the 15 million overwhelmingly poor people who live in the former Bantustans.
The task won't feel so overwhelming if you break it down into small, easy-to-accomplish steps.
The US admiral's impulsive behaviour reflected the mood of a navy which had grown accustomed to overwhelming superiority. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
But he was able to overwhelm an audience of devotees by genuine warmth and frankness.
It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159). Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
There is an overwhelming predominance of female images in prehistoric art.
It would be peaceful but overwhelming: it would defy the new government, and the dictators, and NATO in the background. COUP D'ETAT
And on Wired News, these photos I shot at the convention this week, including the one at left of a young woman overwhelmed by blinking, bleeping things inside Microsoft's Xbox pavilion.
The banks are so glad for the overwhelming amount of foreclosured homes in this "hoppin" country. wattstheproblem: "funny how everyone damns oil yet majority of you drive and complain about the gas prices. Think Progress
Living the vegan alternative lifestyle that we do, my friends and I are a little overwhelmed by the commercialism of Christmas.
The museum's collection of pre-Columbian earthenware is outstanding and the museum is not so huge as to overwhelm the casual visitor. Guadalajara and the Iztepete archeological site
It's done with great sensitivity and style, but the style never overwhelms the content.

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