overwhelmed

Example Sentences

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Overwhelmed by guilt, and embarrassed she fled the country in a bid to escape her unhappiness, booking a one-way ticket to Bangok.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

Overwhelmed health workers rushed from patient to patient in makeshift tents in Sudan, trying to help even though they too had barely escaped the fall of El-Fasher to paramilitary forces.

From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025

Overwhelmed by the moment, Yamamoto didn’t sound as if he grasped the magnitude of what he’d just done.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2025

Overwhelmed by these exotic sights, this visitor completely overlooked the presence of small, shrew-like mammals—the very creatures whose descendants would, eventually, inherit the earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2025

“I know because I was—still am—depressed after Grandma passed away. Overwhelmed by life. Feeling like there are weights keeping me in bed. Shirking all my responsibilities.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer