overbear

Example Sentences

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I know that it is easy to overbear a person’s mind if you continuously barrage them with questions and accuse them.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011

But just because Karl Malden won't be brought to overbear on this doesn't mean Amex considers it unimportant.

From Time Magazine Archive

The forbidding faces are Fates to overbear and blemish true fellowship.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver

Perhaps you may see her, alertly skulking among the underbrush, still uttering that tender, persuasive cry, so faint that the chirp of a cricket might overbear it.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)