overwhelmed

Example Sentences

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When overwhelmed with emotion, which she was often, she would scream, “I wanna bear all your children!” to audiences.

From Los Angeles Times

The best thing you can do for the group and for your overwhelmed friend: Mentally and financially count her out and wait until she’s ready to face that reality as well.

From MarketWatch

She has spoken with her son since learning of the decision, and said he is similarly overwhelmed: "He had been anxious and unsettled about today's hearing."

From Barron's

They happen when water treatment works become overwhelmed, usually after rainfall, allowing highly diluted sewage to spill into a river as a "safety valve".

From BBC

I crawl in back with her and am overwhelmed by the smell of lavender.

From Literature