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Example sentences for "overdriven"

Lexicographically close words:
overdraw; overdrawn; overdress; overdressed; overdrive; overdue; overe; overeating; overemphasis; overestimate
  1. Still, the transient smile of a marchioness and the political economy of a sour-avised operative are not enough to keep alive the romance of underfed, ill-clad, overdriven childhood.

  2. He was familiar, too, with bleak rehearsals, hours of listless waiting for his little scenes; with his powerlessness to get into his simple words the particular intonation required by an overdriven producer.

  3. Now we heard the high note of its overdriven engines as it rolled and rocked toward the rising chute.

  4. For several hours she searched; hungry, drenched with water, ready to drop with exhaustion, as she was used to see the overdriven cattle sink upon the road.

  5. The burning days and the sultry nights poured down on her bare head and blinded her, and filled her throat with the dust of the public ways, and parched her mouth with the thirst of overdriven cattle.

  6. The pupil's parent is really the very greatest bane of all the banes that beset a poor harassed overdriven schoolmaster's unfortunate existence!

  7. He was now the willing, patient, overdriven breadwinner, struggling to keep an impoverished household together.

  8. Then came a distant rushing sound and the panting as of an animal sore spent, and hard on the shepherd's tracks there appeared over a knoll an overdriven mob of sheep flying before the silent, demoniacal, tireless energy of his own dog.


  9. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overdriven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.