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Example sentences for "overhauled"

Lexicographically close words:
overhang; overhanging; overhangs; overhasty; overhaul; overhauling; overhead; overhear; overheard; overhearing
  1. A dozen boat loads of fugitives were overhauled or sunk.

  2. That chap Lawless has overhauled the professor’s papers.

  3. I wish I’d had time to go over the papers more thoroughly before that kid’s craft overhauled us.

  4. The tackle box is overhauled again and again, notwithstanding the attention paid to it at the close of the last season, to be sure that nothing is wanting or left undone.

  5. But for this peculiarity the village in which night overhauled me differed but little from that of the evening before, except in being many hundred feet nearer sea level.

  6. The whole canal system of the country has been overhauled and greatly improved.

  7. Soon the Lion overhauled the slow Bluecher, and in passing gave her a broadside which caused frightful damage.

  8. In an hour's time the Miami which, under forced draft, was flying through the water, overhauled the vessel.

  9. But, foot by foot, almost, the boy thought, step by step, the Miami overhauled the wrecked vessel.

  10. Hoping the Adventure might yet come in, Cook pushed on with his refit, and thoroughly overhauled his stores.

  11. Whilst here, the two ships were thoroughly overhauled and everywhere put into as good a state of repair as the appliances available would permit.

  12. We've work before us, if we don't want to go to the bottom or be overhauled by the Yankees.

  13. She'll be overhauled before eight bells to-morrow.

  14. There were several ship reasons why it would be good for her to go into dock and be overhauled for repairs.

  15. A few even sailed with no cannon at all, confident of taking them out of the first prize overhauled by laying alongside--and so in some cases they actually did.

  16. The Typhoon now overhauled her rivals and was the first to signal her arrival, but the victory was earned by the Raven, which had set her departure from Boston Light while the others had sailed from New York.

  17. The engines were overhauled by the faithful McGuffey and a large store of distillate stored in the hold.

  18. She was also given a dash of black paint, had her engines and boilers thoroughly overhauled and repaired, and shipped a new propeller that would add at least a knot to her speed.

  19. I've had the Maggie overhauled and shipped a new wheel, and she's a mighty smart little boat, I'll tell you.

  20. She had had her bottom cleaned and scraped and the copper sheathing overhauled and patched up.

  21. However, he got half up on my coming in, and I saw he was lame a little of one foot, while he overhauled me all over with his eye.

  22. If I had only overhauled her, as I meant at first, we might have helped them in time; for no doubt the fire must have been commenced when we noticed her yawing yonder a couple of hours ago, sir.

  23. Of these, one small vessel was overhauled and the French flagship was taken after a heroic defense, that lasted until sunset, against overwhelming odds.

  24. The eleventh, less speedy than the rest, was being overhauled by the Spartan flagship which was pushing the pursuit far in advance of the rest of the squadron.

  25. A punctilious regard for the safety of the crews of overhauled merchantmen won admiration even from the seamen of the destroyed vessels.

  26. If he were overhauled and taken into Lerwick by a British patrol-boat, well and good.

  27. Them that overhauled us would have to ride for it.

  28. When we overhauled the leather sack into which Jim had stowed all the notes and cheques we found that we'd done better than we expected, though we could see from the first it wasn't going to be a bad night's work.

  29. Meanwhile the commodore, profiting by the damage that we had inflicted upon the brigantine, rapidly overhauled her.

  30. Very soon the Saturn overhauled the slow Goethe, and in passing gave her a broadside, which carried away her bridge and caused frightful damage on board.

  31. But the British ship, with her greater speed, quickly overhauled him and exchanged broadsides with him.

  32. I sent the carpenter with him--overhauled our bread and found.

  33. They overhauled traps, and got ready all their trapping gear.

  34. Another time they overhauled and threw a wolf which Mr. Clark afterward stunned, and then bound its jaws together.

  35. But it didn't work; for by that time we had all got our second wind an' he soon realized that we was determined not to be overhauled from the rear.

  36. When they overhauled it, sure enough his gun was aboard.

  37. One vessel flying the British flag had left the Thames laden with spoil, in an endeavour to reach Hamburg, but off Harwich she had been sighted and overhauled by a British cruiser, with the result that she had been steered to Dover.

  38. I'll engage, Master Eau-douce, had you given me a call that said Tuesday morning, that we should have overhauled the blackguards.

  39. I remember once that I thought my own time had come, and the log was overhauled with a diligence I did not think myself capable of until that moment.

  40. We thoroughly overhauled the forecastle of the vessel, but found nothing of interest.

  41. It was arranged that the cabins of the first-class passengers should be thoroughly overhauled by the second and third mates.

  42. To our delight, Halley overhauled Payne before half-way was reached, and we felt now absolutely sure of the race.

  43. Next time we overhauled him we made our approach in a far more gingerly manner.

  44. All the sick and wounded men had been sent back by rail to Chattanooga; all our wagon-trains had been carefully overhauled and loaded, so as to be ready to start on an hour's notice, and there was no serious enemy in our front.

  45. I overhauled my pocket according to custom, to read more carefully the various notes and memoranda received during the day, and found the paper which had been given me, as described, by one of our escaped prisoners.

  46. Fortunately, several officers saw him, and quickly giving chase, overhauled him within a few hundred yards.

  47. Water I could hear close by, and when I had filled my pannikin I lit my fire, for night falls quickly in the New Zealand bush, and overhauled my stores.

  48. Now I mentioned before that I had made the best use of my frontier education; so at once I dragged my canoe out of the water as far as I could and made fast the painter to a stout tree, then overhauled my belongings.

  49. Their grammatical relationships are thoroughly overhauled and sometimes they are radically modified in form.

  50. But words that come in visually, say through street-signs and the newspapers, are immediately overhauled and have thoroughly Americanized vowels and consonants thereafter.


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