Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "overmaster"

Lexicographically close words:
overlordship; overly; overlying; overman; overmantel; overmastered; overmastering; overmatch; overmatched; overmuch
  1. I heard thee declare that Ben Jonson had no words to say how fair she was: would you better his description and overmaster him?

  2. So much the preference of contrivance to labor overmaster the mastering desire to become rich.

  3. If one idea occupies the mind all them more for being great and just, it will be likely to overmaster that mind, so as not to be produced in its fair proportions, or rightly applied.

  4. Let my fate, too, be a warning to young creatures like myself, never to suffer their affection for any object to overmaster their sense and their reason.

  5. For the present there was little allusion to this, his belief at the first being strong that he should overmaster it; but it soon forced itself into all his letters.

  6. It was usual in great sieges to have several of them, so that a whole battery might be set to work to overmaster the defence.

  7. And what is more to be wondered at is, that love which is faithful and true, and sweeter than any other love, doth not overmaster us as doth sinful love!

  8. His gratitude may overmaster this mean emotion, but there is something in the thought of being under obligations to another which is unpleasant, and results in stirring up emotions that are no credit to us.

  9. Now I could overmaster my cousin and set out to the saving of my lass.

  10. I strove hard to curb it, but I felt with each second that it would overmaster me.

  11. As he came near Corless's his former agitation began to overmaster him and he halted before the door in indecision.

  12. He longed to cry to her from his soul, to crush her body against his, to overmaster her.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overmaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bend; break; browbeat; bully; castrate; coerce; compel; conquer; cow; crush; daunt; deck; domineer; enslave; floor; grind; humble; humiliate; intimidate; master; oppress; overawe; overcome; overmaster; overpower; override; overset; overthrow; overturn; overwhelm; quell; reduce; repress; silence; subdue; subjugate; suppress; surmount; terrorize; trip; tyrannize; unman; upset