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Example sentences for "overridden"

Lexicographically close words:
overrates; overrating; overreach; overreached; overreaching; override; overrides; overriding; overripe; overrode
  1. Hills overridden by an ice sheet often have similarly rounded contours on the stoss side, while on the lee side they may be craggy, either because of plucking or because here they have been less worn from their initial profile (Fig.

  2. The direction of the flow of vanished glaciers and ice sheets is recorded both in the differences just mentioned in the profiles of overridden hills and also in the minute details of the glacier trail.

  3. The fault was so inexplicable to Aymer, so utterly foreign to his whole understanding, that he had nothing but contempt for it, whereas, had Christopher been his own son, love would have overridden contempt with fear.

  4. One that is honoured by his own people becomes an object of regard with his foes also, while one that is disregarded by his own is overridden by foes.

  5. A person that has no kinsmen is easily overridden by foes.

  6. If the king be overridden by his foes, all his subjects become unhappy.

  7. Great care must be exercised, however, that it be not overridden or pushed upon, as either accident might result in perforation of the esophagus by the pin point.

  8. When first inserting the laryngoscope to find the epiglottis, great care should be taken not to insert too deeply lest the epiglottis be overridden and thus hidden.

  9. Accordingly they fared forth and acquainted the young King who held the matter grievous and was overridden by cark and care: however he said to them, "If there must perforce be fighting and killing, I have treasures sufficient to levy a host.

  10. Sir, he said, my name is Priamus, and a great prince is my father, and he hath been rebel unto Rome and overridden many of their lands.

  11. Then foot-hot Sir Palomides came upon Sir Tristram, as he was upon foot, to have overridden him.

  12. Either the eggs of the rightful owner of the nest are not hatched, or else the young are overridden and overreached by the parasite and perish prematurely.

  13. Glacial epoch, Scanian, represented only in the south of Sweden, which was overridden by a large Baltic glacier.

  14. Hills overridden by an ice sheet often have similarly rounded contours on the stoss side, while on the lee side they may be craggy, either because of plucking or because here they have been less worn from their initial profile.

  15. In short, the generation factor which is fundamental in the Hawaiian scheme and only modified by dichotomy in the usual type of bifurcate merging schemes is here overridden by some other factor.

  16. Mass-media politics is already a thing of the past-not because television is overridden by the Internet, but because of the need to create a framework for individual motivation for political action.

  17. Many other characteristics of literacy-dominated pragmatics are overridden in the dynamic world of interconnections: formal rules of language, determinism, dualistic distinctions.

  18. Natural instincts are systematically overridden through mediating mechanisms for providing nourishment, acquiring health care, and settling conflicts.

  19. Mr. Vavasour did not expect that law and justice would be overridden by royal prerogative.

  20. The laws of England are not to be overridden at the King's will.

  21. A young girl like Elizabeth coming out here in time of war, when this neutral ground between the lines is overridden and foraged to death, and deluged with blood by friend as well as foe?

  22. It was, too, overridden by the cavalry of both sides in attempts to surprise outposts, cut off supplies, and otherwise harass and sting.

  23. Still that desire may be overridden by the necessity or special advantage of closely blockading one or more of his squadrons.

  24. The mechanism by which equitable rights were saved from being overridden by the claims of the legal owner was somewhat different in the two systems.

  25. The ordinances of the government obtain gradually the same efficacy in private concerns as in matters of state, and are no longer liable to be overridden by the behests of a despot enthroned by each hearthstone.

  26. The sentiment of racial fraternity expressed in the saying that "blood is thicker than water" is easily suspended or even overridden and for the time extinguished by political bitterness.

  27. After we had settled at Ocean Camp she still remained nipped by the ice, only her stern showing and her bows overridden and buried by the relentless pack.

  28. These attractions, however, were overridden by the fact that the beach was open to the attack of wind and sea from the north-east and east.

  29. To the south, the rocks are overridden by the inland ice which bears down upon and overwhelms them.

  30. The Island has been overridden in comparatively recent times by an ice-cap travelling from west to east.

  31. A vague murmur of voices from the deck was suddenly overridden by a sharp order, and to his relief the slowly revolving wheels again sent a pulsation through the water, and the great fabric moved solemnly away.

  32. One or two men sprang to their feet, several hands groped for hidden weapons, and a suggestion to "throw him from the window" was only overridden by a gesture from the Judge.

  33. When the restrictions embodied in the constitution are overridden and disregarded in one instance it affords a precedent for a second step in the same direction.

  34. Upon the whole, the question was a nice one for a casuist; and if there had not been a day to spare, duty to his country must have overridden private faith.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overridden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beat; beaten; bested; confounded; defeated; discomfited; down; fallen; fixed; floored; licked; outdone; overcome; overmatched; overpowered; overthrown; overwhelmed; panicked; ruined; scattered; settled; skinned; trimmed; undone; upset; whipped; worsted