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Example sentences for "overshadow"

Lexicographically close words:
overseer; overseers; oversees; overset; oversetting; overshadowed; overshadowing; overshadows; overshoes; overshoot
  1. Mary's Second Word "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee.

  2. The second statement is: "And the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.

  3. It seemed as if this new influence had already become a part of his very life, and at last a restless dreamy sleep did indeed overshadow the exhausted warrior.

  4. Hildegardis, striving to appear scornful and proud, though a deep and secret sadness was plainly enough seen to overshadow her countenance.

  5. In the midst of it floats a long cradle, formed by the coils of a serpent, all whose heads, bending forward at the same time, overshadow a god who lies there asleep.

  6. The last in the procession fix in the ground erect, as a chandelier, a huge pine-tree, whose summit is on fire, and the lowest branches of which overshadow a little sheep.

  7. Many weeds do not grow in autumn and winter; hence, the less injury done by them to alfalfa plants, since the latter are so strong by spring that they overshadow the weeds in their effort to grow.

  8. Such renovation would be comparatively easy on clean land, were it not for fact that the alfalfa plants already rooted overshadow the young plants, always to their injury, and sometimes to their total destruction.

  9. But the necessity for sowing it on clean ground would not be so great as with the other clovers, since it has greater power than these to overshadow weeds when the two grow together.

  10. So one more intolerable question would overshadow his peace of mind.

  11. In these golden evenings of the summer-term, there was too much going forward in Carlington Road to let old glooms overshadow the gaiety of present life.

  12. And the angel answering said to her: The Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Highest will overshadow thee; therefore also the Holy One that is born shall be called the Son of God.

  13. The day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be laid low, with Priam and Priam's people, when the son of Saturn from his high throne shall overshadow them with his awful aegis in punishment of their present treachery.

  14. I am son to a noble father, and have a goddess for my mother, but the hands of doom and death overshadow me all as surely.

  15. Then the messenger of truth answered her: 'The Holy Spirit shall come to thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee.

  16. The cherubim are not outside of creation; why, then, does He allow cherubim carved by the hand of man to overshadow the mercy-seat?

  17. It was fitting that the image of the heavenly choirs should overshadow the divine mysteries.

  18. Listen to God's command to Moses that he should make two cherubim wrought in metal to overshadow the propitiatory.

  19. It is an easy, and the only, way to make a sapling conspicuous, to fell the noble trees that surround and overshadow it.

  20. Society was paralyzed with alarm; evil spirits were thought to overshadow the land; every nervous influence, even every ordinary symptom of disease, was ascribed to demoniac power.

  21. If Nature overshadow with her wings her first causes, still the effects lie open before us, and experience and observation will often deduce from consciousness what we cannot from demonstration.

  22. Then arose Thebes, a city not fifty miles from Athens, to overshadow Sparta.

  23. The great merit of it I apprehend lay in the original conception, which I take to have been yours, and to overshadow even your operations towards the direct production of the result.

  24. But one thing it cannot overshadow in my mind: the sense of the inexpressible aid and comfort derived day by day from your considerate ever-watchful care and tact.

  25. No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

  26. The climax of this tendency for the occupational to replace and overshadow all other forms of self-conscious grouping is present-day Syndicalism.

  27. An essential weakness of all such groups in a progressive community is that tradition tends to overshadow purpose; hence every such group tends towards the rigidity and relative futility of the purely traditional group.

  28. His spirit will continue to overshadow you in your labours and to sustain and guide you in your exertions.

  29. With home almost in sight, he had outspanned his waggon in the valley, and ascending the hills had found that darkness would overshadow his path ere the object he had in view could be accomplished, if indeed it could be accomplished at all.

  30. And the most recent claimant to inspiration sometimes threatened to overshadow the tradition of a thousand years, and to assert an oecumenical power.

  31. The immortal life began to overshadow the present, and in the mysteries men found some assurance of immortality, and preparation for it by cleansing from the stains of time.

  32. Trees should not be grown in hedge-rows where the fence is to be perfect, as these overshadow the best hedge-plants, and the sides of the boles always offer weak places.

  33. God and his holy angels looked down with delight upon this innocent household, full of tenderness and kindness, and did not allow evil to overshadow it.


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