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Example sentences for "overswept"

Lexicographically close words:
overstrained; overstraining; overstrung; overstuffed; oversupply; overt; overtake; overtaken; overtakes; overtaketh
  1. Blind rage overswept him, and he shook his fist at the foul reflection, screaming madly: "I am the King!

  2. Robert reeled under an insult bitterer than the blow, and insanity overswept his senses.

  3. Selina was overswept with a passion of loathing for herself, and a need for abasement and self-punishment.

  4. Selina overswept by the fury of swift and sudden rage, stamped her foot and--terrible as it is to have to set it down again--burst into tears.

  5. There was a good deal of grumbling over the absence of Algy when they landed for supper on the high, woody bank that overswept the river up and down in a mighty stretch of view.

  6. This entire region must have been overswept by ice.

  7. Prue caught the crest of the wave that overswept a neglected region.

  8. They glared in a nagged rage that would have turned into an ugly quarrel if a great sorrow had not suddenly overswept them.

  9. For the first darkness of the great tragedy had no sooner overswept her than she began to shrink with an unspeakable aversion from all that was associated with the old life that had now no memory but pain.

  10. She did her best--but the tides of life are strong and willful, and this one overswept the swift barrier she strove to interpose, as straws are swept before a storm.

  11. It is still overswept in three places by glacial flows a half to three quarters of a mile wide, finely arched at the top of the divides.

  12. All the islands have been overswept by the ice-sheet and are but little changed as yet, save a few of the highest summits which have been sculptured by local residual glaciers.


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