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Example sentences for "overthrow"

Lexicographically close words:
overtasked; overtax; overtaxed; overtaxing; overthrew; overthrowe; overthroweth; overthrowing; overthrown; overthrows
  1. This was the beginning of that fierce political contest which resulted in the triumph of General Jackson and the overthrow of the United States Bank.

  2. The intriguing nature of these dames appears to have found especial delight in forwarding the schemes of the leaders in the movement to overthrow the Washington Government.

  3. The woman used as a tool by Mr. Van Buren for the overthrow of Mr. Calhoun's political hopes was a picturesque and prominent figure in Washington society then and during the next fifty years.

  4. The United States, who led the way in the overthrow of the feudal doctrine of perpetual allegiance, are among the last to indicate how their own citizens may elect another nationality.

  5. With the overthrow of the French monarchy under the second vial, there arose new rulers in France, who usurped despotic powers, and subjected the governed to most oppressive exactions.

  6. His crying to the fowls of heaven to come and sup on the bodies of the slain, is indicative of the certainty of victory and of the entire overthrow of those who war against the Lamb.

  7. That it is not the overthrow of a kingdom, but of religious rites, is shown by the rejoicings which followed.

  8. France was one of the ten kingdoms, and the overthrow of the church in France, would be the fall of one-tenth of that city.

  9. This, under the next vial, resulted in the overthrow of the French monarchy, and in attempted revolutions in other kingdoms.

  10. The previous trumpets reveal the agencies which effected the dismemberment and overthrow of Western Rome.

  11. He married a Russian lady and established himself in his adopted country, even after the overthrow of Napoleon, and the consequent restoration of the Piedmontese dynasty.

  12. The new malcontents declared that Madero had betrayed the revolution, and that they were going to overthrow him and themselves carry out the promises he had made.

  13. General Victoriano Huerta, Mexico's latest Interim-President, during the first few months that followed his overthrow of the Madero Government found out to his own cost how much harder it is to rule a people than an army.

  14. It spells the overthrow of monarchy, which has existed there for over forty centuries, and the downfall of a dynasty which has been the enemy of human progress for the last two hundred and seventy years.

  15. They are not plotting and planning the overthrow of the government.

  16. The overthrow of Diaz in 1911 did not, as the world had hoped, bring into power an earnest and energetic middle class capable of guiding the downtrodden peons into the blessings of civilization.

  17. Has he heard of machinations going on in Britanny, for the overthrow of all his plans, by the betrayal of him on whom their success depends?

  18. After this battle the select regiment at Argos, called the "Thousand," endeavoured to overthrow the government and establish themselves as masters of the city; and with the assistance of the Lacedaemonians they destroyed the constitution.

  19. So that, in reality, he did more to overthrow polytheism than any of his predecessors, and on that account was doomed to death.

  20. They detested and warmly criticized despotism, but without any open attempt to repress or overthrow existing authority.

  21. The French flag-ship met with a series of untoward accidents, which determined the commodore to withdraw from action; but the statement of his further reasons is most suggestive of the necessary final overthrow of the French cause.

  22. The overthrow of the nabob was followed by placing in power one of the conspirators against him, a creature of the English, and dependent upon them for support.

  23. Jest think how Ernest White, that good devoted minister, has labored and prayed for the good of souls and bodies, and you tryin' your best to overthrow it all.

  24. But it was not until the stormy period which signalised the overthrow of the Eighteenth Egyptian dynasty, that the Hittites succeeded in establishing themselves as far south as Kadesh on the Orontes.

  25. The song of triumph with which the Israelitish fugitives celebrated the overthrow of their Egyptian enemies mentions the alûphím or "dukes" of Edom.

  26. The rise of the Nineteenth dynasty marks the triumph of the national uprising and the overthrow of Asiatic influence.

  27. At all events, the Philistine cities remained in the possession of Judah down to the time of the overthrow of the monarchy, and the most devoted of David's body-guard were the Philistines of Gath.

  28. It may be that Gideon's success against the Midianite oppressors of Gilead was one of the results of their overthrow by the Edomite prince.

  29. The siege ended in the capture and destruction of the city, the death of its king, and the overthrow of his empire.

  30. After the overthrow of the Elamites, Sin-idinnam was restored by Khammurabi to his ancestral principality.

  31. This is a subject, which, as every one must know, has set all Paris by the ears, and attracts almost as much attention there as the overthrow of one dynasty and the creation of another.

  32. After the brilliant victory of the Serbians at Kumanovo, however, and the entry of the Greeks into Salonika, he was forced to admit the overthrow of the Ottoman power.

  33. The Italian people had no concern with the overthrow of the Russian power, which was Austria’s enemy; it wished to devote all its attention to other problems, more absorbing from its own point of view.

  34. It was clear that the supporters of Giolitti, in majority both in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, could, if they chose, overthrow the Government.

  35. A deeper motive than the mere reconquering of Galicia lay behind Von Mackensen's plan--he aimed at nothing less than the complete overthrow and destruction of the Russian armies.

  36. To overthrow King Thibaw was easy, to subdue the people a very different thing.

  37. The overthrow of King Thibaw had not injured any of this.

  38. Therefore, behold, it came to pass that because of the secret combinations of Akish and his friends, behold, they did overthrow the kingdom of Omer.

  39. He confoundeth a man who seeketh to overthrow the doctrine of Christ.

  40. And he preached many things which were flattering unto the people; and this he did that he might overthrow the doctrine of Christ.

  41. For the Lord hath said: This is my church, and I will establish it; and nothing shall overthrow it, save it is the transgression of my people.

  42. And it came to pass that Shiz pursued after Coriantumr, and he did overthrow many cities, and he did slay both women and children, and he did burn the cities.

  43. He connected that with His resurrection, and I honestly believe that if we overthrow the one, we must overthrow the other.

  44. I will grow popular in this State, and overthrow the fortunes of a number, that live by extortion.

  45. It was this that demonstrated, in the most marvelous way, the complete and eternal overthrow of the kingdom of Satan and all the powers of darkness.

  46. Hence the man that touches a single section of the sacred canon is guilty of the heinous sin of seeking to overthrow the word of God; and of such a man even charity itself must say he knows neither the Christ of God nor God Himself.

  47. Yet in this very greatness, wealth, and strength, were the germs of weakness and disease which were eventually to overthrow the great structure reared by Innocent III.

  48. In France Philip Augustus, a tyrannical ruler, ambitious to overthrow the English king, greedy to swallow up the larger fiefs, was on the throne.

  49. Likewise monasticism, through its aggressive missionary efforts, completed the overthrow of heathenism in the Empire and in its stead planted the true faith over western Europe.

  50. They held that Christ came to overthrow Satan and that the Roman Church was the latter's seat.

  51. The overthrow of the kings of Rome did not relieve the people from all their oppression.

  52. The battle ended in the complete overthrow of the army of Vitellius.

  53. Such was the first fatal step in the overthrow of Rome.

  54. Whatever modifications she may have introduced into her immediate programme, she still clings to her desire to overthrow our present civilisation in Europe, and to introduce her own on the ruins of the old order.

  55. Jacobi, notwithstanding this, had often the right side of an argument, and bore his overthrow with the best temper in the world.

  56. I do not know whether my lady-readers have nerves to stand by while "the Berserkers" overthrow the garden-fence.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overthrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; accommodation; adapt; adaptation; adjust; adjustment; alter; alteration; ameliorate; amelioration; answer; apoplexy; apostasy; arise; beating; better; betterment; break; breakdown; breakup; bring; bust; capsize; careen; cashier; cataclysm; catastrophe; change; climax; collapse; confound; confute; conquest; contradict; contradiction; controvert; conversion; convert; convulsion; crash; crush; deathblow; debacle; deck; defeat; defection; deform; degeneration; demolish; demolition; denial; deny; depose; deposition; deprivation; destroy; destruction; deterioration; dethrone; deviation; difference; disaster; discomfiture; discontinuity; dismiss; dismissal; displace; displacement; disprove; dissolution; divergence; diversification; diversify; diversion; diversity; downcast; downfall; drub; earthquake; excommunicate; expel; expulsion; failure; fall; finish; firing; fit; fitting; floor; hiding; honeycomb; improve; improvement; licking; liquidate; liquidation; mastery; meliorate; mitigate; mitigation; modification; modify; modulate; modulation; mutineer; mutiny; oppress; oust; overcome; overmaster; overpower; overset; overthrow; overturn; overwhelm; paroxysm; parry; precipitation; prostration; purge; quake; qualification; qualify; quash; quietus; ravage; realignment; rebel; rebuild; rebut; rebuttal; reconstruct; reform; reformation; refutation; refute; remake; remaking; removal; remove; renew; renewal; reshape; restructure; retire; retirement; reversal; reverse; revival; revive; revolt; revolution; revolutionize; revulsion; riot; rise; rout; ruin; sabotage; settle; shift; silence; smash; somersault; spasm; spill; squash; squelch; strike; stroke; subdual; subduing; subjugation; subversion; subvert; surmount; suspend; suspension; switch; thrashing; throw; tip; topple; transition; trimming; trip; trouncing; tsunami; turn; turnover; undermine; undermining; undoing; unsaddle; unseat; upheaval; uproot; upset; upturn; variation; variety; vary; warming; weaken; whipping; worsen; worsening