Thus for two hours they beat over the sands--a distance of nearly two miles--each moment expecting to beoverturned or dashed to pieces on some of the old wrecks.
Through some mismanagement, however, she turned broadside to the sea, was overturned instantly, and rolled over on the beach.
With a rending crash it fell on the boat, overturned it, and held it down, so that its self-righting principle was neutralised.
At last they got into deep water, but just as this was accomplished the mainyard struck it on the side and overturned it in an instant.
Not long ago a small sailboat was overturned in Port Philip Bay with two gentlemen and a lady on board, in addition to the boatman and his boy.
When sailboats and other craft are overturned in storms or sudden squalls and their occupants are thrown into the water, they suffer fearful peril.
In desperation he seized a barrel that chanced to be at hand, and overturned its contents on the heads of the foe.
Two were overturned in the shock, and their horses rolled on them, so that they never rose again.
The overturned omni-buses, of which the barricades had been made, had been righted by the troops.
The third time she escaped she reached the inconsequent barricade of the overturned table.
Swimming as rapidly as she could, Penny reached the overturned boat.
Penny did not return to the overturned boat for several men had waded out to tow it to land.
Here she remained, her eyes occasionally sweeping the bare, sunny expanse of down, that was only relieved from absolute emptiness by the overturned gig hard by.
The guard, scrambling for shelter, joined the four men in the overturned coach.
Wheeling their mounts, the posse, who had lost not a man in the encounter, raced back to the overturned coach.
Bear Claw was about to raise his left hand--a signal for the final rush that would wipe out the white men in the overturned coach--when a terrific volley burst out like rattling thunder from all sides.
The other animals--some wounded, and all of them mad with fright--overturned the old stagecoach.
From theoverturned stage, thin jets of fire streaked steadily, and a pall of white smoke hung over it like a cloud.
The census made a great impression on the Jews, overturned their narrow ideas, and was remembered by them for a long period.
Ever since Andre set foot in our castle, a strange fatality has pursued andoverturned my projects.
But suddenly a fearful noise overpowered the groans of the victims; the enclosure was broken and overturnedby the mob.
The Holy Scriptures expressly say there will be a new earth and a new heaven; and the Lord himself assures us that the foundations of the earth will be overturned and the stars shall fall from the heavens.
Two heavy vases that could not be easily overturned by the wind, standing on the upper block, also contained flowers.
And he made a whip of cords, and drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
And Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops.
Prince Andrew rode up to the hothouse; some of the glass panes were broken, and of the trees in tubs some were overturned and others dried up.
But O'Riley was not to be overturned with impunity.
They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which the Lord gave them.
He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.
The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturnedwith fire.
When we reached the store things remained as we had left them, with blood scattered over the floor, and on the overturned boxes and barrels, while nearly side by side were the bodies of the snake and the robber.
Again the keen knife descended, and this time struck deep, for the wounded animal, with a convulsive spring, overturned the ruffian, and together they rolled upon the floor.
Each smote the other in the centre of the shield, but Palamides's spear broke, while that of Tristram overturned the horse of Palamides.
He has overturned a much bigger fellow than I, and with your kind permission I will not stir up that hornet.
Let us select the climax of her career and show how she overturned a kingdom, passing but lightly over her early and her later years.
Her greatest fame comes from the fact that in less than three years she overturned a kingdom and lost a king his throne.
They hadoverturned the throne, and sent its supporters by thousands to the scaffold or to exile.
Stepping back to save myself from falling I overturned the little table, bearing the six-branched candlestick.
As soon as they had finished these words, the lady overturned the frying-pan, and returned into the open part of the wall, which closed immediately, and became as it was before.
For three years the fair Aleefa lived happy in her splendid prison, but the decree of fate was not to be overcome, and an event predestined by heaven overturned the cautious project of sultan Mherejaun.
After the four fish had answered the young lady, sheoverturned the frying-pan with her rod, and retired into the wall.
But within less than eighteen months, two unexpected revolutions overturned the ambitious schemes of Galerius.
Marie came violently into contact with and nearly overturned Richard Hartley, who was just giving his hat and stick to the man who had admitted him.
It appeared that a delivery boy mounted upon a tricycle cart had turned into the wrong side of the avenue, and had got himself run into and overturned by a motor-car going at a moderate rate of speed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overturned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
