When started, the alarm becomes contagious--makes a run upon all banks; and overturns the good as well as the bad.
This, sir, is a fact which contains an argument which overturns all that can be said on this floor against the detention of Osceola.
He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
He overturns everything, disfigures everything; he loves deformity, monsters; he desires that nothing should be as nature made it, not even man himself.
He resists; he does more: not content with preferring himself to his neighbor, he labors constantly to destroy his neighbor; after having betrayed love through egoism, he overturns it by injustice.
A little success intoxicates man with confidence; a reverse overturns and confounds him.
He loses all right to government, who, by that government, overturns the common-weal.
These they attack before and behind; one of them seizes on the buffalo by the hind-quarter, and overturns him, the others strangle him.
Its wood is not harder than that of a cabbage, and its trunk is so soft that the least wind overturns it, so that I never saw any but what were lying on the ground.
So it is always: what imagination builds up in a long time, criticism overturns in a twinkle.
With a breath He overturns the sceptres of kings--with a breath He hurls our crowns to earth, until, cowering at His feet, we acknowledge our unworthiness.
Now by these discourses and reasonings he overturns not the life of man, but drives from it presumption and arrogance, and those haughty and extravagant opinions and conceits he has of himself.
That the spirit is held within the earth they consider is caused by the sea, which sometimes obstructs the channels going outward, and sometimes by withdrawing, overturns parts of the earth.
We conclude, therefore, that the apostle Paul, in this famous passage, overturns the whole principle of verbal Orthodoxy.
On the other hand, these notions of Malebranche completely overturnsall the theological doctrines of free agency.
There is a god called Cupid, Mr. Brendon, who overturns our plans as yonder plough-share overturns the secret homes of beetle and worm.
The hoarding miser is like a fog that infests the air; the prodigal resembles an outrageous storm that overturns all in its way.
Of four-in-hand he gains the vulgar rage: Wields his long whip, andoverturns a stage.
Death can contrive to strike his blows By overturns and overthrows.
When a bucket has been drawn up, whether filled with dry or wet materials, it must be emptied, and a workman inserts a grappling hook and overturns it; this hook hangs on a chain made of three or four links, fixed to a timber.
Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a transport of republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy.
He presides over overturns and all escapes therefrom, it seems: and they dedicate pictures, &c.
She modestly desires the servant to put out the lamp, and, while groping her way in the dark, she overturns it.
This observation overturns the doctrine which places value in the /materiality/ of things.
An exact analysis of value overturns this scaffolding of [p226] subtilties intended to prop up a monstrous assimilation of Property with Spoliation.
This is a magnificent Law, which overturns the melancholy theory of Ricardo; and it will be explained more in detail when we come to the subject of landed property.
And very often have we heard How men are killed and undone By overturns of carriages, By thieves and fires in London.
Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a transport of Republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy.
All that Dostoiewsky has written bears the same character; it wrings the soul, perverts the imagination, overturns one's ideas of right and wrong to an incredible degree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overturns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
