OVERSHADOW in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for OVERSHADOW, such as:
1. His recent death would overshadow the family gathering.
2. Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
3. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
4. Her interest in politics began to overshadow her desire to be a poet.
5. Despite her professional success, she was always overshadowed by her husband.
2. Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
3. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
4. Her interest in politics began to overshadow her desire to be a poet.
5. Despite her professional success, she was always overshadowed by her husband.
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Meanings and Examples of OVERSHADOW
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overshadow
v. be greater in significance than
v. cast a shadow upon
Classic Sentence:
1 Because to-morrow, Haidee, you will be free; you will then assume your proper position in society, for I will not allow my destiny to overshadow yours.
2 Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
3 My tears flow; my mind is overshadowed by a cloud of disappointment.
4 His fame, though still on its upward slope, already overshadowed the soberer reputations of his fellow-clergymen, eminent as several of them were.
5 Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him.
6 In the dark hours which followed, that awful fact overshadowed even her father's slow and difficult dying.
7 The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances.
8 As the days wore on, and no ill news came, as the day closed in and darkness fell, my overshadowing dread of being disabled by illness before to-morrow morning altogether mastered me.
9 There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground.
10 Yet therewith many a diverse-worded counsel is for Turnus, and the great name of the queen overshadows him, and he rises high in renown of trophies fitly won.
Example Sentence:
1 Her interest in politics began to overshadow her desire to be a poet.
2 Fears for the President's safety could overshadow his peace-making mission.
3 His recent death would overshadow the family gathering.
4 Despite her professional success, she was always overshadowed by her husband.
5 Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.