Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: overthrown
IPA transcription: [,oʊvɚθɹ'oʊn]
Pronunciations of overthrown
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Usage examples
  • Take no thought though I am beaten, though I am utterly overthrown.
  • This day I am overthrown by a boy, and yet I cannot help but love thee."
  • The latter were instantly overthrown, and were driven from the field with great slaughter.
  • Nay, all their standards have been overthrown, while the banner of that Oppressed One has been raised to the zenith.
  • Milton in his Hymn on the Nativity shouts harsh Puritanical scorn on the oracles stricken dumb, and the deities overthrown.
  • Nimrod then built a tower so as to ascend to heaven "to see Abraham's god", and make war against Him, but the tower was overthrown.
  • This is true at all times, and especially true in our own. All men and all powers seeking to cope with this irresistible passion, will be overthrown and destroyed by it.
  • It only took twelve years to build it and after standing fifty-six years it was overthrown by an earthquake and after nearly a thousand years the metal was used for other purposes.
  • The optimists, with faith in the perfectability of human nature and of society, believed that all social ills were due to bad government; if despotism were but overthrown, man's nature would develop, untrammeled, to perfection.
  • Barring accidents, for all I can see they would live forever; even then overthrown by avalanches, they refuse to lie at rest, lean stubbornly on their big branches as if anxious to rise, and while a single root holds to the rock, put forth fresh leaves with a grim, never-say-die expression.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George V, License CC BY-SA 4.0