How to Use overthrow in a Sentence

overthrow

verb

• The quarterback overthrew his receiver.
• Purdy’s pass was overthrown and Samuel had no chance of catching the ball.
  — Jose Carlos Fajardo, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Late in the third quarter Stafford overthrew a wide-open Henderson, who had acres of open field ahead of him to the end zone.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• For the current moment, Olivia is the reigning princess of pop-punk, and no one seems to be overthrowing her any time soon.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2023
• Prosecutors have framed the vote as part of a wider move to overthrow the government at the time.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
• That did not deter the protestors who showed up near a statue of King Charles I, a monarch who was overthrown 400 years ago.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
• Purdy overthrew Deebo Samuel, who had beaten his man in the end zone, but then found Jennings for a 10-yard score.
  — Brett Knight, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• Each side has distinct ideas about how best to overthrow the system, after all.
  — David Masciotra, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
• President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown the next year.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 Apr. 2023
• Gang leaders have to pay their soldiers or else risk being overthrown.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Many were members of guerrilla movements that had vowed to overthrow the state.
  — Peter Canby, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2022
• In office, Chiang nurtured the dream that his forces would return to the mainland and overthrow the Communists.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• By the 1979 Islamic Revolution, some of the women who helped overthrow the shah embraced the chador, a cloak that covers the body from head to toe, except for the face.
  — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
• She was later hailed as a martyr for her role in the revolution after the empire was overthrown in 1911.
  — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps the only way to overthrow an oppressor that refuses to budge or compromise might in the end come down to fire and fists.
  — Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• The charges, of trying to overthrow the government, essentially, go right to the heart of the Constitution.
  — Margaret M. Russell, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2022
• But Refsnyder overthrew Arroyo and the ball fell into the glove of Triston Casas, the second cutoff man.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• As a young man, he was arrested and accused of trying to overthrow the government.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• Lynam told the source the Boogaloo group is for those who wish to violently overthrow the U.S. government.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• But one week later, before the meeting could happen, the Kaboré government was overthrown.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• The right has long called climate change a leftist Trojan horse to overthrow capitalism.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• Since failing to overthrow the 2020 election, he has been embroiled in legal drama.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• In another, Maoists lived communally and worked to overthrow the state.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• The mayor of Caracas is arrested and accused of being involved in a plot to overthrow the government.
  — CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• Prigozhin’s clumsy, reckless mutiny was neither a blatant power grab nor an attempt to overthrow the regime.
  — Time, 30 June 2023
• One of his misfires was overthrowing a receiver 70 yards away, and, of course, hitting the ceiling with another pass.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 30 Mar. 2023
• The 1804 revolution that overthrew colonial France was the most successful slave revolt in history and spawned the first free Black republic in the world.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• The Kapp Putsch, or coup, in 1920 tried but failed to overthrow the government in Berlin, which its supporters saw as illegitimate.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• But, just to clarify, the idea that Kissinger did not want to meddle in states, internally: this is a guy who prolonged the Vietnam War and helped overthrow the government in Chile.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• After overthrowing al-Bashir and carrying out a coup, Burhan became Sudan's de facto ruler with Hemedti as his right-hand man.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 4 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024