How to Use overweening in a Sentence

overweening

adjective

• That does not just mean the overweening clout of the tech titan or the oil baron.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• That book in turn became the companion of some of the world’s most overweening leaders.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• Its weakness is in its overweening trust of the photograph as a faithful reporter.
  — Charles Desmarais, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
• There is no answer to the overweening question of why the disaster happened.
  — Lisa Levy, New Republic, 9 Oct. 2017
• What is remarkable about these pieces isn’t their bravery in the face of an overweening majority.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 17 Jan. 2018
• There are more talented players than ever, and this fact could blunt, just slightly, the power of the overweening stars.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• Out of an overweening sense of modesty, perhaps, this won’t really come across to the uninitiated.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
• But there’s no real idea of the character beyond an overweening shamelessness.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Racial bias and the overweening influence of money were cited by the pro-democracy think tank as part of the reason for the decline.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• The biggest of these is the sheer overweening dependence of many of its members on their favorite commodity.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• The beat is Opium-level rage, but a techno track slips in early like the cross-channel bleed of an overweening radio station.
  — Pitchfork, 2 Dec. 2024
• Ethnic groups with grievances towards an overweening army and state live in overlapping territories.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Public sentiment does not rest with the oligarchs, whom many in both parties see as an overweening threat to competition and privacy.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021
• This is one sick twist of a tryst, with the two forming a strange — and ultimately tiresome — double helix of sadomasochistic desire and overweening ego.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Going to Chicken & Biscuits does feel like being fed by loving but overweening relatives.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021
• What Buñuel and a few others spotted was that for all its overweening gigantism, Guernica is essentially a piece of kitsch.
  — John Banville, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• This diminution of news might be a way for Facebook to walk away from the public sphere—or, at least, appear to walk away—at a time when it has been taken to task for its overweening influence there.
  — Eric Klinenberg, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
• In mounting the expedition, the Major was no doubt motivated by the sheer challenge—or, as his critics would say, by an overweening drive for glory.
  — Gerard Helferich, WSJ, 19 July 2018
• Where Chappaquiddick succeeds is in showing the overweening nature of the Kennedy myth—no one is more sick of the Kennedys than Ted, who longs to escape his fate.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
• The task is to manage the dangerous interactions between a fearful political class and an overweening medical class.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
• There’s no serious likelihood that the behavior of these global behemoths will be crimped by these scoldings from some overweening Senate committee.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2012
• And while there’s a variety of technology on the market designed to address this group, to which my partner and I belong, a lot of it seems somewhat overweening—and doesn’t really work.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 17 July 2024
• Fielder gives a room-temperature deadpan performance as a lonely hustler who has overweening confidence but limited social skills.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• That gloss overlooked the reality that people with little wealth or power frequently are forced to contend with overweening bureaucrats who invent their own authority and play by their own rules.
  — Jacob Sullum, Orange County Register, 8 July 2024
• The resulting flood of revenue allows owners to consistently lure top talent, but, in return, breeds overweening expectations in fans — who can be merciless when players fail to live up to the hype.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• The case for the prosecution has been her snobbery, self-absorption, humorlessness, conservatism and overweening privilege.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Two decades ago, the Twin Towers were attacked because they were seen as emblems of capitalist arrogance; the complex that replaced them is a monument to overweening caution.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
• For decades, conservatives have complained about overweening government stepping on local control and individual rights.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• At the federal level, the Justices have been active in striking down overweening regulations on political expression.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• The only development has been the placement of a wooden plank in the ground, creating a fence that is as narrow as the property and as overweening as the reach of property rights in New York City.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 24 June 2022