How to Use surmount in a Sentence

surmount

verb

• There can be an old hurdle to surmount before love is free to grow.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• The lopsided first half was just too much to surmount.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
• That's too much for a young roster and new coaching staff to surmount.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• Klum hinted that her costume this year will surmount to something big.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• But the family has, for the most part, been able to surmount these problems.
  — Lorraine Allen, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2021
• And so that's not a hurdle that is going to be very difficult to surmount at all.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
• United will do very well to surmount the challenge posed by Leicester.
  — SI.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Many drink makers are able to surmount these hurdles and secure funding.
  — Patrick McGroarty, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2018
• At the top of the rod is a faceted amethyst monde surmounted by a cross set with more diamonds and an emerald.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
• The grandest challenge for your leadership years may well be to reverse and surmount this threat.
  — WSJ, 18 May 2018
• But the hurdles posed by rising crime have proved difficult for Democrats to surmount in the past.
  — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• Many people believed this couldn’t be surmounted, and work on the problem largely stopped.
  — Michael Moyer, Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2025
• But what was the conflict that needed to be surmounted in order to bring us to this gushing catharsis?
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 June 2024
• Of course, dozens of other states — along with Congress — have been able to surmount those barriers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• That’s a lot of barriers for even the most dedicated baby kissers to surmount.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022
• It was trimmed with lace and appliqué, and the back bustle was topped with a wide ribbon surmounting an elaborate train.
  — Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• Now, the numbers are a lot larger, and Apple's hopes of surmounting them a lot dimmer.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 June 2017
• More condos in the region are also surmounting the $1 million price point.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• So often in his career, Durant had been unable to surmount James.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Penn State javelin thrower Michael Shuey has had to surmount injuries to succeed.
  — Joel Odom, OregonLive.com, 13 June 2017
• Still, some of the fallout from SMA were difficult to surmount.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• Still, if the cells were taken from an animal that had already been killed in a kosher way, that would likely surmount that first hurdle.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2021
• Such is the power of Cassel’s performance that this sequence surmounts camp.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
• Our relationship already took a lot of work, but Cleveland was too much of a hurdle to surmount.
  — Jeanne Li, SELF, 11 Aug. 2017
• Charlotte struggled to surmount her anger and bitterness toward her once-dear sibling.
  — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
• If these hurdles can be surmounted, though, PETase might make a dent in the scourge of plastic waste.
  — The Economist, 16 Apr. 2018
• Baker-Durst, 28, surmounted a number of issues to take the field.
  — Matt Higgins Jalen Wright, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Throughout his career, Johnson has managed to surmount the sort of gaffes that have brought other politicians down.
  — Gregory Katz, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
• These are just some of the obstacles a young designer has to surmount in order to achieve success on Italian shores.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2021
• The Queen Diva, who wore a baseball cap surmounted by plush reindeer antlers through much of the show, was displeased.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2017