How to Use overwhelmingly in a Sentence

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• The action came a few hours after the Senate had voted overwhelmingly to pass the bill by a vote of 77-18.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Middle school and high school students, ages 12 to 17, are, overwhelmingly, the most at-risk.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
• The bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden.
  — Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson, Caroline Linton, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• The new 12th District — which, like the 13th, is overwhelmingly Democratic — includes many of the same constituents.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Machado was the first to go in a selloff overseen by then-GM Dan Duquette that overwhelmingly did not pan out.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• Part-timers at UPS, like myself, overwhelmingly want full-time jobs.
  — Time, 21 July 2023
• Both Covid and flu shots are overwhelmingly safe and effective.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But the reaction in the area of the city where much of the activity would move has not been overwhelmingly positive, either.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Throughout my life it’s been overwhelmingly clear that this is what I am supposed to be doing — that comedy was a clear thing I was born to do.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Again, food is my love language and I’m not used to someone else cooking and providing food for me, so this is overwhelmingly sweet.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 15 June 2023
• Trump played that up to the crowd, which was overwhelmingly pro-Trump, saying the indictments against him represent a two-tiered system.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• The bill passed both houses overwhelmingly, and Gov. Mike Parson signed it into law in July 2021.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
• Traders are now overwhelmingly betting that the first cut will come sometime in the summer, according to futures.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• Democrats overwhelmingly supported the bill, with 207 voting for it and two voting against.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• The results in the literature are not overwhelmingly good.
  — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• The death of the Hamdan sisters illustrates the heavy toll the war is taking on Gaza’s overwhelmingly young population.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• The decline was due overwhelmingly to the fact that a large cohort of streaming-first viewers — kids and teenagers — began returning to school in August.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Texas House voted overwhelmingly to impeach Paxton in May.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Yet potential jurors in Washington, where the case against Mr. Trump will be tried, are overwhelmingly Democrats.
  — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• For Rebel Wilson, most of those changes have been overwhelmingly positive.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
• Detroit was an overwhelmingly Black city but the surrounding county was not.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• The senate heard all the evidence and overwhelmingly voted in favor of his innocence.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Beastie Boys were an unlikely choice for the opening slot, resulting in a lot of booing crowds and overwhelmingly negative press.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2024
• The Fair Times overwhelmingly consists of photographs of fairgoers in situ.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• And teacher-training programs are overwhelmingly whiter than the campuses where they’re housed.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
• Though three prisoners managed to escape custody in the last two weeks, the odds of maintaining their freedom are overwhelmingly against them, an expert says.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The Vietnam antiwar movement was overwhelmingly white, like most campuses of the 1960s.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Worst off were grizzly bears, who overwhelmingly perished near roads—not because they were struck by cars, though that happened, but because roads pumped the woods full of trigger-happy humans.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• Petersburg voted overwhelmingly for Adams, who is Black, giving her about 87 percent of its vote.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• That package also would include a bill that could ban TikTok, which passed the House overwhelmingly with bipartisan support last month but has since languished in the Senate.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024