How to use overborne in a sentence
overborne by their counsels, after lying in front of the position for three days he withdrew to Ciudad Rodrigo.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonNot long was the combat, for Calf was overborne by odds and fled with his folk.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonThe captain killed several of the Indians with his knife, and was the last to fall, overborne in the end by numbers.
South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend BradyOne instant I saw the banker toss his arms like a semaphore; the next we were overborne.
Where the Pavement Ends | John RussellBut these were soon overborne and silenced by a greater number, who now again called upon Probus to fill that office.
Aurelian | William Ware
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