How do you use Overdriven in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Overdriven in a sentence
Overdriven meaning
Driven too hard, or beyond normal limits; exhausted.
Using Overdriven
- The main meaning on this page is: Driven too hard, or beyond normal limits; exhausted.
- In the example corpus, overdriven often appears in combinations such as: overdriven guitar.
Context around Overdriven
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overdriven
- In this selection, "overdriven" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sprawling, slightly, tunefully, guitar, refresh and nature stand out and add context to how "overdriven" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a buzzy overdriven sound via and a sprawling overdriven journey into. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overdriven" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overdriven
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s haunting, with slightly overdriven acoustic guitar, just enough to give the tone some texture. (16 words)
Similarly, an overdriven transistor amplifier can take on the characteristics of a controlled switch having essentially two levels of output. (20 words)
Over the generator, the buzz of the shears, the overdriven modern rock radio, he called for another one, and another $2.60 cents in his pocket. (26 words)
It starts with a lengthy instrumental intro that isn’t far removed from R.E.M. before coasting into a uptempo pop song built around a tunefully overdriven guitar riff and Hubley’s hushed vocals, which are buried in the mix. (41 words)
While AT cuts tend to be fairly forgiving, with only their electrical parameters, stability and aging characteristics being degraded when overdriven, low-frequency crystals, especially flexural-mode ones, may fracture at too high drive levels. (35 words)
Fuzz bass (also called "bass overdrive") is a style of playing the electric bass that produces a buzzy, overdriven sound via a tube or transistor amp or by using a fuzz or overdrive pedal. (34 words)
Example sentences (11)
As is typical of VA panels, the Nitro XZ272U shows some black smearing when at overdriven refresh rates, but it's much less pronounced than competing options.
There’s also nothing worse than the muddy undertones and overdriven nature of a sub that doesn’t quite cut the mustard (but may have been easy on the wallet).
On Will You Return When You Come Down, saccharine violins wrap around you like strings of candy floss, while Assassins of Youth deals in a sprawling, overdriven journey into indie dystopia.
It’s haunting, with slightly overdriven acoustic guitar, just enough to give the tone some texture.
It starts with a lengthy instrumental intro that isn’t far removed from R.E.M. before coasting into a uptempo pop song built around a tunefully overdriven guitar riff and Hubley’s hushed vocals, which are buried in the mix.
Over the generator, the buzz of the shears, the overdriven modern rock radio, he called for another one, and another $2.60 cents in his pocket.
An inappropriate value of the tank capacitor caused the crystal in a control board to be overdriven, jumping to an overtone, and causing the train to speed up instead of slowing down.
Fuzz bass (also called "bass overdrive") is a style of playing the electric bass that produces a buzzy, overdriven sound via a tube or transistor amp or by using a fuzz or overdrive pedal.
Oldfield used a modified Roland GP8 effects processor in conjunction with his PRS Artist to get many of his heavily overdriven guitar sounds from the Earth Moving album onwards.
Similarly, an overdriven transistor amplifier can take on the characteristics of a controlled switch having essentially two levels of output.
While AT cuts tend to be fairly forgiving, with only their electrical parameters, stability and aging characteristics being degraded when overdriven, low-frequency crystals, especially flexural-mode ones, may fracture at too high drive levels.
Common combinations with overdriven
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: