Wondering how to use Overturn in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as upset or reverse.
Overturn in a sentence
Related words
Overturn meaning
- To turn over, capsize or upset.
- To overthrow or destroy.
- To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
Example sentences (20)
Last week, the House that would use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the president’s debt cancellation plan.
The conservative 6-3 majority voted last year to overturn New York’s longstanding restrictions on concealed weapons.
Families of victims have virtually no recourse to overturn the pardons, said Ilya Politkovsky, Anna Politkovskaya’s son.
Pence could be a key figure in Trump's criminal trial for purportedly trying to overturn the election in 2020.
That's what the new Republican House speaker, who tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020, believes.
A special counsel is currently overseeing a criminal investigation into January 6 and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Shortly after a leak revealed the Supreme Court planned to overturn Roe v. Wade, users ran into an ill-timed solution: fetus.
And what it does is it helps prosecutors, investigators understand Trump’s state of mind too in efforts to overturn the election.
Greg Swenson was speaking after the former US president pleaded not guilty to trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Leads of that magnitude in games with the stakes as high as these are often impossible to overturn.
Stauber, who signed an amicus brief that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, is not.
On June 21st, several state officials testified that Trump and his allies pressured them to overturn losses in certain swing states.
A Georgia grand jury indicted Trump, along with 18 of his allies, in August on charges tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Everyone has heard the recordings of Trump trying to get election officials there to “find” enough votes to overturn the 2020 result.
Some district attorneys, not including Willis, are already suing to overturn the law, saying it improperly infringes on their authority.
Ten teenagers who murdered an 18-year-old as he walked home from a funfair have lost Court of Appeal bids to overturn their convictions.
At least 13 states have banned most abortions in the nine months following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year.
It comes as an appeal by Idyllic Estates to overturn council refusal of permission for nine homes off Woodland Way, Waltham, was rejected.
A city centre shop has successfully managed to overturn some of the conditions imposed after concerns of anti-social behaviour were raised.
Not to mention, four of the five Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe were men.
Common combinations with overturn
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to overturn 170×
- overturn the 96×
- overturn his 12×
- overturn roe 10×
- overturn an 4×
- not overturn 4×
- overturn election 3×
- overturn their 3×
- overturn or 3×
- and overturn 3×
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