What is "overwhelmed"

Usage examples of "overwhelmed".

She took another swallow of the drink, welcoming the warmth that exploded in the pit of her stomach and overwhelmed the heat of thoughts of Billy.

His tone was curt, harsh, and evoked in Shelby an anger that overwhelmed her battered exhaustion.

She leaned back against the seat and stared at Billy, suddenly overwhelmed by the daunting task ahead of them.

She was drawn, overwhelmed, lost in the impassibly blue depths of his eyes, and felt the deep, pleasurable sensation again.

Jondalar looked, but he was too overwhelmed to focus his vision on anything less than the full expanse.

He had never patted a living horse before, nor gotten so close to a fuzzy new foal, and he was slightly overwhelmed by their total lack of fear.

They were a challenge, and they could hold their own and not be so easily overwhelmed by his own passions on the rare occasions when they were expressed.

My friends, I am entirely overwhelmed by the magnificence of the reception which has been given, I will not say to me, but to the President-elect of the United States of America.

ADDRESS AT ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1861 I confess myself, after having seen many large audiences since leaving home, overwhelmed with this vast number of faces at this hour of the morning.

Please do as I directed in the order of the 8th and my despatch of yesterday, the 12th, and neither you nor Banks will be overwhelmed by Jackson.

It is now the end of this, and I have just been overwhelmed and confounded with the sight of a requisition made by you which, I am assured, cannot be filled and got off within an hour short of two months.

Ascertain from statistics the small proportion of the region which has yet been brought into cultivation, and also the large and rapidly increasing amount of products, and we shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented.

It seems to me the Government here will be overwhelmed if it undertakes to conduct these matters with the authorities of cities and counties.

The bomb-throwing marauders disabled several ack emplacements and others were overwhelmed by squadrons which swooped below the level of the tower tops and thus out of range, then swarmed upward to attack the crews with their hooks and spears.

He was engulfed by the flames before he landed amid the remains of the previous victims, his screams overwhelmed by their roar.