How to Use overturn in a Sentence

overturn

1 of 2 verb

• The dog overturned the bowl.
• The truck went off the road and overturned several times.
• The court overturned his conviction.
• That was the status quo that got overturned a year ago.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2023
• The truck became airborne, then overturned, and came to a rest in a creek on its top side.
  — Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
• The call was not overturned, but Mac Jones rushed two yards on fourth down to continue the drive.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Humvee then traveled off the right side of the highway and overturned into a nearby tree line.
  — The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2024
• The truck had overturned in a creek sometime around Dec. 20, police said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2023
• The car overturned and threw the passengers from the vehicle, the statement said.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• The night Roe was overturned, there was talk of violence in the streets of America.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
• The private prison ban was later overturned by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Half of those death sentences were overturned and only three inmates were put to death.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
• That’s a far cry from repairing the damage done by overturning Roe.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• The truck overturned and crashed into a tree before coming to rest at the bottom of an embankment.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
• The play was review, but wasn’t enough clear and obvious evidence to overturn the call.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2023
• The move overturns another judge’s decision last month to drop all charges against the ex-officer.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The Ohio Senate will also need to vote in order to overturn the governor’s veto.
  — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2024
• There are far sounder tools for addressing Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• This case is just one of a number of murder convictions to be overturned years afterward.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• Last week, Kathryn Griffin Townsend’s lawyers dropped their efforts to overturn that verdict, ending that leg of the legal battle.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
• Now, more than a century later, the Army has overturned these convictions.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• But the courts overturned Proposition B, forcing the city to create retroactive pensions for more than 5,000 workers.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• Biden and others said Trump is trying to make people forget his central role in overturning Roe.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• After initially being called a touchdown, Thorne’s dive at the pylon was reviewed and it the call was overturned, instead giving Auburn a first down from the 1-yard line.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• Trump had asked the court to overturn the Colorado ruling without even hearing arguments.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Years in the making, the litigation arrived as the nation continued to wrestle with the fallout from the decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• The execution took place hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an order that had delayed the death sentence from being carried out.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But then the case was reheard by the full federal appeals court, which overturned the panel ruling in October 2022.
  — CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
• My one neat trick for avoiding indictments charging me with trying to overturn an election is to not try to overturn an election.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• Giuliani also faces disbarment for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023

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overturn

2 of 2 noun

• Will the backlash against the overturn of Roe help tip any of these races?
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
• If one sweep of the cameras doesn’t show an easy overturn, keep the play as is.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 3 May 2018
• Could the Supreme Court overturn these laws on 2nd Amendment grounds?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
• Lizzo was among the many artists to speak out against the overturn of Roe v. Wade Friday.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2022
• In short, Ball called for a complete overturn of the class system.
  — Susan Wade, The Conversation, 5 June 2020
• Part of that erosion: the overturn of the Affordable Care Act.
  — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
• The decision came in what is believed to be the first such case since the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade.
  — Abigail Wilpers, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
• The onside kick overturn came after Auburn scored its first touchdown of the game with 10:04 to play.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 17 Nov. 2019
• Her case illustrates some of what’s at stake, should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
  — Adebayo Adesomo, Scientific American, 30 May 2022
• In the last two-minute report released by the NBA the next day, the league determined the overturn on Young’s charge as the correct call.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2018
• States continue to respond to the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 5 July 2022
• The overturn turned out to be even bigger when Tucker Barnhart doubled to score Schebler and give the Reds a 4-3 lead.
  — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• That number jumped to 90 in the week following Roe’s overturn.
  — Wired, 24 July 2022
• The most frustrating call for Auburn, though, had to be the overturn of Williams’ would-be 17-yard reception.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 17 Nov. 2019
• Authorities said the impact of the crash caused Hopkins' car to veer off the road and overturn into a ditch.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2022
• Register the group was receiving about 30 calls per day ahead of the June 24 overturn of Roe v. Wade.
  — Brianne Pfannenstiel, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
• Davis blocked four shots and had a review overturn what would’ve likely been a game-sealing steal.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• And as the climate warms, the waters at high latitude might not sink, or overturn, as much, slowing the AMOC.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2019
• Brink said her clinic has already been overwhelmed by a surge in out-of-state patients since the overturn of Roe.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
• The first is the overturn-without-overturning approach.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 5 Oct. 2018
• The Dodge then struck the right side of the Jeep, causing the sport utility vehicle to veer off the road and overturn, according to reports.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
• The overturn had overwhelmed the usual after-Derby talk.
  — oregonlive, 5 May 2019
• The prospect of the overturn of Roe v. Wade has sparked observations about the book's prescience and relevance to modern events.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 May 2022
• Will the court uphold Mississippi's 15-week ban and overturn Roe v. Wade?
  — ABC News, 5 Dec. 2021
• On the bench, McAvoy saw the green light flashing on a monitor, signaling an overturn from the league office in Toronto.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• One person whose legacy is going to get defined by the overturn of Roe v. Wade is Donald Trump.
  — NBC News, 26 June 2022
• What workers need to know about the overturn of Roe: Workplace political talk can be taboo.
  — Jena McGregor, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• JaCoby Jones, who doubled twice, scored from second base on the overturn.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2018
• More broadly, by 3 to 1, women overall see the overturn of Roe as a step backward, not forward, for women's rights.
  — Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, CBS News, 21 June 2023
• The current court seems poised to either overturn or drastically scale back Roe v. Wade.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024