How to Use overwhelmingly in a Sentence

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• The House overwhelmingly approved the bill on a 143-5 vote and heads to the Senate.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In the early 1970s, the march, like the movement, was overwhelmingly Catholic.
  — Michelle Boorstein and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
• But overwhelmingly this is what the public has asked us to do for years.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2023
• The action came a few hours after the Senate had voted overwhelmingly to pass the bill by a vote of 77-18.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Middle school and high school students, ages 12 to 17, are, overwhelmingly, the most at-risk.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
• The bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Senate and signed by President Biden.
  — Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson, Caroline Linton, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Late Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill overwhelmingly, 79 to 18.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
• More than 5,000 people have reviewed it, and the grades are overwhelmingly strong.
  — Clint Davis, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
• In the cases where arrests have been made, the suspects were overwhelmingly Black.
  — Gary Fields, ajc, 4 Feb. 2023
• But as has been the case since last week, the feedback skewed overwhelmingly negative.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 14 May 2024
• The new 12th District — which, like the 13th, is overwhelmingly Democratic — includes many of the same constituents.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Machado was the first to go in a selloff overseen by then-GM Dan Duquette that overwhelmingly did not pan out.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• The passengers voted overwhelmingly for the first option, to see more of Africa.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Sep. 2024
• When the first proposal, which was backed by both sides, was put to a vote last month, employees overwhelmingly turned it down.
  — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
• Part-timers at UPS, like myself, overwhelmingly want full-time jobs.
  — Time, 21 July 2023
• Israelis calling for a cease-fire are driven overwhelmingly by the hostages’ plight.
  — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
• The comments were overwhelmingly against the project, EPA officials have said.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
• Both Covid and flu shots are overwhelmingly safe and effective.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But the reaction in the area of the city where much of the activity would move has not been overwhelmingly positive, either.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Throughout my life it’s been overwhelmingly clear that this is what I am supposed to be doing — that comedy was a clear thing I was born to do.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Again, food is my love language and I’m not used to someone else cooking and providing food for me, so this is overwhelmingly sweet.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 15 June 2023
• Trump played that up to the crowd, which was overwhelmingly pro-Trump, saying the indictments against him represent a two-tiered system.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• The bill passed both houses overwhelmingly, and Gov. Mike Parson signed it into law in July 2021.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
• Traders are now overwhelmingly betting that the first cut will come sometime in the summer, according to futures.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• Democrats overwhelmingly supported the bill, with 207 voting for it and two voting against.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• In the video, security and event staff are overwhelmingly outnumbered and try to impede the progress of people looking to rush in.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• The results in the literature are not overwhelmingly good.
  — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• The death of the Hamdan sisters illustrates the heavy toll the war is taking on Gaza’s overwhelmingly young population.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• From the hospitality suites to the nosebleed seats, supporters who travel from overseas to watch Spurs overwhelmingly do so for Heung Min Son.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• The market still overwhelmingly expects the Fed to cut its target rate by 25 basis points following its jumbo 50-basis-point cut in September that kicked off the central bank’s monetary easing campaign.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024