How to Use surmount in a Sentence

surmount

verb

• How do long-term needs surmount the short-term pressures?
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2014
• But the family has, for the most part, been able to surmount these problems.
  — Lorraine Allen, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2021
• That's too much for a young roster and new coaching staff to surmount.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• There is a hurdle to surmount before love is free to grow.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2020
• The fans of the Cardinals saw Pujols surmount the sport for 11 seasons.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• There can be an old hurdle to surmount before love is free to grow.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• At the top of the rod is a faceted amethyst monde surmounted by a cross set with more diamonds and an emerald.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
• Still, some of the fallout from SMA were difficult to surmount.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• To win the case, Trump’s opponents have to surmount some big hurdles.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• If these hurdles can be surmounted, though, PETase might make a dent in the scourge of plastic waste.
  — The Economist, 16 Apr. 2018
• But the hurdles posed by rising crime have proved difficult for Democrats to surmount in the past.
  — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• A: And that's what can't happen again, digging the type of 30-11 hole the ultimately proved too much to surmount.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 July 2017
• And so that's not a hurdle that is going to be very difficult to surmount at all.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
• United will do very well to surmount the challenge posed by Leicester.
  — SI.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Look at the design of the shelters at the stations, with their bold stanchions, curved roofs surmounted by heavy finials.
  — Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• Penn State javelin thrower Michael Shuey has had to surmount injuries to succeed.
  — Joel Odom, OregonLive.com, 13 June 2017
• For with them too came a domed plastic lid, the Hill of Destiny, surmounting a steep pile of cream through which straws had to plunge to do their duty.
  — The Economist, 31 Dec. 2019
• Baker-Durst, 28, surmounted a number of issues to take the field.
  — Matt Higgins Jalen Wright, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Now, the numbers are a lot larger, and Apple's hopes of surmounting them a lot dimmer.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 June 2017
• Like a tsar, Mr Putin surmounts a pyramid of patronage.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• The Queen Diva, who wore a baseball cap surmounted by plush reindeer antlers through much of the show, was displeased.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• Piersall returned to the Red Sox in 1953 and seemed to have surmounted his emotional demons.
  — Richard Goldstein, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2017
• Of course, dozens of other states — along with Congress — have been able to surmount those barriers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• Klum hinted that her costume this year will surmount to something big.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• But even if that happens, there’s a far larger obstacle to surmount: whether people want this in the first place.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2022
• Most of these, including the one at Campo-Formio, are surmounted by a pair of Art Nouveau lamps.
  — Andrew Martin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2024
• The grandest challenge for your leadership years may well be to reverse and surmount this threat.
  — WSJ, 18 May 2018
• More condos in the region are also surmounting the $1 million price point.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• However, since the time Arizona had its first desert-sheep season about 20 years ago, 86 nonresidents have surmounted the desert-sheep hurdle there.
  — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
• This is exactly the kind of political challenge Modi was elected to surmount: The central government must devise and strongly support a clear set of labor law reforms.
  — Derek Scissors, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2014

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024