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How to use overturning in a sentence

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Both the engineer and fireman of the train were killed instantly in the overturning of the giant locomotive.
The vigor of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is thought to be vulnerable to global warming.
His battle with nature will end up taxing all his resourcefulness and overturning his usual elegance.
In so doing, it is overturning all existing relations between states and class.
His eyes seemed to probe into her soul, finding stones and overturning them to find secrets she had been hiding for a long, long time.
It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
Key to overturning Labour's landslides was to remain the party willing to allow people to keep more of their own money.
The High Court upheld his freedom of expression in overturning the conviction.
American politics has assumed the form of a sweeping social reaction, aimed at overturning the reformist legacy of the New Deal.
A police spokesman said the car careered off the road and crashed into a small roadside stone wall before overturning.
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
It was overturning cars and knocking over down buildings, trying desperately to catch Jordan.
Mr Wong was more interested in the cat outside the window than our overturning ships with high metacentres.
But there is nothing inconsistent about leaving it to the states and not overturning the decision.
It hit a local village, overturning boats and snapping trees like matchsticks.
At relatively low shear strains, deformation is apparent from the slight deformation of strain markers, such as the overturning of ice-wedge casts.
While these men were not social revolutionaries bent on overturning the slave system in one bold stroke, nor were they solely foot draggers content to slow production.
They are alarmed even though religious values are serving more as a brake on cultural reform than a vehicle for overturning the left's past advances.
The gleeful, violent overturning of pieties-including the pieties of race and nation-in the name of modernity is precisely what Vorticism announces itself to be about.
But it is unlikely that a new law overturning the practice could be passed in Washington.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In a counterfort, the inclined rods are sufficient to take the overturning stress.
She flings out her arm, overturning the bed table, and then pulls desperately at the bell.
To calm herself the more completely she rose from her little stool and left the room, overturning the stool with her skirts as she went.
At the risk of overturning the machine he veered it sharply to the left.
He heard the overturning of a table or a chair and the crash of glassware.
Struve leaped instantly to his feet, overturning his chair in his haste.
At the first shot Dutchy sank upon the table, overturning his mug of coffee, his yellow mop of hair dabbling in his plate of mush.
Has he any objection to make to them which would justify him in overturning them?
The human tide now swept by, after overturning Fix, who speedily got upon his feet again, though with tattered clothes.
A decision by this Court overturning the ruling below would vivify the constitutional due process restraints governing the enactment of retroactive laws.
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