How to Use overburden in a Sentence

overburden

verb

• She overburdened me with work.
• Why overburden yourself when people are offering to help?
• All of them agreed soldiers were overburdened and looked for ways to decrease the weight.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
• The state will own the new two-track span, to be constructed alongside the aged and overburdened Long Bridge.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• This didn't seem like a film that was overburdened by studio notes.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Our bodies are overburdened, yet no one seems to care nor do people know how to handle it.
  — Rose-Marie Swift, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 May 2015
• Pepper is not meant to overburden your palate, but to stimulate it with an interplay of flavors, and to bring your mouth to life.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2019
• Lombardy provides a grim picture of how the virus’s danger grows when a health system is overburdened.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2020
• The light foam paste and polyurethane is built for maximum lightness and helps your pet roam freely rather than be overburdened by unneeded weight.
  — Juquai McDuffie, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2017
• The Steelers overburdened the Bengals' offensive line in the second half.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• For all the grand lushness and inventive production design of its time in Paris, the show felt vaguely lost and overburdened.
  — Angelica Jade BastiÉn, New York Times, 28 May 2016
• Should the team be worried about one of their biggest stars being overburdened with more games with a possible playoff run on the horizon?
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• Biden’s plan earned broad support from Democrats across the country who argued people are overburdened by student loan debt.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• But not, apparently, one that would overburden the health care systems.
  — oregonlive, 13 July 2022
• The other thing is that community health doctors may be overburdened and burned out and required to address a lot of issues.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 23 Feb. 2023
• Among the findings were that its mental health clinicians were overburdened.
  — Madeline Buckley, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
• The key to managing business credit during a crisis is to not overburden yourself with debt during the good times.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Shoppers who wove in and out of Houston Street stores all day didn’t want to be approached more than once, especially if they were overburdened with packages.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 27 July 2019
• These details along with iron chandeliers in several of the rooms gently evoke the past, but none is overburdened by history.
  — Ted Loos, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• G.E. took a hit a few years later when that company, suffering from a steep decline in sales and overburdened by a heavy debt load, filed for bankruptcy.
  — Julie Creswell, New York Times, 12 June 2017
• And so on and on, with no answers in sight—except maybe that the show is overburdened by hip pretension, and its length and locale make that squirmingly apparent.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 19 Oct. 2017
• Since there were still dozens of cases from last summer’s petition that had not yet been resolved, Reddick agreed to split the list of cases into three parts, so as not to overburden the schedule.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• The lone Pelicans defender on the play looked overmatched, overwhelmed and overburdened.
  — Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
• The Bulls have made clear all season that not overburdening Markkanen is a priority.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Given his importance to the future, overburdening Bello in the second half would be a mistake.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• The trick is doing so without overburdening him or oversimplifying the offense in the process.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 July 2019
• But the Democratic state legislator says too many mothers are overburdened by high child care costs.
  — Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2024
• And far from overburdening the Fed, the FedAccounts would likely generate hundreds of billions of dollars.
  — David Dayen, The New Republic, 13 June 2018
• Because of the scarcity of providers, the current mental health professionals are overburdened.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2023
• The bankruptcy trustee alleged the producers and Lemonis worked to divide the business owners and overburden the company with debt.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024