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
• Simply put, the game is massive, and can feel overwhelmingly so.
  — Richard Newby, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
• The victims of this violence, HRC reports, are overwhelmingly Black, under the age of 35 and killed by a firearm.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved the creation of the Ohio Ballot Board in a 1974 vote.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Last month, voters overwhelmingly agreed to extend funding again at the same tax rate that's been in place nearly 40 years.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Kentucky was the first state called for Trump in 2020, and the commonwealth is expected to overwhelmingly vote in his favor again.
  — Dann Miller, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
• Markets pricing overwhelmingly points to the Fed staying on hold at the Jan. 28-29 meeting.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Reddit users overwhelmingly advised the bride to take her SIL's threats seriously.
  — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
• Kansas, which voted overwhelmingly for Trump, missed a legal deadline for certifying its six Electoral College votes – a mistake that risked disenfranchising the state’s 1.3 million voters if members of Congress had objected.
  — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2025