9 example sentences using overthrow.
Overthrow used in a sentence
Overthrow in a sentence as a noun
" "have you ever heard them talk about overthrowing the government?
It's not like they are threatening to overthrow the US labor market, accounting for maybe 10k jobs a year.
He showed precisely how to overthrow the existing order, but he did not say how matters should proceed thereafter.
We have become soft and there is nothing you can do about it. Instead of writing intellectual comments on the matter, we should go down the street, burn some tires, overthrow the government; stuff like that.
This would be to overthrow in fact what was established in theory; and would seem, at first view, an absurdity too gross to be insisted on.
Overthrow in a sentence as a verb
For FM, if allowed to develop unrestrained, posed ... a complete reordering of radio power ... and the eventual overthrow of the carefully restricted AM system on which RCA had grown to power.
Islamic terrorists, in fact, want a pan-world government under Talibanesque repressive sharia law, a vision that mandates the overthrow of all free nations beginning with ours.
That the Enlightenment of the 18th Century brought forth modern notions of representative democracy was in large part a reaction to the failure and catastrophic overthrow of the feudal order that had existed prior to that time.
And this is the same government that's invading sovereign countries, has its agencies undertake black operations to overthrow foreign democratically elected bodies that don't serve its interests [1], all in the name of bringing "democracy" to those regions.
Overthrow definitions
the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force)
the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
See also: upset derangement
cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class"