How to Use overwhelmingly in a Sentence

overwhelmingly

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bill passed both houses overwhelmingly, and Gov. Mike Parson signed it into law in July 2021.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Traders are now overwhelmingly betting that the first cut will come sometime in the summer, according to futures.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Democrats overwhelmingly supported the bill, with 207 voting for it and two voting against.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In the video, security and event staff are overwhelmingly outnumbered and try to impede the progress of people looking to rush in.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The results in the literature are not overwhelmingly good.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023

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