Sentence example with the word 'overstep'

overstep

abuse a privilege, encroach, go beyond, inconvenience, irrupt, obtrude upon, overjump, overrun, overstep the bounds, presume upon, take liberties, trouble

Definition v. pass beyond

Last update: August 4, 2015


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What Austria desired to be was a state at once conciliatory and just, and it opposed no national demand which did not overstep the limits of state security; but this loosing of bonds unchained at the same time a number of national passions before which the state retired step by step.   [Please select]

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Social problems overstep frontiers.   [Please select]

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I was in a hurry to overstep.   [Please select]

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Such traits overstep the limits of _instinct_, and almost trespass on that of reason.   [Please select]

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Great as were the autocratic powers conferred upon the sovereign, he overstepped them.   [Please select]

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Twice within the day she had forgotten herself, had overstepped the rigid bounds of her breeding in using his Christian name.   [Please select]

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But woe to the unfortunate Rosetta if she overstepped the bounds of respect.   [Please select]

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