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How to use override in a sentence

21 example sentences · verb, noun

Override means to ride across or beyond something. Example: “In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.”

Examples of override by meaning

verbTo ride across or beyond something.

  • Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station.2021 October 20, “Network News: Commuter train crashes into buffers at Enfield Town”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8

verbTo counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.

  • In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.
  • Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
  • The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]...

verbTo give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system.

  • Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.

verbTo define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

  • How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.

nounA mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.

  • The bill passed with 72 members voting for the override and 46 against.2024 December 11, Arit John, “North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature erodes incoming Democrats’ political powers”, in CNN

More sentences with override

  • Her dad is so opinionated that the others' preferences were overridden and no one had any fun on the outing.From the entry opinionated
  • Once I call, I'll need you most Rikki Tik to override the doors.2009, Patrick Todoroff, Running Black, page 17. From the entry most Rikki-Tik
  • He steadfastly asserted that languages were human institutions, the communicative purpositivity of which overrides all else.2009, Harro Stammerjohann, “William Dwight Whitney”, in Lexicon Grammaticorum: A Bio-Bibliographical Companion to the History of…. From the entry purpositivity
  • The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package.2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl in a nutshell. From the entry sub
  • But the fires sent a drift of woodsmoke over the bloodscape and the burned meat smell was abruptly overridden.2014, Philip Wylie, Tomorrow!, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry bloodscape
  • You can choose to override these laws, you can change the game, you can dance to a different tune.2004, Rolf A. F. Witzsche, Flight Without Limits, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry dance to a different tune
  • Alberta Premier Ralph Klein suggested his province might use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to override any similar decision affecting Alberta.1999 May 21, Kirk Makin, “Gay couples win rights”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page A1. From the entry notwithstanding clause
  • Now, Republican legislators cannot afford to lose a single seat, in either chamber, if they want to continue to override his vetoes.2024 August 31, David W. Chen, “In North Carolina, the Math for a Supermajority May Come Down to One”, in The New York Times, archived…. From the entry veto
  • In this exercise, you will override conneg and let ASP.NET Web API use the media formatter that you specify to serialize the resource.2013, Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan, Practical ASP.NET Web API, page 66. From the entry formatter
  • Full justification has been applied to all books by default on the iPad (but not the iPhone) and cannot be overridden by the book designer.2010, Elizabeth Castro, EPUB Straight to the Point […] , Peachpit Press, →ISBN. From the entry anti-feature
  • All those laws which give to the irresponsible officers of the Executive Government of India absolute powers to override the popular will, are still unrepealed.1922, Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom's Battle. From the entry unrepealed
  • It's an ideology that claims to have the absolute truth about why there's disparity in the world and, hence, overrides the need for societal debate about such matters.2022, David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews. From the entry successor ideology
  • A method cleverly adopted by airlines to attract customers is to incentify the travel agent by offering generous override commissions in exchange for steering passengers towards their carrier.2006, Andreas Papatheodorou, Corporate Rivalry and Market Power: Competition Issues in the Tourism Industry. From the entry incentify
  • Methods of staffing and staff utilization in most public schools suggest that there is a quality—called "teacherness," perhaps—which, when a person becomes a teacher, overrides all his individuating qualities.1972, Rodney Pennell Smith, Richard A. Dempsey, Differentiated staffing, page 2. From the entry teacherness

Meaning of override

  1. verb To ride across or beyond something.
  2. verb To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
  3. verb To ride a horse too hard.

Full definition of override

Questions about override in a sentence

How do you use override in a sentence?
Override is used as a verb and noun. For example: “In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.”
What is a short sentence with override?
“Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.”
What does override mean?
Override means to ride across or beyond something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: override (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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