Overthrow has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Among the people of the colonies suffering under Earth's tyranny a force emerges intending to overthrow the status quo through terrorism. | |
| 2. | Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. | |
| 3. | Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day. | |
| 4. | They conspire to overthrow the oppressive government. | |
| 5. | I will overthrow the dictator. | |
| 6. | The people want to overthrow the regime. | |
| 7. | The separatists are dreaming of a violent overthrow of the Algerian state to be able to set up a puppet state in Kabylie. | |
| 8. | The Libyans seek to overthrow the current government in search of a better quality of life. |