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Example sentences for "overdrawn"

Lexicographically close words:
overdoing; overdone; overdose; overdraft; overdraw; overdress; overdressed; overdrive; overdriven; overdue
  1. Let it not be supposed that I have overdrawn this picture.

  2. The scene of this romance, which opens well, is laid in the South Seas, but everything soon becomes overdrawn and fantastical, and the thread of the story loses itself in a mystical allegory.

  3. A gentleman of over twenty years' experience, as governor of a lunatic asylum, assured the writer that next to drink, overdrawn tea was the most responsible agent for insanity.

  4. Side note: Food] The food we are eating, especially the use of overdrawn tea.

  5. He was thoroughly bearish to both his mother and herself, and he had already overdrawn the allowance the former had made him.

  6. Each month since his coming he had steadily overdrawn his allowance to no inconsiderable extent.

  7. The Girard National Bank, where he was overdrawn to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars!

  8. He had frequently overdrawn his account with the bank; as a matter of fact, it was the regular course of his business to overdraw it.

  9. This now is not an overdrawn picture of particular cases--and they were numerous--which occurred during the period of what was termed the Tithe rebellion.

  10. The consequence was, that worthy Turbot, so long habituated to these overdrawn narratives, began to look upon them as the friends of the boy who shouted out "wolf!

  11. Watt was made additionally miserable by the state of the bankers’ account, which was still overdrawn to a very large amount.

  12. Another gave an overdrawn picture of the evils of this world--as if monks were not of this world!

  13. Unless you have paid in some money I don't know anything about, you seem to be overdrawn already.

  14. He was quite sure that his father would not increase his allowance, and an overdrawn account was not a thing so easy to transfer.

  15. He was far too fond, like most of the Brethren, of overdrawn sentimental language.

  16. At one time I could not resist the conviction that Frey had overdrawn his picture (see Owens College Historical Essays, p.

  17. The Vermont Brigade was too grand a body of men to be mortified by exaggerations and overdrawn situations.

  18. But Mrs. Stowe was confident that she had not exaggerated or overdrawn him, and further that such were common among the southern slaves.

  19. At the time of his death this account was overdrawn nine thousand dollars.

  20. I waived my claim for nine thousand dollars on that overdrawn account and I personally paid those notes for eleven thousand dollars, one in June and the other in August following the death of my friend.

  21. Francis was always pleased to meet him of recent years, and no longer remarked early in the conversation that he was "overdrawn at Cox's.

  22. He remembered the time when he would not have hesitated--those were the days when Francis was always "overdrawn at Cox's.

  23. I have overdrawn my account with Williams, and I'll lose my place if it is not paid.

  24. And then, just as the superintendent turned from her and all would have been well again, her overdrawn nerve gave out.

  25. The bank replies that she has maintained a small but steady balance, that she has never overdrawn her account, and that in their opinion her credit would be good up to $100 monthly.

  26. One of your depositors has overdrawn his account.

  27. I might get better exchange elsewhere; and second, I have overdrawn him damnably, and he might be indelicate enough to expect payment.

  28. One or two persons--not more--who know him whose traits furnished the picture, are well aware that I have neither overdrawn my sketch nor exaggerated my drawing.

  29. As I grow older I become more and more distrustful of all I do; in fact, I feel like the man who does not know when he draws on his banker that he may not have overdrawn his account and have his cheque returned.

  30. My own account was overdrawn twenty cents at the time.

  31. I know a man, for example--his name is Spugg--whose private bank account was overdrawn last month twenty thousand dollars.

  32. When he told her that she might go at once if she chose, she remembered, with a pang of agony, that she had already overdrawn her account at the bankers.

  33. The truth is I have overdrawn my bankers by five hundred pounds, and they have, as they say, ventured to remind me of it.

  34. You are now overdrawn some five thousand dollars, which, by the maturing of your drafts, has become a cash advance.

  35. My cashier reports his account overdrawn the other day, and not made good till late next afternoon.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overdrawn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggrandized; amplified; disproportionate; exaggerated; excessive; exorbitant; extravagant; extreme; grandiloquent; inflated; inordinate; magnified; melodramatic; overdone; overdrawn; overestimated; overstated; overwrought; prodigal; profuse; sensational; stretched; superlative; touted