Use "overtax" in a sentence
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overtax
1. Sorry I overtaxed you, sorry it doesn't feel right to join with you now
2. A Roman delegate went to Caesar because Herod had so overtaxed his people that they were in helpless poverty
3. So few hospital supplies had been unloaded that before July 1st, when the army was buoyed against sickness by the prospect of the combat, the wounded from Guasimas alone overtaxed the hospital facilities
4. animals, the overtaxed shelter workers, your community, and your
5. He also noticed that his gunshots had been growing louder and louder, and realized that the overtaxed silencer had finally burned out
6. more reasonable time or have allowed themselves to become unreasonably overtaxed
7. There were moments when both his life and his soul seemed overtaxed by so many years of undiscouraged belief in regeneration
8. This, it was claimed, overtaxed their facilities, increased their overhead, and produced many troubles in making financial settlements
9. I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength and that I must repose before I could continue my journey
10. The overtaxing labour of old men, children and women, and work connected with danger to life done by others, not to help us to work but to satisfy our whims—these fill up our life
11. How could the men who began the whole business, the landowner, the commissioner, the judges, and those who gave the order and are responsible for it, the ministers, the Tzar, who are also good men, professed Christians, how could they elaborate such a plan and assent to it, knowing its consequences? The spectators even, who took no part in the affair, how could they, who are indignant at the sight of any cruelty in private life, even the overtaxing of a horse, allow such a horrible deed to be perpetrated? How was it they did not rise in indignation and bar the roads, shouting, "No; flog and kill starving men because they won't let their last possession be stolen from them without resistance, that we won't allow!" But far from anyone doing this, the majority, even of those who were the cause of the affair, such as the commissioner, the landowner, the judge, and those who took part in it and arranged it, as the governor, the ministers, and the Tzar, are perfectly tranquil and do not even feel a prick of conscience
12. She had started out with a long illness, as the result of overtaxed nerves, and the nurse who had been engaged for Simeon found ample employment with Simeon’s widow; but a good constitution and a quiet mind are excellent helps toward recovery, and by September she found herself in admirable health