surmount

Example Sentences

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Sometimes, even the best-laid plans can’t surmount a brick wall.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

During their treks both characters meet a man named Chetak, whose eerie folkloric tales underscore the power structures they’ll each have to surmount before reaching their goals.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025

When Franklin Roosevelt signed the law creating the Federal Housing Administration in 1934, the country’s political class, or most of it, assumed the government could surmount any problem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The results have implications for efforts to help children with hearing loss surmount initial language delays caused by a lack of auditory input and access to speech sounds before they receive cochlear implants.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë