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Overdrive
"Overdrive" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Maximum overdrive.
Tom's hyperactive imagination went into overdrive.
The revolution kicked into overdrive.
Tom's incendiary speech kicked the revolution into overdrive.
Ziri's mind went into overdrive.
These two events sent the countries of the region into overdrive to review and improve disaster preparedness.
The bulletin board is a riot of posted notices and reminders, the photocopier is in overdrive, and people are busy typing on keyboards and talking into telephones.
Sounding like a miniature jackhammer in overdrive, a quiet morning’s peace is suddenly interrupted by bursts of loud, rapid tapping. It doesn’t take long, however, to realize that the intense and precise tapping is actually the sound of a woodpecker using his beak to search for his breakfast — usually insects or tree sap — in a neighboring tree.
The hype machine remains in overdrive.
Near-synonym: top gear
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In the 1970s, many transmission designs were revised to add an overdrive gear.
Cruising in overdrive at legal highway speed keeps rpm right at 1800, depending on rear-axle ratio.
overdrive pacing
The campaign has been in overdrive since the recent announcement.
It is true, though it's got nothing to do with me, that the building boom that created the Bombay of my childhood went into overdrive in the years before my birth
So, Mr. Zuckerberg has kicked his company into overdrive with a strong message: It’s time to do more with less.
Of course overdrive is forbidden for dump trucks in the quarry because it is unsafe, but unscrupulous workers were found to be using it because of a perverse incentive involving tonnage piece rates.
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