OVERSEER in a Sentence

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Gerald's old overseer, Jonas Wilkerson, was in charge of the local Bureau, and his assistant was Hilton, Cathleen Calvert's husband.

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 Meanings and Examples of OVERSEER
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overseer
 n.  a person who directs and manages an organization
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  There, Ellen sat before her tall secretary each morning, keeping the accounts of the plantation and listening to the reports of Jonas Wilkerson, the overseer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Jonas was a Yankee and a bachelor, and the fact that he was an overseer forever barred him from any contact with the County social life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Jonas Wilkerson, hat in hand, stood beside her, his sallow tight-skinned face hardly concealing the fury of hate that possessed him at being so unceremoniously turned out of the best overseer's job in the County.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  She's after discharging our overseer and stayed home to go over the accounts with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Even Gerald was busy, for the first time in many years, for he could get no overseer to take Jonas Wilkerson's place and he was riding his own acres.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Fairhill, the Tarleton home, was burned to the foundations, and Mrs. Tarleton and the four girls were existing in the overseer's house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  The two of them, with their Yankee stepmother, their four little half-sisters, and Hilton, the Yankee overseer, remained in the silent, oddly echoing house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  Scarlett had never liked Hilton any more than she liked their own overseer Jonas Wilkerson, and she liked him even less now, as he sauntered forward and greeted her like an equal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  Scarlett knew their souls were writhing in helpless rage at being under obligations to their Yankee overseer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  Now that the four boys were gone, the house burned and the family cramped in the overseer's cottage, she could not bring herself to go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  Gerald's old overseer, Jonas Wilkerson, was in charge of the local Bureau, and his assistant was Hilton, Cathleen Calvert's husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  Scarlett was so surprised at the sight of their former overseer driving so fine a rig and in so splendid a greatcoat she could not for a moment believe her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  His farms and slaves were under the care of an overseer.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  The overseer's name was Plummer.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
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