Overtures is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERTURES in dictionary:

VERB:
• OVERTURE, to put forward as an overture
NOUN:
• an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, play, etc.
• an independent orchestral composition in one movement
• an introduction to something more substantial
• an approach or proposal made to someone with the aim of opening negotiations or establishing a relationship
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to propose

Words related to OVERTURES

overture11 overtured13 overturing14

Words that contain OVERTURES

covertures15 discovertures19

How to use OVERTURES in a sentence

• Secret and mysterious overtures had been made to Congress which led it to hope for assistance.
• Sixtus made overtures to the Duke of Milan to detach him from the alliance, but, apparently, they failed of their object.
• He did not make any overtures to the taciturn proprietor.
• He was always ready and anxious for a reconciliation, though he would not press for one if his first overtures were rejected.
• Conventional overtures from the cheerful one being discouraged, she smashed the keys in sulky silence.
• Although Ormond was a prominent member of the Lancastrian party, he at once made gracious overtures to him.
• The King of England readily entertained the overtures announced to him by his herald.
• France was not long before she made overtures to Spain.
• Already the hot sun of Catalonia had ripened her charms, and neighboring lords were beginning to make extravagant overtures of marriage.
• Flattery will ever, more or less, accompany the first overtures to friendship.
• She received my overtures of reconciliation last night with more than cordiality.
• Toward none of the Indian tribes have overtures of friendship been spared.
• Sire Henry drew up a small force before the city and made no overtures toward either peace or throat-cutting.
• The rumour that LENIN had made overtures to the Allies moved Mr.
• She made little tentative overtures of friendship and affection.
• It may be doubted whether it had required the overtures of Monseses to put a Parthian expedition into his thoughts.
• He therefore embraced the overtures made to him with joy, and even rewarded the messenger who had brought them with a principality.
• Phraates could not bring himself to reject the Armenian overtures.
• At any rate, it was worth while to make overtures and see what answer would be returned.
• But the community had an innate sense of the fitness of things, and not once was Joy vexed by overtures for his use.
• So he arranged that the witness of his willingness to listen to any overtures that might come from the South should be Mr.
• Overtures in this sense have doubtless been made to France.
• The treaty with England has therefore, not been renewed, and all overtures for treaty with other nations have been declined.
• The boy, having been early taught by his household to regard altruistic advances with extreme suspicion, received the overtures coldly.
• These overtures being indignantly rejected, the mothers, as in all Eastern tales, turn the tables by informing their husband that his sons had made indecent proposals to them.
• Wilkes had made an attempt to return to England during the Rockingham ministry, but that party would not receive his overtures.
• Adam Ferguson, to enable him to lay some overtures of the commission before congress.
• I did strive hard, all that evening, to meet his simple, social overtures half-way, simply that I might not appear ungracious or ungrateful.
• This leads such soft Creatures into the Misfortune of seeming to return Overtures of Good-will with Ingratitude.
• Shortly before these transactions, overtures were made to the Rev.
• Having made friendly overtures, which were rejected, he now planned to be more savage than ever.
• But handsome and gallant and popular as he was, the overtures of his ministers were coldly received by one Royal house after another.
• The first overtures in this direction issued in complete failure, nor was the result wholly to be regretted.
• The overtures which led to this agreement were made by representatives of the Creek Nation, who came here for that purpose.

Similar words containing OVERTURE without suffix s

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