How do use surmount in a sentence as a verb?

the perfume had a devine smell

John is astonished at my answer.John astonishes his mother (in 'is astonished' 'is' is technically the verb)

"Janie tried to drop the gem, but she just couldn't, it was just too powerful for her to understand."

A sentence wit a verb came would be:I came along with the flu this morning.

The judge was caviling on every aspect of my science fair project; He annoyed me with his critical questions.