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Overtaken
"Overtaken" in a Sentence (13 examples)
I was overtaken by the car.
As for the standard of living, the republic has overtaken other developed countries.
The hare was overtaken by the tortoise.
I was overtaken by that car.
A boy having sold a cow at the fair at Hereford, was way-laid by a highwayman, who at a convenient place demanded the money; on this the boy took to his heels and ran away but being overtaken by the highwayman, who dismounted, he pulled the money out of his pocket and strewed it about, and while the highwayman was picking it up, the boy jumped upon the horse and rode home.
I've just seen that Esperanto has overtaken German, and now has the fourth place. Very good!
I was overtaken by greed.
When he gets overtaken by another car, he gets a shot of adrenaline.
We were overtaken by a violent storm on our passage.
The weeds have completely overtaken the garden bed.
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I was overtaken by events.
Indeed, he was 'dithguthted' at his condition; and if upon the occasion just described he had allowed himself to be somewhat 'intoxicated with liquor,' I must aver that I do not recollect another instance in which this worthy little gentleman suffered himself to be similarly overtaken. Now and then a little 'flashy' he might be, but nothing more serious—and rely upon it, this was no common virtue in those days.
Once John, being overtaken in drink on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw the old wife hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.
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