Sentence examples for Get overtaken from inspiring English sources

At red lights, you get overtaken by clip-clopping horses pulling hansom cabs.

You may even get overtaken by a train that runs nearby.

So how did our actions get overtaken by accusations of media control and "wrecklessness"?

"Maybe Lachlan has acted before it becomes even clearer that James is the man most likely and he didn't want to get overtaken by his younger brother".

As a result, poor but bright children get overtaken by their less intelligent classmates from wealthier backgrounds in the very first years of schooling, according to a 2007 study.

That is why the government needs to get behind the EU plan to introduce transparent CO2 truck standards, which would ensure that Europe's truck manufacturers do not get overtaken by their US and Japanese competitors.

Often they found the script getting overtaken by events, or being reflected in headlines.

I've got a mountain bike, but I need to get something faster – I'm getting overtaken by old ladies.

The question of what the facts are gets overtaken by the spectacle of a titanic struggle between company and hedge fund operator.

When you have worked as hard and as long as Izzo has, when you exist in two generations as he has, fatigue gets overtaken by ambition and hunger.

Bachir Lazhar (the Algerian writer and actor Fellag) is a refugee from Algiers, in his fifties, with a long, sad face, a dark goatee, and a sudden smile that gets overtaken by wintry drafts of melancholy.