Sentence examples for I'm overtaken from inspiring English sources

Each time I launch into a weary answer, I'm overtaken by High Fidelity levels of Brooklynite music snobbery, and in an attempt to convey that I don't like EDM, I start using words I would never say to anyone in New York, like "underground" and "experimental".

I must have been 11 or 12 when I first encountered "Huckleberry Finn" but from the moment Huck and Jim took to teh river--their river, the Mississippi--I was overtaken witha thrilling proprietary excitement, because, of course, Mark Twain had it right: this was what a great wide-water north-south stream was like, and here was how it felt to pass time on its banks.

"I was overtaken," he said.

Am I being overtaken by toys?

I was overtaken by a crowd of people.

On the way, I am overtaken by one of the garden's docents.

At one point I was overtaken by a local bus (which was nevertheless observing the strict 30km/h speed limit).

I was overtaken continuously by people going at speeds I can only dream about, albeit with posher, whooshing wheels.

The first time I walked on it, I was overtaken by a loud pack of marching flutists in absurd costumes.

Yet as I sang him that silly song, I was overtaken by a powerful sense of the arbitrariness of the identities in which he was being clothed.

I was overtaken by this guy, a 70-year-old, and what was worse, he had a rucksack on full of weights.