Sentence examples for Overtake you from inspiring English sources

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The bottom line is: okay, let them overtake you as long as the camels don't.

And they say 'you are wrong and history will overtake you'... and I respect that".

Even if you think you're doing better than your peers, sooner or later someone will overtake you.

"Come and unload your burdens for a minute," you can imagine the train preachers telling their congregants, "so that they don't overtake you".

Consumption and jaundice, madness and blindness, hemorrhoids and drought: "All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed".

Nights are spent in designated campsites in tents that are carried, along with pretty much every other home comfort, by the legions of local porters who will overtake you at an unfeasibly fast trot.

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In speech and in casual settings in particular, I think it may have overtaken "you" as the plural personal pronoun of choice.I wonder how this came about.

Negotiating an impromptu traffic jam that's arisen around two lorries playing overtake-me-overtake-you on a dual carriageway.

The incongruity of the situation overtakes you.

The sound overtakes you, with Winston Churchill muttering amid the static.

If you grow up, you turn into Debbie — you fear that the years are overtaking you fast.

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