Sentence examples for and overtaken by a from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bryan, distraught and overtaken by a great heat wave during the trial, died the week after it was over.

When I finally managed to ignite the burrow and run down the slope, I found myself pursued and overtaken by a river of flame.

Several men and women scrambled from two stores, each one pursued and overtaken by a detective and led back to the corner.

The north slope fell away in an avalanche that was followed and overtaken by a lateral air blast, which carried a high-velocity cloud of superheated ash and stone outward some 15 miles (25 km) from the volcano's summit; the blast reached temperatures of 660 °F (350 °C) and speeds of at least 300 miles (500 km) per hour.

This latest odyssey will end next week at the Village Laboratory, a 15th-century Italian site called Ghesc that has been abandoned for a century and overtaken by forest.

Norodom died, embittered and overtaken by events, in 1904.

Bloom is alternately humiliated and overtaken by delusions of grandeur.

I'm not sure he was well handled at Universitario, where, in an attempt to take advantage of his physical capacity, he was switched to a midfield role, and he lost his way and was overtaken by a promising generation of youngsters.

They thought of the future and worried about losing the best years of their lives and being overtaken by a new generation of film-makers.

She is innocently and wildly overtaken by a passion bigger than the whole world.

On May 27th, a fortnight after the Gays (or Fröhlichs, as they were then known) safely reached Havana, the St . Louisarrived, and was overtaken by a ghastly tragedy.