Sentence examples for if overtaken from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, as if overtaken by joy, he simply leaped into the air and landed on the beat.

Labour has gradually been losing its grip on the "black vote" – down from 90% in the 1980s to 68% in 2010 – and its reputation as the party of ethnic minorities is seriously at risk if overtaken by the Tories.

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A restaurant that serves two pates, six to eight soups, and basically five sauces might more than easily be overlooked if not overtaken.

The piece marks a slight deviation in his process: to make it, he had more than a hundred people don a motion-capture outfit and read parts of one of his unhinged poems, so that they each directed the facial and hand movements of the avatar, whose voice changes throughout the work, as if being overtaken by a series of demons.

If the Colts stumble, Manning becomes the prince who may be overtaken if Donovan McNabb or Tony Romo wins the Super Bowl.

If Fowler can hold on to win — or if he is overtaken by pursuers like Justin Rose, 29, four back after shooting 70, or Brendan DeJonge, 29, five back after a 65 — it would be the 10th win this year by a player in his 20s at the halfway mark of the season.

Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia threatened to boycott the Columbus Day Parade in 1935 if it was overtaken by fascists.

It felt as if something had overtaken him, not a tic, exactly, but a compulsive and maybe even a sort of holy gesture, or a superstitious one, anyway.

It still took a warehouse full of plants trucked in from Florida to dress up the city streets as if weeds had overtaken them.

But if East had overtaken, he could have given his partner a spade ruff, leading the jack as a suit-preference signal for diamonds.