Sentence examples for it overtaken from inspiring English sources

We feel like lonely prospectors, who, returning to a favourite stream, find it overtaken by a gold rush.Undeterred, we have given the prospecting pan another shake.

An impressive start to 2013 by Bauer Consumer Media, the home to Heat and FHM, could see it overtaken as the No 3 publisher – although Hearst is likely to point to its increasing digital presence and other metrics not easily accounted for in the biannual ABC report.

A stunning achievement, by any yardstick, but has it overtaken its sell-by date?

Circulation rose from 360,000 in 1947 to 655,000 in 1956, when it overtook its greatest rival, The Sunday Times.

In 1978, it overtook its once-dominant leftwing rival, the Daily Mirror, to become Britain's best-selling daily paper.

Will it overtake the humble photograph?

Can it overtake Titanic in North America?

But Dell's sales rose 10% as it overtook Compaq.

It overtook Prince, which I thought was terrible!

Sometimes it overtakes the idea of the performance.

Fortunately for Pugh, the feeling vanishes as quickly as it overtakes him, he said.