Sentence examples for overtake it from inspiring English sources

Before long, I had a white cabin cruiser in view and soon was in its wake, ready to overtake it like an impatient driver on the freeway.

A safe, effective vaccine might be right on its tail and about to overtake it.

But he worries that if the neighborhood is left to its own devices, urban decay could overtake it just as nature reclaims a field left fallow.

If the sun does expand to 100 times its present size, and Earth stays in its current orbit, the sun would easily overtake it.

Whatever Afghanistan's current cataclysm, its next one seems to require little time to overtake it.

Yes! Could we overtake it?

Before long, India and China may overtake it.

China looks set to overtake it by 2015.

China's economy is second only to America's in size and is likely to overtake it soon.

By some calculations Nigeria's economy, messy as it is, will overtake it within a few years.

Yet attempt to overtake it, and the goat would race ahead.