Sentence examples for overtaken a from inspiring English sources

Stools were overtaken, a round of Maker's Mark whiskeys were ordered, and a few games of hangman ensued on scraps of paper.

Dr. Jordan said that evidence was mounting that a non-native species of phragmites had all but entirely overtaken a less aggressive native variety.

It's the latter difference that may help to make sense of the wave of violence that has overtaken a large swath of the city.

Daily Mail Editorial, July 21 "Even now, when tragedy has overtaken a decent man, not a word of contrition escapes the lips of those chiefly responsible for hounding him to his fate.

But in the period since Ms. Aubry spoke, perhaps the most insidious lifestyle change since the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century has overtaken a generation that may not be irretrievably "lost," as dystopian analyses suggest, but that has strayed into thickets of a cultural revolution that its parents cannot easily comprehend.

In a terrific ending to the race in Sydney Harbor, on Feb. 25 LG Flatiron was overtaken a half mile to the finish line and scored a second place for the leg, a mere 25 seconds behind the winning boat, BP.

She spotted a weed threatening to overtake a pathway, and she knelt down to identify it.

Facebook overtook a local social-media site, Orkut, in Brazil in late 2011.

In 2010 China overtook a limping Japan as the world's second-largest economy.

'We've done it!' I shout again as we overtake a stationary lorry".

It overtakes a cycle rickshaw carrying seven schoolchildren, two of them standing.