Sentence examples for overtaken at from inspiring English sources

Bright poor children are swiftly overtaken at school by dimmer rich ones and have only a small chance of becoming rich adults.

The Luzhniki Stadium witnessed a spectacle to compare with the comeback in 1999 when Bayern Munich were overtaken at the close of the final.

The airport, which has the largest dedicated police force in the country, is laid out like a round-cornered rectangle, open at one end, with a lovely, impractical, toy-like theme building — an old vision of the future, which time has already overtaken — at its center.

We were overtaken at speed by an entire family on the move in what was clearly parts of two different vans welded together at a slight angle, causing the head of the family, driving through a splintered windscreen with fixed intensity, to slalom sideways downhill, through the rain.

He's right about the popularity of the area with cyclists – as we pedal out of Gestingthorpe between hedgerows speckled with drifts of snowdrops, we are overtaken at regular intervals by groups of lycra-clad cyclists – though I beg to differ on the "gentle" verdict.

He may be overtaken at this tournament by New Zealand's Kyle Mills (22).

One driver reported that his Avensis accelerator became stuck last August while overtaking at 65mph.

"But it was very hard to overtake at the end; Valtteri was just so fast on the straights," he added.

The Montenegrins, however, seem oblivious to these perils and happily overtake at warp speed on the bends.

A woman the writer overtakes at one booth detects somethings else in the air: formaldehyde in the Unifoam Insulation distributed by the Superior Concept Corporation.

You can overtake at the end of the long straight at the hairpin but there aren't many other places where you can get past.