Sentence examples for overtakes you from inspiring English sources

The incongruity of the situation overtakes you.

The sound overtakes you, with Winston Churchill muttering amid the static.

And what rushes in, in the same way that light rushes into a room when you switch on the light, is another kind of mood that overtakes you".

Sinatra's show was called "Sinatra Sings Sinatra". Martin's was "An Evening of Dean Martin". When your father casts a shadow that overtakes you, maybe the best you can do is try to assume the shadow's shape.

The argument we made that got the most traction was: 'We're falling so far behind our neighbors economically — China and India — that, unless we change, politically as well as economically, it's going to be disastrous.' " Thomas Carothers calls it the "neighborhood effect," and explained, "When Laos overtakes you in per-capita G.D.P., it's time to rethink your basic national strategy".

I stole it for my book says, "In a period of high absolute mobility, everyone's going on the highway, everyone's getting there". If someone overtakes you and you're all going miles 60 per hour, whatever, do you mind, probably not and if you do,you've got other problems.

In speech and in casual settings in particular, I think it may have overtaken "you" as the plural personal pronoun of choice.I wonder how this came about.

Negotiating an impromptu traffic jam that's arisen around two lorries playing overtake-me-overtake-you on a dual carriageway.

In football that fear can creep in and overtake you.

And they say 'you are wrong and history will overtake you'... and I respect that".

The bottom line is: okay, let them overtake you as long as the camels don't.