Sentence examples for overtook an from inspiring English sources

A little way up the road, we overtook an old man hobbling along on a cane.

He overtook an semi-truck on a blind bend to get away from us, and we lost him.

She campaigned hard and overtook an incumbent and one other better established candidate to become the top placer.

Now!" Before the protest turned tense and violent, demonstrators filled two city blocks and marched 2 miles to City Hall, where the crowd overtook an adjacent grassy plaza.

Light and sound artist duo Nonotak Studio Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto recently overtook an underground parking lot in Le Mans, France as part of the Teriaki Festival.

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.

On the country road, we soon overtook a woman driving a cow.

Then a wily group of Dadaists overtook a house in Zurich and refused to leave.

Then she overtook a men's event which had started earlier.

On 27 February 2004 three British vehicles overtook a Czech convoy north of Safwan, close to the Kuwait border.