Sentence examples for overtook children from inspiring English sources

After a boom in the 1980s and 1990s, when collectors overtook children as the target customers and companies flooded the market with newfangled varieties of cards, the baseball card industry has been in decline.

It has seeped into this vibrant suburb of Minneapolis just as it has from Scarsdale to Santa Monica, overwhelming parents and overtaking children's lives: the schedule.

Kossoff captures the wild energy of an indoor pool overtaken by children during a public session.

If the power of social media overtakes your child, it is because you chose to remain ignorant.

Also the mean age of the population will increase, as in 1998 the proportion of children was 13% greater than the proportion of pensioners, however, by 2008 it is predicted that the proportion of pensioners will overtake that of children [ 17].

Then Jay-Z released "Glory", a song that sampled those very cries as conspiracy theories about the child's name overtook the internet (Glory is also his mother's name).

These are among the haunting visual elements of "The Exorcist," William Friedkin's enduring (if nightmare-inducing) 1973 movie about a child overtaken by a defiantly evil spirit.

I had a go on a friend's and crashed into a bollard, but not before I had been overtaken by a child.

By the time we reach middle age, our lives — work, wives, children — have overtaken us.

Besides phones and files and all the other normal tools of business, the offices include an area nearly overtaken by playpens and children's drawings.

As a result, poor but bright children get overtaken by their less intelligent classmates from wealthier backgrounds in the very first years of schooling, according to a 2007 study.