Sentence examples for overtook you from inspiring English sources

It features a hundred and forty responses by movie people and other artists to a query from the editor-in-chief, Stéphane Delorme, about "an emotion that overtook you and the moment in a movie, whether a gesture, dramatic situation, or sequence of images, that sparked this emotion".

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.

The incongruity of the situation overtakes you.

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

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.

Death is on your track and gonna overtake you after a while.

If you grow up, you turn into Debbie — you fear that the years are overtaking you fast.

Consumption and jaundice, madness and blindness, hemorrhoids and drought: "All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed".

If you grow up, you turn into Debbie you fear that the years are overtaking you fast.