Sentence examples for position is overrun from inspiring English sources

If a squad's position is overrun by the enemy, they will run away.

After being checked initially, a converging assault from both flanks with two additional tank regiments sent back by the 7th Armoured Division was launched in the afternoon, and the greater part of the Sīdī Barrānī position was overrun before the day ended.

By now a sergeant, during Operation Crusader in November 1941, he was one of 700 New Zealanders made a prisoner of war when his position was overrun by the Germans.

The last prepared German positions were overrun by 5 October.

As their positions were overrun, Isis was forced to retreat from western Syria.

The Loyalists and Indian positions were overrun, causing many of them to flee or surrender.

Their positions are overrun, causing Carlos and his team to retreat with a bitten Yuri Stefen Hayess), who turns into a zombie and infects Carlos before being killed.

Many jeeps were filled with six or seven men claiming they were retreating after their position was overrun.

On the evening of 16 December, the infantry were joined by five Matilda tanks, and the Japanese positions were overrun.

Supplies and reinforcements were delivered by air, though as the key French positions were overrun the French perimeter contracted and air resupply on which the French had placed their hopes became impossible, and as the anti-aircraft fire took its toll, fewer and fewer of those supplies reached them.

Misrata's hospital is overrun with casualties.