Sentence examples for strive to overtake from inspiring English sources

Year after year, driving titles strive to overtake each other for the lead in a continually evolving genre.

45 1 The senate and the people seemed wholly changed: all rushed to the camp, striving to pass those next them and to overtake those before; they inveighed against Galba, praised the soldiers' decision, covered Otho's hand with kisses, the extravagance of their acts being in direct proportion to their falsity.

It led the company through two world wars, the publication of the Pentagon Papers, labor strife and severe financial challenges, striving to maintain the paper's importance even as new forms of media threatened to overtake it.

That works better than trying to overtake.

Thus licentiousness began to overtake liberation.

It was impossible to overtake Fernando.

They are not allowed to overtake.

Does Merton plan to overtake him?

Then it is impossible to overtake.

It's not easy to overtake.

"I got to overtake them.