Sentence examples for they were overrun from inspiring English sources
They were overrun by flames just after climbing into silver, tentlike emergency fire shelters.
Mr. Harsch sent reports from Nazi concentration camps in 1945, after they were overrun by the advancing Allied forces.
They were overrun for stretches in the first half, but England didn't kill them off and paid for it.
Marine officers at regimental headquarters prepared to burn the codes that keep radio transmissions secret, in case they were overrun.
Toulouse, once France's powerhouse, seemed to confirm this when they were overrun by Ulster on the opening Saturday.
They were overrunning the Continent, displacing native enterprise.
In 1984, the Commack Public Library began barring residents of neighboring Smithtown from borrowing its books because they were overrunning the library.
But many doctors now complain that they are overrun by too many representatives who have little useful information.
Most of the island's real estate agents acted as if showing us properties would be a waste of their time (understandable since they're overrun by rum-soaked vacationers who swear they want to buy but never follow through).
The "Young Turks" who ran the Ottoman government did not use gas ovens, but they did massacre the men, and sent the women, children and elders on death marches through the desert to places we only hear of now because they are overrun by Isis.
