Sentence examples for they were overtaken from inspiring English sources

Taped phone-sex advertisements and conversations set the context before they were overtaken by crackling static.

They were overtaken by a group of scientists, who exchanged a few words with his father.

One morning when I was talking to Reuben and his friend Tim, they were overtaken by a wave of nostalgia.

Francis and Nick started heading south in a hurry — "He's a big, built guy," Francis said — but they were overtaken.

That they were overtaken by the conservative backlash of the 1980s in no way invalidates his work.

They were overtaken in both polls by the anti-austerity party Podemos, which is also suffering from internal squabbles.

These shows become insufferable when they are overtaken by the reality format tropes.

From a bicyclist's perspective, that translates to one overtaken by a distracted driver for every thirteen times they are overtaken.

Because when people really move, and they're really in themselves, it's like shamanism, and they're overtaken by something.

Inevitably, they are overtaken by an extreme statewide poverty virtually unparalleled in the nation, along with an addiction to oil revenues that frequently run dry.

When he and Diesel have to dump a body, Mad Dog keeps up a stream of needy, neurotic verbiage even as they are overtaken with disaster.