Sentence examples for were being overrun from inspiring English sources

He said the recent fighting began March 25 when the Americans heard that Iraqi checkpoints were being overrun.

Already, the visitors were being overrun in midfield – where Arturo Vidal appeared to be struggling after an early collapse – and utterly outmanoeuvred on the flanks.

It was the decision to go to war in 1939 in defence of the peoples of eastern Europe who were being overrun by the Nazi blitzkrieg.

The city has wrestled with its medical marijuana ordinances for years, trying to provide safe and affordable access to the drug for legitimate patients while addressing concerns by neighborhood groups that areas were being overrun by dispensaries and marijuana users.

Which all sounds a bit waffly to me – and not surprisingly, again, there was uproar on the forums, with people complaining that proper artisans were being overrun by mere suppliers.

At the same time, the plan caps development in areas near Hollis and St. Albans, where leafy, low-roofed sections were being overrun by out-of-scale developments, said Leroy G. Comrie, a city councilman who represents the area.

Classical music is being overrun by Finns.

Yet, those decisions have already been discounted by the markets and are being overrun by events.

Steve explains over the din how his factory is being "overrun by immigrants".

And I didn't know that the entire complex was being overrun by terrorists.

There have always been people to complain that London is losing its identity, that it is being overrun.