Sentence examples for were overtaken with from inspiring English sources

Control of my life was suddenly out of my hands and my days were overtaken with all things cancer: doctors, hospitals, waiting rooms, scary decisions, scary survival statistics and scary treatments.

Following November's election, wide swaths of the country were overtaken with fear, deeply worried that President Donald Trump would make good on his controversial campaign promises.

Following November's election, wide swaths of the country were overtaken with fear, deeply worried that President Donald Trump would make good on his controversial campaign promises.

The club queen was overtaken with the king, and dummy's deuce scored the last trick.

Bays will be overtaken with seaweed that rots in the summer, a blow to property values and an environmental concern.

Jennifer Lawrence arrived fashionably late after Twitter was overtaken with cries of "Where is she?" only to trip on the red carpet before the ceremony had even begun.

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.

But early projections of how many jobs will be lost and the effect of those losses on the region's economy are being overtaken with each new piece of bad financial news.

After Mr. Bender retired from the New York Police Department, his model-building increased to the point that first his cellar was overtaken with the planes, then they covered the pool table, his workbench, his desk and now, finally, his kitchen table.

The former European cross-country champion earned his first global track medal in 2011, although his 10,000m silver medal at the World Championships was bitter-sweet after being overtaken with 50m to go by Ethiopia's Ibrahim Jeilan; redemption came a week later over 5000m.

I was overtaken with emotion.