Sentence examples for work overtake from inspiring English sources

What some call 24/7 capitalism has seen work overtake all other social activities to become the centre of society.

A workaholic is someone who has let work overtake their life to the detriment of their personal life and interests.

But he reckons that work overtook inheritance as a source of fortunes in the mid-1990s.

He could not think of another work overtaken by events quite the way Mr. Kushner's has been.

One strategy is to delay them whenever possible and to allow other work to overtake.

As vigorously and as expensively as they have worked to overtake the Yankees, they still find themselves second best.

For the first time in at least a century, new work has overtaken revivals of old plays in the repertoire.

Sometimes in journalism your work is overtaken by unpredictable events, and this has been one of those times at the magazine.

As Cooper observes, her work has overtaken Amis's in popularity; the Cazalet chronicles have developed from a cult following into a national treasure.

I'd like to think that he was being a little tongue in cheek because, after all, he also pointed out that "for the first time in at least 100 years, new work has overtaken the old work in the repertoire", which can surely only be a good thing for writers of all kinds.

Real life is often stranger than fiction; knowing current events well can avoid your work being overtaken by the even weirder reality![6].