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Sentence Examples Unfortunately, as happens so often to columnists who monitor current affairs at the global level, events overtake the best of intentions. I was trying to overtake people in places that I shouldn't, and that got me in trouble. If I didn't, I feared panic would overtake me so badly that I really had no other choice but to try and go. I was driving and waited until the road ahead was clear before attempting to overtake. It would not be restricted to travelling under wires, so could follow diversions and overtake other trolleybuses. One frustrated lorry driver pulled into the fast lane to overtake the convoy. Despite those rewards, it is unlikely that single camera comedy will overtake traditional comedy as the genre's leading format. Moments before the crash, a retired PC watched a blue car indicate then pull out ahead and overtake a horse box. If that driver was indicating properly, which I see no reason to assume he wasn't, then the motorcyclist should never have attempted to overtake. A strange sense of panic and confusion started to overtake him as the gravity of his situation set in. He urged them not to travel in convoys, because these tend to create a real hazard as motorists attempt to overtake on narrow roads. The boys were creaming us every time. Even when they gave us a start they would catch us and overtake us. People try and be free, and the powers that be basically overtake the movement. Going just slightly faster than you, let's say at 105 kmph, I overtake you in my car. One of the risks of being a historian of the present, of course, is that events can overtake you. Despite attaining near deific rock star heights they have never allowed success to overtake their sense of duty to their audience. As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses, the Black Forest horse became endangered. I only discovered it by accident, and I have been driving like the deuce to overtake you. If your seedlings lose their growth momentum, fast growing vegetation will overtake them. At the same time, you must overtake the security guards, disengage the alarm system, and disable the security cameras. Show More Sentences He doesn't want a picture of him nibbling on a baguette to overtake the effete image of the Europhile windsurfing. Suddenly there were all these cars trying to overtake me, tailgating me, blowing their hooters, angrily gesturing for me to get out of the way. The media community is reluctant to admit that Sassenach papers could overtake the homegrown product. When it's wet, great care is needed at roundabouts, as it's easy to get the back of this rear-wheel drive vehicle trying to overtake the front. They overspeed and overtake what they consider slow vehicles at any point, even at areas known as black spots. Brett Sales yanked the Cavalier's gear down from fifth into fourth to overtake the van in front of him before he reached the next roundabout. She let her career overtake the relationship, and she's become too controlling and domineering. Most every time you ride another racer's slipstream, you'll easily overtake their position long before the meter fills. Hoss urged the horse to a faster pace to overtake the lead animal, and slow the little group down. A fellow driver chose to have words with him and criticised him for weaving about on the track in order to balk those who try to overtake. Shops and restaurants would complete the building, set to overtake Milton Keynes as the biggest indoor alpine ski complex in Britain. Although Vic made a valiant effort to overtake the leaders, he fell short by a few points. Witness Mr Fogarty an engineer agreed with this, stating that it was not a good place to overtake and that the broken white line was misleading. She shows how Hispanic minors are poised to overtake African Americans as the largest ethnic youth population in the country. If you go to overtake another vehicle the chances are you will break the speed limit. I see her in every beautiful woman, in every danger that threatens to overtake me, in every heartbeat, every flicker of emotion. As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children. The car collided with the front offside of the lorry after crossing the centre of the road, possibly to overtake. Even so, she felt confident that with a few weeks of catch-up studying, she would overtake the rest of the student body in the tenth grade. Their selling is slowing, and the buying is growing and may well strongly overtake any selling remaining. Show More Sentences It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone will be stupid enough to try and overtake them. Express bus drivers who don't overtake other buses, hence stopping unnecessarily at every stop. Chaos was beginning to overtake the townships, as children, outraged by the timorousness of their parents, seized the initiative themselves. Isn't it just so annoying when one lorry travelling at 60 mph tries to overtake another which is travelling at 58 mph? Now, if a daring driver decides to overtake the bus in front, he runs into trouble in uniform. For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to overtake him. That's the key to what we have to do, is we have to maintain the ability to pass and overtake. Riders overtake traffic, carving in and out of lanes as befuddled drivers bond in confusion with pedestrians. Later that year he presented the Report on Manufactures, an ambitious plan to overtake Britain in industrial output. A car, which was trying to overtake another vehicle, allegedly collided with their bicycles. The team has managed to overtake last year's successes to receive commendation for every entry they submitted this year. Tourism is doing pretty well in Mauritius, too, and is set to overtake sugar as the country's most important industry. Picard also predicts that animal prints will overtake the popular reptile looks, and that metallic shades will gain prominence. She is concerned that, unless things change fairly rapidly, a similar fate will overtake her own premises. Time and time again I put my foot down in that Beemer, pulled out to overtake the Rover, and then when I was on the wrong side of the road simply ran out of oomph. Uganda has intervened on the side of the Government of south sudan, including providing air support to overtake opposition forces. A car engine that shows promise on the test bed is all well and good, but maximum theoretical speed doesn't help much when you need to overtake quickly and safely. By 2017 the International Monetary Fund predicts, the GDP of China will overtake that of the United States. Unfortunately for Crist, it will likely take a turbine engine to generate enough wind in his flagging sails to overtake Rubio. Their sedan collided with an articulated lorry already in the outside lane when they pulled out to overtake and were shunted into the path of an oncoming mini van. Show More Sentences Their role, Sudani said, is not to overtake the Iraqi military but to help it. This year, as CNBC reports, technology could overtake apparel as the go-to gift. If the recount would have continued on Dec. 9, Gore would not have picked up enough overvotes to overtake Bush. Just before the finish, the trailing rider pulls out of the slipstream, and using their fresher legs may be able to overtake their opponent just before the line. He moved the event forward from its usual August date to May because later in the year the course is covered in bracken and it is difficult to overtake on the narrow paths. Jack Womersley, a former Bradford councillor, saw the motorbike overtake two cars and disappear over the brow of a hill moments before the collision. She decided to just transfer her mind into a blank and void world so that her thoughts did not overtake her and carry her to a place that she didn't want to go again. Wait until it is safe to overtake, and then pass wide and slow. Take along some mint because the fast descent down the mountain might disturb even city folk, especially when the driver pulls out to overtake other cars on the narrow road. My driver then tries to overtake the truck at the same time. He said the boom in China's economy had helped shipping overtake tourism. While chipping at the landing is still the principal means of comminution, bundling is growing rapidly and could easily overtake roadside chipping within a few years. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change. I just knew that one day the battalion of trees would overtake this weak stretch of highway and obscure its existence with an impenetrable density. Events could easily overtake the proposed policies displayed in its pages. Overnight, the margin for error was reduced to almost zero, since nobody wants to overtake his own bodily excretions as he reaches terminal velocity. Anyone who doubts this should try driving at 60 mph on any of our main roads out of Sligo and keep a count of the number of cars that will overtake you. They overtake at pedestrian crossings, park in the zig-zag area, stop in yellow box junctions and park indiscriminately. Seasickness can overtake passengers when the ship encounters a storm. As with Geoffrey of Monmouth's version, Brutus's band subsequently overtake the land, defeating Gogmagog in the process. Show More Sentences Howbeit we have not yet been able to overtake young madam, we may account it some good fortune that we have hitherto traced her course aright. Between Didcot and Royal Wootton Bassett there are a series of passing loops lines to allow fast trains to overtake slower ones. However the British were starting to overtake the rear of the French fleet even as their van and centre made it to the safety of the bay. If other road users overtake the convoy, they aren't allowed to split into the queue. Lenin believed that the USSR would never overtake the developed world if it remained as technologically backward as it was upon its founding. The trends suggest that particle board and fiber board will overtake plywood. In course of time, other changes than weathering may overtake tuff deposits. The ruffe has the potential to overtake many other fish species, and consequently damage the Great Lakes ecosystems. Campaigning has been ongoing to get the section from Hexham to Carlisle dualled to allow vehicles to overtake safely. Never be a stinker, because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you. Competitors aggressively sought to overtake the team holding the overall lead, but in the last lap the yellow jersey prevailed. Richard Hannon's four-year-old was held up in the rear of the field before producing an excellent burst to overtake all bar the winner Kaveri. In the course of a few years, Bermuda and Kikuyu grasses can also overtake a lawn. Travellers were asked to stand on the right so that anyone wishing to overtake them would have a clear passage on the left side of the escalator. Passing loops may also be used to allow trains heading in the same direction at different speeds to overtake. Normally, one batter may not overtake another while running between bases, although there are exceptions to this rule. Hamed's car then hit a second vehicle, the Ford Mondeo he had been trying to overtake. As Schumacher recovered, Hill came around the corner and attempted to overtake into the next corner. However, despite these welcome reinforcements, disaster would soon overtake Stewart and his Scottish army. There are passing places, locally called 'pockets', where cars must wait to enable oncoming traffic to pass or overtake. Show More Sentences All was to be swept away by the tumult that was to overtake Europe at the turn of the 19th century with the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Knowing that Thorfinn has more power and can easily overtake him, Brusi visits King Olaf to try to gain his support in helping him maintain his control over his share. The surge in support for the veteran leftwinger has seen him overtake the Shadow Health Secretary as the frontrunner with just over a week before ballot papers go out. This allows trains to use one track where the other track is out of service due to track maintenance work, or a train failure, or for a fast train to overtake a slow train. The Black Riders nearly overtake Frodo at the Ford of Bruinen, but flood waters summoned by Elrond, master of Rivendell, rise up and overwhelm them. The second shows an emerging technology that currently yields lower growth but will eventually overtake current technology and lead to even greater levels of growth. Jordan followed the suggestion, ordering Schumacher not to overtake. Hamilton was also involved in a controversial racing incident with Rosberg, with Rosberg appearing to push Hamilton off track while he attempted to overtake. Hamilton finished third in Malaysia to take his first podium for the team, although Nico Rosberg was prevented from attempting to overtake him by team orders. That's because Hitler would stay up all night talking to them until sleepness over took him. They certainly didn't let sleepness overtake them while Hitler was talking. Following the pit stops, Webber and Vettel were running first and second until lap 40, when Vettel attempted to overtake Webber, leading to a collision between the two. Clarkson rolled his car attempting to overtake a Ford Focus. Examples from Classical Literature I began to run, in order to overtake them along the Seine, which they had to follow in order to reach the station of chaton. If he walked fast he might yet overtake his friends ere they reached their destination. Once let the mob overtake them, and the lives of all three were not worth a sesterce. David hastened to overtake him, and soon caught sight of the bent figure walking slowly over the stubbled field. She knew that they all came from Charmian, and that she could not hope to overtake them with denial. Suspecting that he had despatches for me, I directed my outrider to overtake him and find out. The Cid was burning with impatience to overtake the Moors, who were ravaging Estremadura. They might overtake him, and if they did, a windigo could expect no mercy from them. Not until he was well past Eldorado did he overtake duddy and Fuddy and the trap. Let not greediness and chambering overtake me, And give me not over to a shameless mind. I will ride after them, and overtake them, too, before they can reach Poughkeepsie. Surely, destruction will overtake the kuru race, surely Dhritarashtra will never acquire good fortune. And Lairgnen sent messengers after her to bring her back, and they did not overtake her till she was at cill Dun. At these words Pincher took a spurt and had to be held in, lest they should overtake the wagon. Keep this road to Hazlehurst and then go down the main Brookhaven road till you overtake him. The younger sat down and began to weep, thinking that lox would certainly overtake them. I thought you'd get wool-gathering over some weed or another, and maybe I'd overtake you. You can easily overtake me on the road, for you are young, and I am ageing and go softly. Judgment might overtake them there, as it might at home, in house or field. The operator manipulated the controls and the blob began to overtake the dot. Show More Sentences By a forced march they might overtake this party, and thus be able to reach the settlements in safety. Did they attempt to make it, we could haul after them with the wind abeam, and overtake them before they had covered an eighth of the distance. And a similar fate will overtake everyone under the Sun who wrongfully assumes a title to which he has no right. It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us. Stan saw the Me's dive down to overtake and attack the Forts and Libs. It was clear that the roughness of the ground had very much lessened Lizzie's speed, and there seemed a chance that we might overtake her. They professed to be on an amicable errand, to make peace with the Crows, and set off in all haste, before night, to overtake them. The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. No horse that the stragglers have stolen can overtake Gypsy. But the latter passed into the study hall before she could overtake her. The opportunity to overtake the intruder was irredeemably past. I could not take flight by water, as he could easily overtake me. But Id give a heap if we could only overtake that loping buffalo. She could easily overtake them soon, for they would miss her, and return or wait for her at the spring. He was good, and honest, and well meaning, in the matter of chasing national diseases, but he never could overtake one. If the coach doesn't overtake me on the road, I can wait for it where I stop to breakfast. The bearer will overtake us with your answer at our first outspan. Would he not guess the truth and possibly be already on the march to overtake and punish him? Given the current age of membership, a tortoise would overtake them in five minutes, never mind a hippo. There was not much time, however, for thought or elusion, and she yielded as calmly as she could to the necessity of letting him overtake her. Show More Sentences Please direct me how to go in order to overtake him, General Putnam. In a few minutes, however, the exuberance of his spirits abated, and, pausing for a while, he permitted me to overtake him. The people with the cart could not overtake me, and I returned. Live as quietly and as frugally as possible, and from today begin always to set aside something, lest misfortune again overtake you. As it was, the dazzler had a beam wind in which to overtake him. The despondent frame of mind in which she had left home began again to overtake her, and she remembered that she wished to find Mademoiselle Reisz. The only thing they feared, was, that from being already so nigh to his mark, he would be enabled to dart his iron before they could completely overtake and pass him. But I have noticed that those who continually dread ill luck and fear it will overtake them, have no time to take advantage of any good fortune that comes their way. Going to slicks was obviously the right choice but although there was a dry line, in some places it was so narrow that you couldn't go off line to overtake. Immediately he took the shape of a harpy, and, filled with rage, was determined to devour his son, and even the Princess too, if only he could overtake them. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of overtake? Words that rhyme with overtake What is the past tense of overtake? What is the noun for overtake? Translations for overtake Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words overt oversweet oversupply oversupplied oversubscription oversubscribed overtaken overtakes overtaking overtask overtasked overtax 8-letter Words Starting With o ov ove over overt overta overtak