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How to use overtakes in a sentence

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Then you have the gradual evolution into modern art, where the artist's identity completely overtakes both their style and their subject matter.
This means that the car threads through traffic with ease and overtakes dawdlers in a flash.
Many weather textbooks state that occluded fronts occur when the cold front catches up with and overtakes the warm front.
We watch as he pulls away, overtakes a large panel truck and, visually, becomes part of it.
The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory.
But even before he manages to draw out his weapon, panic overtakes him and he flees to a small tailor shop next door.
Instead, we see his unvarnished, unpretty tears when anguish overtakes him.
When curiosity overtakes me, I scoop the parcel into a glass and prudently cover it with a dinner plate.
The transition period covers two or three decades before the decarbonisation of the system overtakes the effect of the rising cost of carbon.
Whichever feeling overtakes you, it's likely to be associated with change.
It overtakes a cycle rickshaw carrying seven schoolchildren, two of them standing.
His busyness overtakes him so much that he gets no time to spare for his mother.
If it overtakes them anyway, they try to dampen down their spirits by conjuring up negative considerations.
But it is Ronaldo who overtakes Puskas to become the club's fifth all-time top scorer.
The peace that passeth all understanding overtakes us only when we learn to reconcile ourselves to the riddles of mortal existence.
Since Earth is moving faster and has a shorter lap to run, it overtakes Mars on the inside and we get an opportunity to have a close look at it.
By that he meant the unfortunate habit of civilized societies to sleep and to slumber until danger nearly overtakes them.
Then war hits, the country is wracked with destruction, and fear overtakes everyone.
As his drawings point out, a shape both rigid and limp overtakes the surface.
Happening overtakes doing and you can relax while doing transforms into happening.
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Sinking quickly into the slumber which always overtakes him during the adagio.
When death overtakes her, it will be as the Princess Cagliari that she leaves this world.
I saw him frown, and suddenly he slapped his thigh as a man does when thought overtakes him.
He was in the condition that overtakes some monomaniacs entirely concentrated upon one thing.
On the other side, if the darkness overtakes you, you may, or may not, tumble down a deserted lead mine.
There is a Nemesis which overtakes generosity too, like all the other imprudences of men who dare to be lawless and proud.
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