are overrunning
- present progressive of overrun.
Example Sentences
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As children return to school, waves of illnesses are overrunning many of the units that remain.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
Recent reporting by The Post’s Rachel Chason and others confirmed what the rest of the country has long suspected: “Rats are overrunning D.C.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2018
It is Twitter, Facebook, myDigg, Yelp and dozens of other sites where, sometimes just by sheer quantity of opinion, the people are overrunning the Winter Palace of cultural elitism.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2011
That kind of conservationist sees no contradiction between support for wilderness areas and doubling the take of does in a place where deer are overrunning the landscape.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2010
On more open stretches of the shore, long-drawn ripples of waves of tiny dimension are overrunning and treading on one another's heels for miles a-head, and tapping the anchored boat "with gentle blow."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
