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

The Herr Doktor must excuse me: I am overwhelmed: I had no idea that the Herr Doktor was not one of these tiresome American spies that are overrunning our country.

From The Man with the Clubfoot by Williams, Valentine