Example Sentences

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RSF forces have overrun much of Darfur, while Burhan has moved the government and his headquarters to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Moscow says its forces have overrun almost all of Luhansk province in eastern Ukraine as pitched battles rage in the streets of Severodonetsk.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2022

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s acting president declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, pledging to retake a suite of government buildings that protesters have overrun in recent days, including his own office.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

Overall, Edmunds’s long-term data document that numerous kinds of multicellular algae called macroalgae have overrun Caribbean reefs.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 12, 2022

As 1940 ends, more British bombs have fallen over Hamburg, but the Nazis have overrun Poland, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti