Example Sentences

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Climate analyst Ed King is monitoring how far the conference is overrunning:

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2021

Even when a dam project is overrunning and costs are soaring, governments are reluctant to scrap them he points out.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2014

Another plant is overrunning parts of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon.

From Time Magazine Archive

The library extends through three stories, and is overrunning with its twenty-six thousand books and thirteen thousand pamphlets; large and valuable additions have been made to its shelves within a few years.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various