was overrunning
- past progressive of overrun.
Example Sentences
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A few hours earlier, the authorities had cut short Kraviz’s headline show at a nearby festival, claiming – incorrectly – that it was overrunning.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2018
The company’s concern was apparently not a sense of entitlement to free driving, but fear of the crime that was overrunning the city and its public spaces.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2016
While Lothair was overrunning Apulia Bernard was winning over the adherents of Anacletus in Rome.
From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius)
The cup which he had commended to my lips was overrunning with the gall of bitterness.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore
After these experiences Sextius, who had secured some fresh reinforcements, risked battle again, conquered the quaestor in his turn, and shut up Laelius, who was overrunning the country, within his fortifications.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
