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

Baber, the Great Mogul, was, for example, overrunning India at the very moment when Hernando Cortez was overrunning Mexico, and yet the two could never have heard of each other.

From The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

At the same time Coote was overrunning Connaught and took possession of Sligo.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

Like a river that overflows its banks, Prussia was overrunning France. 

From Other People's Money by Gaboriau, Émile