Example Sentences

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Traditionally dry rocky arroyos and ditches were overrunning their banks; irrigation diversions and culverts were buried in mud the consistency of peanut butter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2023

In recent weeks, as Taliban fighters were overrunning district after district across the country, the president appeared to be in shock or denial.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021

When word of the attack reached Grant, he ordered Wallace’s Third Division to help turn back the surging Confederates, who were overrunning the hastily assembled Union lines.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

While revolutionary forces were overrunning the embassy and taking hostages, including the 52 men and women who were held for 444 days, five Americans fled undetected.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2012

King Arthur and his knights fought, endured, and toiled in the sixth century, when the Saxons were overrunning Britain; but their achievements were not chronicled by Sir Thomas Malory until late in the fifteenth century.

From The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir