overtake
verb (used with object)
to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with.
were overtaking
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past progressiveof overtake.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She believed that the only way for her characters to overcome the horrible circumstances that had befallen them was to band together and fight the giant corporate farms that were overtaking the agricultural industry.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
She was also overwhelmed by the plants that were overtaking her tiny apartment, so she started to sell them, including the cuttings she propagated, on Facebook Marketplace and Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
She experienced "a feeling of falling, and then as though something were overtaking me, body and soul, followed by this tremendous, luminous, uplifting whiteout pulling me right out of my body".
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2021
I phoned her about a year after 9/11, when my daddy duties as the father of two young girls were overtaking my free time.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2016
But snowdrifts and night were overtaking her, and Hazel only had room for so much.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
