How To Use Overrun In A Sentence

It is a well-known fact that our cities are being overrun by foxes. Times, Sunday Times
The residents have been overrun with the lop-eared rodents residing in the parklands and King George Park.
So a relatively high price assures that the place will not be overrun by beer drinking mobs and niggards like other places.
Six days later the health board announced that because of cost overruns clinical and support staff were to be sacked.
As the slope steepens, warm, moist air overrunning the cold air is cut off and the precipitation coverage begins to rapidly decrease.

Ancient Egypt declined, was overrun and thereafter ruled by foreign powers.
The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car. Ferrari 458 Italia Loses Its Top, Gains Hugely
There was a ‘resistance to creating documents that would prove cost overruns or really inflated charges,’ she said.
Tribes of these red-bottomed monkeys regularly overrun government office compounds.
The issue arose in delegations due to rumors that the town was planning to raise taxes to pay for cost overruns on the recreation centre projects.
The advertising department has overrun its budget three years in row.
Those few brave souls, trying to buy time for their families to flee with their lives, were quickly cut down or overrun by the scores of humanoids that ran wildly through the streets.
And already the site of the house is undiscoverable, the location of the stone walls may be deduced from the configuration of the landscape, and I am renewing the battle, putting in angora goats to browse away the brush that has overrun Haska's clearing and choked Haska's apple trees to death. Chapter 37
This is permanent four wheel drive with a free wheel overrun clutch in the front output to stop transmission wind up.
Budget overruns, delays and upsets have shown project management is no panacea. Times, Sunday Times
He said he also could not say if there was a cost overrun on the Mason Hall project, since that was an issue between the owner, contractor and sub-contractor.
Fields and hedgerows would be overrun by monstrous insects and gigantic, unstoppable weeds. Times, Sunday Times
As I approached the runway overrun, I started easing the power back and touched down on speed 300 feet down the runway.
He tried to think backthe ship, overrun with demons; Isabelle falling and Jace catching her; blood, everywhere underfoot, the demon attacking Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
Don't let the thistly foliage scare you - they won't overrun your garden. Happy Times at Sugar Creek « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
I recently witnessed a situation where a cable retrieve had just finished and a slight cable overrun had occurred, leaving a single strand over the side of the drum.
The item estimate vs actual is 5% over budget (cost overrun) the project cost is under budget (project cost underrun). Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
Rather than merely alerting the American public to the problems Mexico has long been facing from the narcotraficantes, I fear that the main reaction of the average gringo to this development will be that in addition to flooding their borders with illegal immigrants who are taking jobs from Americans, Mexico is now overrunning the country with drug cartel mafiosi. Project Coronado
Thraco-Phrygian peoples who had overrun the Balkans, occupied Thrace and Macedonia, and crossed into Asia Minor. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Do you like to see a lot of people coming in from the city and overrunning the place here?
This, however, was no unwonted mood of passion with Darsie Latimer, upon whom Cupid was used to triumph only in the degree of a Mahratta conqueror, who overruns a province with the rapidity of lightning, but finds it impossible to retain it beyond a very brief space. Redgauntlet
Between cost overruns and long-term upkeep, it will end up costing taxpayers a fortune -- and the illegal immigrants will just shift their border crossings to areas beyond the reach of the fence. David Wallechinsky: The Border Fence: A Work of Art?
Had one promising run but was often overrun in midfield. Times, Sunday Times
We stood outside to get windswept, missed the commentary and walked ashore to discover that Rottnest Island is overrun with quokkas - long tailed, short faced, round-eared marsupials that look disconcertingly like giant rats.
Although the baroque building, which was built in 1907, was recently refurbished inside, the exterior is repeatedly covered in graffiti and overrun with litter.
A rag of colts will overrun the streets as the riding center launches a public art exhibition of life-size horses painted by artists.
It describes a foundering civilisation, soon to be overrun, with the obligatory postscript from a future archaeologist noting that the ruins sit upon evidence of yet another culture.
Remember that this is a carrier, not a fleet; so don't expect old tactics of overrunning the enemy position with superior numbers to work.
This year my garden has become overrun with wild rabbits from the field next door. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike many pretty spots on the California coast, Baywood Park isn't overrun with tourists.
Large events such as the Olympics and Commonwealth Games are often plagued by budget overruns, slack ticket sales and venue fiascos but bad publicity about Manchester has been notably absent.
In a genre overrun by sleazo cheapies, he is the best technician and the only artist.
Another rebel-held town was overrun yesterday as the military continued to make gains. Times, Sunday Times
Thier numbers need to be humanely controlled or else they would overrun the place.
But in my book, beauty without smiles and charm means very little in an industry overrun by glitz and glitter.
This year my garden has become overrun with wild rabbits from the field next door. Times, Sunday Times
Still, it's a valuable lesson for anyone who finds their property overrun by squatters in the future. The Sun
With the beaming patriarch, the tolerant kuia, the benign figures from the afterlife (including a stereotypical errant male) and the quota of cute talking animals (though only the reader gets to hear them), the story is at times overrun with syrupy sweetness and light.
That stadium was blighted by cost overruns and delays. Times, Sunday Times
The advertising department has overrun its budget three years in row.
To Tand's amusement, Tanj had taken a nap; a nap that had extended through lunch and was threatening to overrun dinner…
Because the kitchen was dirty, it was overrun by insects.
That stadium was blighted by cost overruns and delays. Times, Sunday Times
Wild garlic pesto Many of you got in touch requesting my wild garlic pesto recipe - damp woodland is overrun with the leaves at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
The trees thin and chiefly cypress, with occasionally a large sterculia, but no water whatever: at the ninth mile we entered a very thick eucalyptus brush, overrun with creepers and prickly acacia bushes. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
In addition, we wish to discuss our costs overruns with yourselves and the client at your earliest convenience, in hopes of coming to some settlement that is fair to all parties.
Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Instead, the elusively-authored document reveals an organization that is either undeniably intent on delivering a full-faced bitch slap to Hillary Clinton, or just overrun with completely incompetent interns. Dan Treul: Dirty Leaflet Campaign Launched Against Clinton
They are asking people to demonstrate on 2 July at the same time as the police are claiming Edinburgh will be overrun by anarchists.
So then, after a very wet winter, or something, there were mice overrunning the craft room where I plied my trade as community craft-worker person.
An overrunning clutch transmits torque in one direction only and permits the driven shaft of a machine to freewheel, or keep on rotating when the driver is stopped.
Their only fear is that they will be overrun by alien invaders - such as Chuck! The Sun
MoD officials hope the new system will improve the department's dire record of costly overruns and delays on big defence projects. Times, Sunday Times
Well, the states still have equal suffrage in the Senate, but this kind of what I call shyster lawyerism has been used to permit the federal government to overrun the Constitutional bounds on its powers. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Sotomayor Vote:
Interim glowing takes place when necessary, for example after extended overrun if engine temperature has reduced.
Wayland is a world overrun with Yuuzhan Vong flora and faunaâ€ almost all of it hostile to humans. Dark Horse Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
My pilot finally figured out that the arresting gear was for overruns only, so we decided to skip the arrested landing and concentrate on finding the runway.
No other type of megaproject is this consistent regarding cost overrun.
(The elf is not the most courageous of our heroes, unfortunately) While reforging the key to the door that would lead them even deeper down, the heroes were overrun by enemies, but the key was ready mere seconds before they had to make a hasty retreat. Weekend heroes in the Great Barrows
Next weekend the capital will be overrun by television types, in town for their weekend bacchanalia.
What tends to happen instead is the kind of coy allusiveness coupled with total transparency of motive you meet, for example, in The Black Star, where our heroes most improbably find a light aircraft in which to escape the overrun city: A Great Disturbance in the Plot « Gerry Canavan
Finding an undiscovered corner of Europe not overrun with tourist hordes is becoming increasingly difficult.
Unless you've taken steps to eliminate or reduce weed seeds in the soil before planting, weeds may overrun a seeded lawn.
Enemy soldiers had overrun the island.
On Thursday, Florida Rep. John L. Mica R said that he sought to broker a deal that would have allowed private investors into the Florida rail proposal as a hedge against overruns but that Scott could not be persuaded to support what he called a "boondoggle. Dollars from Florida's high-speed rail project up for grabs
The nightmares had overrun his dreams again, leaving a sour ache in his soul, and he'd gone and taken it out on her.
Now the cost overrun is becoming the central issue, the social justice folks are becoming more interested in the tunnel issue than ever before. McGinn Outfoxes Council President Conlin « PubliCola
As the overruns were probably stolen, there would be the crime of interstate transportation of stolen goods.
The fire department was dispatched to a controlled grass fire that had overrun its boundaries and was threatening the neighbour's field.
Not long afterwards, the country was overrun by war. Fairy Tales
Before the war one hardly ever heard of that class, mother used to say, it was so humble and unpresuming – but in the last twenty-five or thirty years it has overrun everything and most of the land about here has passed into its possession. The Miller of Old Church
And if the overrun is 30% or more, starting 18 months after the Administrator's report to Congress, _no_ funds can be expended on the project unless Congress specifically authorizes them --- except costs for termination. Push Back on MSL Cuts - NASA Watch
Hastily formed forces like the U. S. Army's Task Force Smith resisted valiantly, but the infantry was overrun in desperate rearguard battles.
Instead of ancient Persia, the action here is set in contemporary New York already overrun with riotous violence.
We are told that the budget could overrun by 5 billion. Times, Sunday Times
These include multibillionpound cost overruns and problems with the arrester hook that helps the jet to land on aircraft carriers. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, any desired degree of braking restriction can be imposed upon the overrunning motor.
If we are talking about massive cost overruns we are presumably talking about massive cuts to the plan.
The tiny village was overrun by tourists.
I just have this image in my head of a quiet suburban street being overrun by Aliens loping on all fours over the tarmac.
GOELZ: And -- and you can have these things called arrester beds that will stop an overrun, but you really need 500 or 650 feet of arrester bed to stop a plane. CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2005
To submit that cost overrun is the main reason to cancel the deep-bore tunnel is to save face by concealling the more pertinent concerns about engineering and integrity. O’Brien Grills Staffers About Tunnel Cost Overruns « PubliCola
After having visited for the first time last week, it's hard to imagine such a tranquil place being overrun by queues and people. Times, Sunday Times
It's still disappointing that they are taking so long and overrunning on jobs when they must appreciate the congestion and damage it's causing to the town centre.
In one instance, Fall documents the capture of the overrun Algerian troops on French strongpoint Gabrielle early in the battle.
Loading time therefore decreed that in combat Texans fire in relays, half the men always carrying charged rifles to prevent being overrun.
Those who tried to form a human chain around the centre were quickly overrun and up to 25 were reported to have been arrested. Times, Sunday Times
When we visited Tobermory last summer, the place was overrun by 3-7 year olds wearing pink and following in the footsteps of their heroes.
But the real potential lies in the minds of everyone who has ever grumped about Britain's most beautiful places being overrun by trippers.
A new phenomenon a youth subculture had reared its head, but the Comet seemed satisfied that the borough was not in imminent danger of being overrun.
Why do we keep hearing about cost overruns within defence purchasing?
But the constant laughing on set does mean filming can overrun. The Sun
But the constant laughing on set does mean filming can overrun. The Sun
We should stop the nonsense of taxpayers trying to finance new weapons whose costs always overrun hugely.
Only the taxpayer is there to take financial pain if there are cost overruns or operational failures. Times, Sunday Times
It looks as if we're going to overrun our budget.
Second, the staff enforces a laissez-faire attitude among the other patrons so that the place isn't overrun by autograph-seekers.
The Earth is overrun by flesh-eating zombies, and the bunker is used for both shelter and experimentation.
With Scottish elections due next year and the devolved parliament already under fire for costs overrunning on its new building, that would be a severe blow to devolution.
They begin by dealing with a home overrun by wild creatures. The Sun
The ships would be cheaper to build overseas and the company wouldn't have to absorb risks and potential cost overruns.
Holt burst into Ilkley's box and appeared to overrun the ball beyond the dead ball line by a yard and a half.
He was stunned to discover cost overruns of at least $1 billion.
It is the third successive day that this project has overrun, and this makes us deeply concerned about the delivery of the project. Times, Sunday Times
Leicester were being overrun in midfield and their defence looked as leaky as a colander. The Sun
Mr. Murakami, who lives near a hilltop shrine overrun by flies from several frozen-fish warehouses, spends his days shooing the insects away with a red flyswatter and smoky incense. Japan Military Targets New Enemy: Flies
Get pratical, In any industry the more unknowns in a project estimate the greater the cost overrun is going to be and the higher the risk. MSL Delay: Add 2 Years and $400 Million (and counting) - NASA Watch
The booklet does though contain plenty of suggestions that are not overrun and are still tendance - fashionable among the young. Times, Sunday Times
The new expression of "State of the Art" is being overrun the U.S.
I had assumed the place would be overrun with Inklings fans and legions of folks trying to channel Frodo and Co. at the Prancing Pony.
MoD officials hope the new system will improve the department's dire record of costly overruns and delays on big defence projects. Times, Sunday Times
Later on we learned that Cornelius had been allowed to overrun by an hour, curfew be damned.
But the place is not overrun with tourists. The Sun
But in my book, beauty without smiles and charm means very little in an industry overrun by glitz and glitter.
Thus the title character's voice, Robert's silence at the conversazione, and the plot's narrative structure send powerful messages about the black future that virtually overrun the contesting call-and-response dynamic.
The four others it is working on have been hobbled by delays and vast cost overruns. Times, Sunday Times
The four others it is working on have been hobbled by delays and vast cost overruns. Times, Sunday Times
Councillors also threw their support behind the Osbaldwick number six bus route, even though villagers claim it is hardly used, and some buses are overrunning pavements on narrow roads.
The big-ticket item, and the part that will generate the biggest cost overruns, is the Capitol Hill / U-District tunnel.
‘When the cost of projects overrun there are only two possible results.’
Cost overruns from the 1995 expansion made for a rough start in 1996.
Consider that the highway project AVERAGE overrun is 25%. Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
The increase is called overrun, and in a fluffy ice cream can be as much as 100%: that is, the final ice cream volume is half mix and half air. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
DOWNSIDE The town can get overrun by tourists. Times, Sunday Times
Farther off, several scattered towers reared twenty or thirty meters above the forest, iridescent and lacily graceful where ivylike growth had not overrun them. Starfarers
the cost overrun necessitated an additional allocation of funds in the budget
At the sight of this vision he was much assured, and with swift marches overrunning all the interjacent places, takes Beroea, and making his head-quarters there, reduced the rest of the country by his commanders. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Hospitals overrun with victims of the icy conditions cancelled operations. The Sun
Illegal subcontracting, unjustifiable fees and inexplicable budget overruns contributed to a grim mix of apparent frauds. Times, Sunday Times
Leicester were being overrun in midfield and their defence looked as leaky as a colander. The Sun
Invaders such as purple-flowered Asian melastome and strawberry guava threaten to overrun delicate Hawaiian natives such as thornless roses and delicate tree ferns.
Judging from previous cost overruns, we're inclined to believe him.
This system can also contribute to fuel saving by permitting regeneration at opportune times such as when the vehicle is on overrun.
the emergency room was overrun with walk-ins
It has become overpriced, overrated and overrun with ridiculous people who live absurd lives.
Producing fewer printed sheets than specified or ordered. Trade customs permit a standard tolerance for overruns or underruns.
The believer can also fail by overrunning the boundary of Personal Love.
All the country we have seen today is well grassed with the exception of a few plains overrun with roley-poley. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
I particularly enjoyed the distant gunfire rumble it makes on the overrun. Times, Sunday Times
If the previous programme overruns, the machine will delay recording; you can also set it to save a whole series.
In 1969 the canyon shut down, overrun by motorcyclists, students, and assorted rowdies.
Private parties have overtaken casual dining rooms, and restaurants have subleased their spaces to the studios for the week. 7-11's are overrun with hipsters scoring individual cereal containers and feeling lucky about the purchase. Marie Elena Martinez: Why to or Not to Go to Park City During the Sundance Film Festival
The best Red Army units were foolishly positioned on the unfortified frontier, where they were overrun.
Owner and contractor may split any savings or cost overruns beyond the dead band according to a predetermined percentage.
It's a pleasant market town that trades on its literary connections as cannily as you might expect, but the tourists did not appear to have overrun the place when I paid my early summer visit.
For years we were overrun with jackrabbits to the point their hunting and netting was featured in Life magazine, but they run in cycles and are now in the down cycle with very few encountered.
However, it quickly became mired in bureaucracy and cost overruns that have slowed its construction and made its completion date uncertain.
Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
Casey Brewer of Duvall, Wash., hired The Goat Lady LLC to clear half an acre overrun with salmonberries. Free-Range Landscaping
In a matter of hours the presidential election, heretofore free of interference from legal insects, was overrun by hymenopterous lawyers.
Much that is called “woods” was about half as high as this, — only patches of shrub-oak, bayberry, beach-plum, and wild roses, overrun with woodbine. 2007 August : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
The production will tell the classic story of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger trying to overcome the evil ferrets, weasels and stoats who threaten to overrun the riverbank.
A passion vine had overrun and enclasped a vase with a perfect symmetry no sculptor could have achieved. Under the Redwoods
During a performance of Swan Lake, wacky cops and jewel thieves overrun the stage.
Check the cost and time overruns for flyover constructions.
The investigation into the frustrating delays and horrendous cost overruns associated with the new £400m - and rising - parliament building at Holyrood has been a compelling spectacle.
All follow a similar pattern with maximum lengths of 7m, excluding the drawbar, and weights up to 3.5t GVM; the limit for overrun brake systems.
He was 44, divorced, his backyard overrun with crabgrass.
They don't overrun the place; it's just that their presence is more obvious tonight (this morning) than I've noticed in past overnight layovers here.
Verifies that the matcher can't overrun the stack ( no matter what the expression ).
Apulia, the heel of Italy's boot, is beautiful, affordable - and not overrun with tourists
Within months — on May 7, 1954, to be exact — Dien Bien Phu was overrun by the Vietminh. The French Connection
If by some amazing circumstances you were completely oblivious to the fact that international superstars have overrun our city for the past two weeks, you probably missed out on some great shows.
But the place is not overrun with tourists. The Sun
The Roman Empire was overrun by Nordic barbarians.
The plot of land on a passageway was overrun with nettles and has not been touched for more than 20 years.
Poland was overrun and he was conscripted into the Red Army.
Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
There should be a system whereby if roadworks overrun then the company responsible should be fined.
The documents show a series of problems and overruns costing hundreds of millions of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
But the market is in disorder, overrun by fake and inferior goods.
CLOTHES shops are overrun with sparkle, sequins and silly jumpers - and we love it. The Sun
What tends to happen instead is the kind of coy allusiveness coupled with total transparency of motive you meet, for example, in The Black Star, where our heroes most improbably find a light aircraft in which to escape the overrun city: A Great Disturbance in the Plot « Gerry Canavan
Sometimes the ship just gets too overrun with barnacles and the whole thing has to be scraped clean.
It is a curious circumstance, in fact, that the animals and plants of the Northern Hemisphere are not only as well adapted to live in the Southern Hemisphere as its own autochthones, but are in many cases absolutely better adapted, and so overrun and extirpate the aborigines. Essays
Sometimes you hear short extracts of music to fill in the gap between the end of one song and the start of the news; sometimes the news tape is started 10 seconds in, after a song or ad overruns.
A wicked mayor plans to overrun the town with rats, close the local primary school and convert it into loft apartments.
Budget overruns, delays and upsets have shown project management is no panacea. Times, Sunday Times
We don't want our nation overrun by a host of poodles, corgis or pit bull terriers.
Using a flip chart or other visual aids also adds to the time. Remember — it is better to finish slightly early than to overrun.
It's not as if the world has been overrun with people who have evolved long, spindly, super-springy fingers to touch-type on traditional keyboards, after all.
A public service agency spends so much time studying the financial implications of a project that cost overruns are virtually guaranteed.
Frederick Henry "Fred" Osborn III , 63 years old, loves the property built by his grandfather and would prefer to keep it in the family, but he often has to cover cost overruns at Cat Rock. Family Grapples With Castle on Hudson
I particularly enjoyed the distant gunfire rumble it makes on the overrun. Times, Sunday Times
The site was overrun by rats which is why they brought the rifle.
The last thing anyone wants is for some bozo scientist to accidentally open a gateway to the netherworld, subsequently causing our reality to be overrun by demonic monstrosities.
The town centre can be overrun with tourists. Times, Sunday Times
However, that city was overrun with graduates from the law school, most of whom graduated with a better record than she had. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » May » 13
Enemy soldiers had overrun the island.
It is not long before the goons are overrunning the guards and engaging with them in hand-to-hand combat.
A virtual kaleidoscope of colour inundate not only the standing piles, but also overrun old fallen timbers that overlap, forming small overhangs and grottoes.
In many commercial printings, overruns are part of the process.
The town centre can be overrun with tourists. Times, Sunday Times
So we will see some inevitable growth, but the backcountry won't be overrun.
Not long afterwards, the country was overrun by war. Fairy Tales

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