How To Use Overtake In A Sentence

The former Olympic champion may now have been overtaken, but a debt of gratitude is owed to her by the vibrant new star of her sport. Times, Sunday Times
Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
I accelerated to overtake the bus.
Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
Studies done in the UK of children from two to 11 years show that high early achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds are overtaken between age five and 10 by low early achievers from advantaged backgrounds.

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This raises the question of when one will overtake the other. Times, Sunday Times
The accident happened as Fogarty tried to overtake Robert Ulm on a bend during the fifth lap.
While leaders in Beijing remain vigilant against Japanese "rearmament," their rhetoric is part of an orchestrated strategy to overtake Japan as the region's pre-eminent power. Smoke Alarm
He was overtaken on the final lap.
The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory.
One of the risks of being a historian of the present, of course, is that events can overtake you.
At the same time, you must overtake the security guards, disengage the alarm system, and disable the security cameras.
The driver was apparently trying to overtake two vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
I was driving and waited until the road ahead was clear before attempting to overtake.
Our April 13 statement has now been overtaken by events.
Now I know not whether Shoaib is the fastest ever (and this is not a forum for that chestnut) although I reckon that when on the rampage, before he let the ball go, he would have overtaken in his run-up anything bowled by Paul Collingwood, and know that the fastest single delivery I ever saw castled the New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup. Shaun Tait is certainly very fast, but 100mph?
If your seedlings lose their growth momentum, fast growing vegetation will overtake them.
The first firman made its way slowly from Constantinople to Athens, but events had overtaken it by the time it arrived.
When it's wet, great care is needed at roundabouts, as it's easy to get the back of this rear-wheel drive vehicle trying to overtake the front.
What concerns me is the habit most motorcyclists have of weaving between vehicles to overtake on congested motorways. Times, Sunday Times
As we are currently holding second place in the Eastern Centre Championship, we are hoping to have a good run at this one to see if we can overtake the current holder of this title.
In a wild chase the crews finally overtake a very old and crippled whale.
I was overtaken by a sudden wave of tiredness.
The overtaking boat should slow down when just aft the stern of the boat being overtaken and proceed around at the slowest speed possible to pass.
Our US sales have now overtaken our sales in Europe.
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Jack Womersley, a former Bradford councillor, saw the motorbike overtake two cars and disappear over the brow of a hill moments before the collision.
He shall find nothing remaining but those sorrows which grow up after our fast-springing youth, overtake it when it is at a stand, and overtop it utterly when it begins to wither; insomuch as, looking back from the very instant time, and from our now being, the poor, diseased, and captive creature hath as little sense of all his former miseries and pains as he that is most blest, in common opinion, hath of his forepast pleasures and delights. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
Thou think'st them to o'ertake, Thou thinkest to overtake them, for all thou'rt fettered fast; while thou bearest Thy sins from thy desire Follies, which slay thee whatso do hinder thee, perdie. way thou farest. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Today's innovation may be overtaken by tomorrow's new technology or new market demands.
Infections from C.diff. have overtaken MRSA infections in some U.S. hospitals, says one new study. NPR Topics: News
Half way through the park Quinn was overtaken by an urge to rest.
Never try to overtake on a bend.
I help with the maintenance; we weed, then wield machetes and trowels to chop back the viny grass that threatens to overtake bare soil.
I was suddenly overtaken by feelings of panic and fear.
Indeed, Japan has overtaken China as the largest buyer of US Treasuries in recent months.
In handling the crisis, then, a justifiable prudential strategy was, by March, overtaken and overwhelmed by this paradigm, underpinned by a commitment that became increasingly messianic.
Each day of this breathtaking summer it seemed like one glorious performance was overtaken by another. The Sun
The anarchist thrust is most effective in recovering those overtaken by fame (or notoriety) of a different kind. The Times Literary Supplement
She suffered the same fate in the 2001 world championships, leading until the final lap where she was overtaken by a trio of Ethiopians.
Along the way a dog barks, a red car overtakes and the bus slows down to allow lambs to cross the road. Times, Sunday Times
As U.S. wine sales grow, reds have overtaken whites.
This year a general mood of depression has overtaken people whose lives depend on agriculture.
Shops and restaurants would complete the building, set to overtake Milton Keynes as the biggest indoor alpine ski complex in Britain.
Break the speed limit in the pits, overtake when the yellow flags are out or cut a corner in qualifying and you'll find yourself facing the wrath of your team when you get back to the garage.
Watching a faster car overtake a slower one on a straight. The Sun
As she walked, a spring began to overtake her trudge.
As machinery began to overtake the use of workhorses, the Black Forest horse became endangered.
And I prefer to go forth and meet my destiny, not skulk at home in hiding waiting for fate to overtake me. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
This means that the car threads through traffic with ease and overtakes dawdlers in a flash.
For example, you can never overtake the derny. The Sun
Streaming has overtaken both physical sales and digital downloads as the most popular way of listening to music, with fans choosing to play songs online. Times, Sunday Times
Hissing seconds pass, a lorry overtakes, effervescent bebop fills the car. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
What gets Washington all jammed up is when ideology and labels overtake what is the clear reality of a circumstance. Presidents Remarks After Crime Bill Passage
Addressing delegates at his party's spring conference in Aviemore, Mr Stephen said "new localism" would help the Lib Dems to overtake Labour. Localism and equality
Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee.
The unprecedented economic boom has overtaken the entire infrastructure implemented by the city planners.
The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the The History of the Peloponnesian War
A car, which was trying to overtake another vehicle, allegedly collided with their bicycles.
For instance, in CO, where McCain "overtakes" Obama, suddenly the Senate race where Udall was up several points is now tied. Polls: McCain Coming On Strong In Battleground States
If rivals have moved ahead, how to catch them and overtake? Times, Sunday Times
The film is soon overtaken by a new mood towards the churchy authorities, and the uptight religious types are shown to be just as nice as unwed moms.
It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone will be stupid enough to try and overtake them.
When hard-pressed, they soon take to the water, and swim so well that a four oared boat can scarcely come up with them, but an Esquimaux in his kaiak more readily overtakes them. The Moravians in Labrador
Surely, the last thing we want is to discover is that productive economic players are overtaken by a sudden sense of sufficiency.
When Christianity became the state religion of the Roman empire, the early Christian teachings on land were overtaken by the Roman land laws of "dominium" - a legalization of property in land originally obtained by conquest and plunder. P2P Foundation
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill
The car collided with the front offside of the lorry after crossing the centre of the road, possibly to overtake.
The Traveller, 'walking up hill bridle in hand,' overtakes 'a poor woman; 'the image, as such commonly are, of drudgery and scarcity; The French Revolution
Already tops for industrial roundwood and tropical logs, China is on course to overtake the United States as the number-one timber importer in all categories.61 When a Billion Chinese Jump
The horrible old woman made him afraid, especially did her last words make him afraid, because he who was experienced in such matters knew that she had come with no intention of uttering them, that they had burst from her lips in a sudden semi-trance such as overtakes her sisterhood from time to time. Love Eternal
It ticked away, indifferent to the apocalypse that had overtaken its owner. THE HELLBOUND HEART
Suddenly Guinevere was overtaken by an intense longing for companionship.
If rivals have moved ahead, how to catch them and overtake? Times, Sunday Times
A violent and what most have described as a cannibalistic impulse seemed to overtake the bodies as they started to attack and devour the living, said a police chief in Miami. Down the Road
He found that the report he had written had been overtaken by events .
Religious, philosophical, and topographical works were published in large numbers, though eventually overtaken in popularity by the novel.
It may be realized that in spite of its air of being impossible to "overtake" -- I must, in this connection, continue to quote its mistress -- there was an attractiveness about the dwelling of the The Imperialist
Although that document now appears to have been overtaken by events, it is instructive to examine the legal terms as part of the sensitive political gamesmanship.
Board and rider must be moving shoreward at a good rate before the wave overtakes them. Jack London:Surfing in Hawaii
The French bulldog looks as if it couldn't overtake much at all. Times, Sunday Times
Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
Miles per gallon Then, on a long haul, it wouldn't go up hill or overtake on the flat.
HAL gets overtaken by the “please hold” Apple pinwheel, HAL engages in a blinking contest with AUTO from WALL*E, HAL gets a makeover from Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash … HAL 9000 vs. IBM 7094: Which 'Daisy' is creepier? | EW.com
By the time she reached the bathroom she was hemorrhaging and the cramps had overtaken her so that he had to grab her before she fell.
Tragedy was shortly to overtake him, however.
Curiosity was overtaken by bewilderment, bewilderment by shock, and shock by a stringe mixture of relief and amusement. Deadline for Murder
As time went by, a subtle change began to overtake her, transforming her by degrees into another person hardly recognizable to her children.
If I was a Shinner, I would be deeply scundered at the outcome of the Euro-election in Munster, where Toiréasa Ferris managed an excellent third place, but still missed out on a seat, being overtaken on transfers. Slugger O'Toole
But the call overtakes him and the spirit now of God’s own might enters into him. Sermons for the New Life.
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
Despite the magnitude of these developments, they were overtaken and eventually eclipsed in the nineteenth century.
Its precipitous decline serves as a salutary reminder of how rapidly pioneering companies can be overtaken in the technology industry. Times, Sunday Times
It said that the number of businesses less confident about prospects over the next 12 months continues to overtake the number who expect conditions to improve. Times, Sunday Times
British had at the outset a slight superiority, but not beyond the power of the United States to overtake and outpass. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1
The more I ceased to "repress" the political events of the Bush years, is the more I found myself overtaken with moral/rational outrage. A personal note to my friends (and otherwise) at Op-Ed News.
In the bank's latest report, it has overtaken Colombia to become the most straightforward country in Latin America in which to do business, and the 35th easiest in the world, up from 41st last year.
A lowly mixed stuttering guitar eeks out two short notes, only to be overtaken by an orchestral swell of repetitive notes.
Over the past four months London has overtaken the rest of the country for employment growth. Times, Sunday Times
Why are such decent men, of such ability and goodwill, now being overtaken by events?
Her delivery, too, is eerily good – a show of demure solicitude, invariably overtaken by steely, wild-eyed stridency. The Iron Lady: first screening
Travelling toilsomely one hot day between Peebles and Selkirk, with his tools over his back, he was overtaken by a carriage containing a grey-haired gentleman, whom he did not know.
Another dangerous situation to be avoided at all cost is to find yourself in the nearside lane being very slowly overtaken by a lorry and trailer that is moving across your path!
That's the key to what we have to do, is we have to maintain the ability to pass and overtake.
Birdalone lay still a little, lest she should fall into a trap, and then arose very quietly and did on her smock, which lay ever under her pillow with the ring sewn thereto again, and so went out adoors also, and deemed she saw the witch some way on ahead; but it was nothing for her light feet to overtake her. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
It is a dark stretch of road and the driver who was overtaken may not have been aware of the accident behind.
By now, we may have expected a mood of depressed fatalism to have overtaken Britain.
Before leaving, Mr. Perry made arrangements with the old borderman for me to overtake them as soon as Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events
This week, however, it suddenly struck me that a whole subset of electronica had not only passed me by, but had overtaken me at great speed, leaving me standing drop-jawed and uncomprehending in its wake.
The object world falls back and away, and invasions from the unconscious overtake and overwhelm one.
Whilst they were thus speculating on the issue of the rencounter the valiant bonnet maker began to pull up Jezabel, in order that the smith, who he still concluded was close behind, might overtake him, and either advance first or at least abreast of himself. The Fair Maid of Perth
Hoss urged the horse to a faster pace to overtake the lead animal, and slow the little group down.
She let her career overtake the relationship, and she's become too controlling and domineering.
And its consumption of bourbon whisky is about to overtake that of the US.
And those who believe in the idea of the ultimate municipalization of most large industries, will continue to find in this non-localized class, working especially through the medium of Parliament, a persistent and effective obstruction to all such projects, unless such a rectification of areas can be contrived as will overtake the delocalization and the diffusion of interests that has been and is still going on. Mankind in the Making
M. Ferrand survives where his English counterpart has disappeared because change has not overwhelmed him with the suddenness that it has overtaken his analogues in Britain.
Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards.
While books by Indian authors are flying off the shelves, tandoori fare is reputed to have overtaken fish and chips as the national favorite.
This is the evil that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.
When carriages and horses took the perilous shortcut from Lancaster to Kendal a number came to grief, sucked under the sands, or overtaken by an incoming tide, racing at the speed of a galloping horse.
The costs were massive and new procedures were often overtaken by events even before they were implemented.
The team has managed to overtake last year's successes to receive commendation for every entry they submitted this year.
Murder dropped enough in 2010 that it was overtaken at No. 15 by a respiratory illness called pneumonitis that is seen mainly in people 75 and older. The Seattle Times
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken. Smithsonian Mag
The positive neutrality enjoined on the force has now been overtaken by events.
So the gap between us is still six points and they are still one of the teams we are aiming to catch and overtake. The Sun
Moments before the crash, a retired PC watched a blue car indicate then pull out ahead and overtake a horse box.
Classic cars regularly race ahead when it comes to luxury investments, but they could soon be overtaken by vehicles on two wheels. Times, Sunday Times
After ballasting his ship with silver from the rich Potosi mines, and rifling even the churches, he hastened onward in pursuit of a richly laden galleon nicknamed _Cacafuego_ -- a name discreetly translated _Spitfire_, but which, to repeat a joke that greatly amused Drake's men at the time, it was proposed to change to _Spitsilver_, for when overtaken and captured the vessel yielded 26 tons of silver, 13 chests of pieces of eight, and gold and jewels sufficient to swell the booty to half a million pounds sterling. A History of Sea Power
Express bus drivers who don't overtake other buses, hence stopping unnecessarily at every stop.
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill
You get here and the destructive culture kind of overtakes and overpowers everything else. Traitor or Truthteller?
Despite those rewards, it is unlikely that single camera comedy will overtake traditional comedy as the genre's leading format.
In recent years, low prices have devastated coffee farming in Rwanda, and tea exports have now overtaken coffee.
The idea of a classical republic inspired a tradition of thought which, overtaken by the new politics of reason of state in early modern times, was preserved largely in the writings of philosophers, utopians, and pamphleteers.
Clinton has fought a good fight, she need to understand now that the fight is between dem and rep, Obama is almost impossible to be overtaken now, if clinton's delay in conceding to him would damage the dem chances for the oval office and that would be a big dent on her legacy. Vilsack says it's over
In this, time was an indispensable ally: dictators might die, crops fail, disaster overtake an expedition; it all helps, given time.
They battle amongst themselves, and with him, until the government becomes nothing more than a game board upon which each faction presses his advantage of the moment, only to be outmaneuvered or overtaken by a rival.
Isn't it just so annoying when one lorry travelling at 60 mph tries to overtake another which is travelling at 58 mph?
He pulled out to overtake the van.
And if the availability of higher loan-to-value mortgages remains scarce, we could see the cost of renting overtake that of buying in some parts of the country. Times, Sunday Times
It is faithfulness to a complex tradition that forestalls being overtaken by majoritarianism or convention.
They kept on a north-northeasterly course for two days, when they were overtaken by a calm which lasted for nearly a week. Tarzan of the Apes
The CDC announced Wednesday that murder rates dropped enough in 2010 that it was overtaken at No. 15 by a respiratory illness called pneumonitis that is seen mainly in people 75 and older. Breaking News: CBS News
So the gap between us is still six points and they are still one of the teams we are aiming to catch and overtake. The Sun
Classic cars regularly race ahead when it comes to luxury investments, but they could soon be overtaken by vehicles on two wheels. Times, Sunday Times
The seven largest US biotechnology firms have overtaken the pharmaceutical industry's 9.1% rise.
He said the boom in China's economy had helped shipping overtake tourism.
Apparently, race has now overtaken even sex as a predictor of criminality (and that's without allowing for the fact that much female criminality consists of civil and unpunishable cheating on men).
It would not be restricted to travelling under wires, so could follow diversions and overtake other trolleybuses.
Whilst anchored in Chevalier Creek, Surville was overtaken by a frightful tempest, which brought him within an ace of destruction, but his sailors had such confidence in his nautical ability that they felt no anxiety, and obeyed his orders with a _sang froid_ of which, unfortunately, the Maoris were the sole spectators. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
A few years back, over strenuous public protests, that vantage point was overtaken. Smithsonian Mag
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.
Always check your rear view mirror before you overtake .
But although he continued recording, his deep soul style was rapidly overtaken by funk and disco and, later, rap.
Tourism and family remittances have overtaken traditional exports as the country's prime earners.
She shows how Hispanic minors are poised to overtake African Americans as the largest ethnic youth population in the country.
Japan's productivity has overtaken America in some industries, but elsewhere the United States has clung on to its lead.
A bee, overtaken in his busy pilfering by the obliterating dusk, hung on a nodding mountain flower, unfearful above the cañon's emptiness. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
Sales are booming in Japan, which has overtaken Britain as the Mini's biggest market.
Hissing seconds pass, a lorry overtakes, effervescent bebop fills the car. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
Its precipitous decline serves as a salutary reminder of how rapidly pioneering companies can be overtaken in the technology industry. Times, Sunday Times
May 22nd, at about four o'clock, we started, breakfastless, to overtake the rest of our brigade. The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster
Then the _contrabandista_ turned and walked sharply across the cavern-like chamber to overtake his men, and as he disappeared, distant but sharp and echoing _rap, rap, rap_, came the reports of firearms, and Punch looked sharply at his companion. !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War
The fact is that private and corporate money has overtaken public subsidy in festival funding.
It's dangerous to overtake at a corner.
Later that year he presented the Report on Manufactures, an ambitious plan to overtake Britain in industrial output.
In the next century, nuclear energy could overtake oil as the main fuel.
A fellow driver chose to have words with him and criticised him for weaving about on the track in order to balk those who try to overtake.
At this rate of increase, provided that subsistence is not overtaken, a century from now the population of THE HUMAN DRIFT
They battle amongst themselves, and with him, until the government becomes nothing more than a game board upon which each faction presses his advantage of the moment, only to be outmaneuvered or overtaken by a rival.
Overnight, the margin for error was reduced to almost zero, since nobody wants to overtake his own bodily excretions as he reaches terminal velocity.
It's dangerous to overtake on a bend.
Brambles, gorse and broom rapidly overtake untended ground and soon create an impenetrable terrain - ideal habitat for furtive species such as the wild boar and Iberian wolf which survive here.
Always check your rear-view mirror before pulling out to overtake.
He thought a moment and then nodded, but a distant look had overtaken his eyes.
Whichever feeling overtakes you, it's likely to be associated with change.
He moved the event forward from its usual August date to May because later in the year the course is covered in bracken and it is difficult to overtake on the narrow paths.
It will need a very sharp sprint from one man to overtake the other. Times, Sunday Times
Faced by the irrevocableness of her action, Nan was overtaken by dismay. The Moon out of Reach
Motorists who drive dangerously close to cyclists as they overtake are to be targeted by undercover police on bicycles. Times, Sunday Times
Date palms, planted originally by Afghan camel drivers in the late 1800s, have now almost overtaken the natural vegetation of pale cajeputs and pretty river gums.
It's dangerous to overtake at a corner.
Disposables have been around since at least 1935, primarily as a niche item for trips away from home, but they never broke through to overtake cloth until Pampers hit, tapping into the postwar fervor for all things new, convenient and timesaving — especially among women setting up house in suburbia. Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
If rivals have moved ahead, how to catch them and overtake? Times, Sunday Times
A wave of frivolity has overtaken the election campaign.
Coming out of the final bend, the runner stepped up a gear to overtake the rest of the pack.
She decided to just transfer her mind into a blank and void world so that her thoughts did not overtake her and carry her to a place that she didn't want to go again.
What terrible, collective insanity has overtaken this country? Times, Sunday Times
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill
If rivals have moved ahead, how to catch them and overtake? Times, Sunday Times
They have also fettled the suspension, aiming to regain the driving dynamics benchmark which many commentators say was overtaken by Ford's Focus when it first arrived.
Or was it a forecast of the deluge of disaster that has since overtaken the area and the country in the form of cold, heartless crime?
If I didn't, I feared panic would overtake me so badly that I really had no other choice but to try and go.
Judging from the night we were present, that support has been extended with a degree of lukewarmness which is exactly proportionate to the effect produced by the appeals of actors when misfortune overtakes them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841
On his way home he was overtaken by a storm.
One reason families are ill-prepared when crises overtake an old loved one, Feinstein says, is that “our society has an embedded ‘gerontophobia,’ in which people think they are younger than they are.” Shock of Gray
This area is now open ground liable to be overtaken by weeds and wattles.
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

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