Usage examples (36)

• The South Koreans made their move late, with Jin overtaking Wang on next-to-last turn and holding on.
• As it was, the police, with their fine trail equipment of dogs and sleds, never did succeed in overtaking him.
• And they never succeeded in overtaking, so as to pass each other, though they sometimes came up very close, and then there was twilight.
• The black huntsman grinned at the notion of overtaking the deer.