So it just kind of overran us and we were just trying to find shelter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Firefighters Risk it All to Battle California Wildfires - August 6, 2000] Reference
The press of the urban overran the fertile fields. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Wills: Brooklyn Farms, Then and Now] Reference
"That new French army that came at noon overran us.". From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
At the time, militias overran the Iraqi security forces. From Wordnik.com. [As the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno bids an anxious goodbye] Reference
Two years later North Vietnamese forces overran the south. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
During this month the Italians overran the whole of Friuli. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Two years later, North Vietnamese forces overran the South. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Vietnamese forces overran the South reuniting the country under. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Now the question is whether that machine overran the bounds of law. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: The Disassembly of Tom DeLay] Reference
Hungary, overran the country and appeared before the walls of Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Still, the project missed development deadlines and overran its budget. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Siren] Reference
That divine pity which only a woman can feel filled and overran her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
General Lawton's brigade, and overran the Laguna de Bay south shore towns. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Colonel Abad, who overran the villages with about 150 followers armed with rifles. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
American troops just overran the camps, the line moving forward overran the camps. From Wordnik.com. [‘My Father’s Secret War’] Reference
North Sea, overran Denmark, and spread their mantle of bowlder clay far south into Germany. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
His words flew so fast they overran each other in effort to keep abreast of his racing ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
I was in Tangiers when my Bosnian Serb cousins overran Srebrenica and slaughtered its menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [What It's Like Being A Serb] Reference
The Chinese overran Roger's unit, the 19th Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division, that winter. From Wordnik.com. [Scars No One Sees] Reference
Two years later, North Vietnamese forces overran the South reuniting the country under Communist rule. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
They overran Al Qaeda up there and when it was over that evening the subordinate was up there, not Ali. From Wordnik.com. [Going After Bin Laden] Reference
Somersetshire, in the midst of the marshes where he had fled for refuge when the Danes overran his country. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
"Oh, M'sieu 'Tom," Jean's own voice overran with emotion, "is it of a truth that we hav 'fin' you at las '?". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
In 1639, however, he again overran northern Germany, defeated the Saxons at Chemnitz and invaded Bohemia itself. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The water overran part of the camping ground, compelling many a drenched soldier to shift his quarters hurriedly. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
She remained there until after the outbreak of the World War, while the Germans overran Belgium and Russia in turn. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
The Japanese were therefore able to land their troops in Korea without interruption, and soon overran the peninsula. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
This came after protesters overran two border posts between Serbia and the Serbian-majority northern part of Kosovo. From Wordnik.com. [‘They Were the Kingmakers’] Reference
Backhouse returned to Calamba, entered the Province of Batangas, overran it, and made several Austin friars prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It is impossible to describe how these miserable pests overran everything; they were on the beds, they were on the tables. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Wherever the contrary has been the case and a lower civilization overran the higher the movement of humanity was retrograde. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
The Moors, the most aggressive peoples then seeking to invade the dominions, finally overran the empire and made it a colony. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Sankoh, 68, had dropped out of sight more than a week before, after 19 demonstrators died as they overran and sacked his villa. From Wordnik.com. ['Shame Has Befallen Me'] Reference
He was caught and searched by three young farmers, who were guarding their cattle against the outlaws who overran the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington] Reference
During a protest, Bemba supporters overran the High Media Authority, which tries to rein in inflammatory campaign press on both sides. From Wordnik.com. [Diamond in the Rough] Reference
The pie was baked quickly -- and made a very good supper dish if unexpected company overran the supply of sausage or chicken for frying. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
They were a driblet of two hundred thousand such wretches who overran and menaced the city, a product of the dense illiteracy of the time. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
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