Verb (used with object) : By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train. ,He overtook the leader three laps from the finish. ,to overtake all other countries in steel production. ,The pounding rainstorm overtook them just outside the city. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Never overtake on a curve. From Dictionary.com.
Huon de Domville's displeasure, when the word overtook him, would be vented elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
And lo, as it reached the middle of the glade, the dogs that followed the stag overtook it and brought it down. From Wordnik.com. [The Mabinogion] Reference
And lo, as it reached the middle of the glade, the dogs that followed the stag overtook it, and brought it down. From Wordnik.com. [The Mabinogion Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
I think what happened was that the reality just kind of overtook them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2005] Reference
I finally dug the story out this spring, but the other big projects kind of overtook my time yeah, and travel. From Wordnik.com. [Completion] Reference
I just remember the first not guilty, and then the emotion kind of overtook me …. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference
“INISH SCULL’S just a Yankee adventurer,” Richard King said directly, when Call overtook him. From Wordnik.com. [Comanche Moon] Reference
Foliage in these new forests, in turn, was much darker than the grasses it overtook, meaning they absorbed and retained more heat. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
Now and again, brief spasms of sobbing overtook him. From Wordnik.com. [The agreement] Reference
Or was it a sudden urge that overtook you and you just followed it?. From Wordnik.com. [Kimberly Brooks: Artist As Second Career: The Wild World Of Kathy Taslitz] Reference
In 2009, China overtook Germany to become the world's largest exporter. From Wordnik.com. [George T. Haley: When Government Fails: Grade F for Exchange Rates and Manufacturing] Reference
H-P overtook Dell as the world's largest PC maker by units in late 2006. From Wordnik.com. [H-P Outguns Dell in Takeover Duel] Reference
By 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace as the world's biggest social network. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook's intriguing world revealed] Reference
Music just overtook everything, and I started writing a lot of songs on my own. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Call Her The 'New Norah'] Reference
In May, it overtook Microsoft as the biggest technology company by market value. From Wordnik.com. [Apple opens biggest store to date in Covent Garden] Reference
In 2008, China overtook the U.S. to become the world's largest producer of paper. From Wordnik.com. [Usha Haley: The Pandora's Box of Trade With China] Reference
The largest casino is in Macao, which overtook Las Vegas in gambling revenues last year. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Rest] Reference
Satyendra's offence: his vehicle overtook the one in which an IPS officer was traveling. From Wordnik.com. [Madhavi Bhasin: Civilian Protests in J&K: A Part of Protests in Rest of India?] Reference
However, the vibration in her head overtook her thoughts; she shook her head, and stood upright. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.4: Reflection] Reference
Her feet were hurt by the stones, and her skirt was heavy with water, but soon she overtook him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Earlier this week, the Nielsen company reported that Android phones overtook sales of the iPhone. From Wordnik.com. [Update: Google, Verizon look to bridge net neutrality debate, denies reports end of open Internet] Reference
Coming back to the village, an ambulance overtook them, nearly knocking them off the narrow road. From Wordnik.com. [Amoco Cadiz] Reference
Japan has held the No. 2 spot, after the United States, since 1968, when it overtook West Germany. From Wordnik.com. [China surpasses Japan as world's No. 2 economy] Reference
He used to be first - and was the first artist to break a million - but Higa overtook him in 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Will YouTube superstardom translate to TV?] Reference
Assailants in a car overtook an Israeli vehicle and opened fire, seriously wounding an Israeli man. From Wordnik.com. [Obama, Mideast Leaders Kick Off Talks With Calls For Peace] Reference
Gradually, the show overtook the Venice Biennale as the most important anthology of contemporary art. From Wordnik.com. [The Artist As Stuntman] Reference
Tyrrell was assembling a white cabinet in a back room of the store when flames overtook all the exits. From Wordnik.com. [‘I Lost Nine Uncles All at One Time’] Reference
The Sasaki exhibit exposes it all, from the glory and gore to the patriotic frenzy that overtook Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Art Of War] Reference
It wasn't until 1981 that IBM entered the PC business and quickly overtook Apple as the No. 1 PC vendor. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Magid: Apple Proves That Innovation Pays Off, Even When Copied] Reference
In 1959 sales of solid-state transistors overtook sales of vacuum tubes, and there has been no going back. From Wordnik.com. [The Transistor] Reference
The city's 70,000 Colombians recently overtook Nicaraguans as the largest immigrant community after Cubans. From Wordnik.com. [Immigration: The New Americanos] Reference
She compares the couple's late-life delusions to "a kind of terminal cancer" that overtook the true Jeremy and Theresa. From Wordnik.com. [Truly, Madly, Deeply] Reference
But Toyota scored an even more significant victory off the track: it overtook GM to become the world's largest automaker. From Wordnik.com. [Toyota’s Olympic Turn] Reference
Airbus recently overtook Boeing in sales of commercial aircraft, and the EU recently surpassed America as China's top trading partner. From Wordnik.com. [Dream On, America] Reference
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