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Sentence example with the word 'overrun'
overrun
adopt, defeat, flare, inundation, monopolize, override, plus, run over, spread out, take up, whelm
Definition
n.
too much production or more than expected
Last update: August 31, 2015
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The place was
overrun
by uninvited audience.
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The seminar was
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by ten minutes.
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Aside from the whole mountain coming down and the Peak being
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by God-knows-who?
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"Are the French to land, and
overrun
the country."
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One day Bok was handling a story by Rudyard Kipling which had
overrun
the space allowed for it in the front.
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The whole state, from the mountains to the sea, was
overrun
by an overwhelming force of the enemy.
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They brought their horses which they had hidden in ravines and forests when the country was
overrun
by the enemy.
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Your interference, nay, probably your mere presence, would so excite him as to make him
overrun
the scent.
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It is probable that he will frequently
overrun
the birds on their doubling back, and imagine that they are gone.
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The emigration of whole peoples from one part of Europe to another did not stop when the Roman Empire was
overrun
.
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The whole country was distracted, forlorn, and miserable; it was impoverished,
overrun
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