Sentence example with the word 'overrunning'

overrunning

alluvion, deluge, flood, inundation, overflow, overswarming, pervasion, spill, suffusion, teeming, whelming

Last update: June 21, 2015


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The directcrs of Paris, not content with overrunning and plundering Switzerland, had outraged German sentiment in many ways.   [Please select]

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--A Spartan army was soon overrunning Attica, while an Athenian fleet was ravaging the coasts of the Peloponnesus.   [Please select]

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News was now brought the Gauls that the Venetians were overrunning their possessions in Northern Italy.   [Please select]

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--While one Saracen army was overrunning Syria, another was busy with the subjugation of Persia.   [Please select]

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This was the overrunning and conquest of the country by the Tartar hordes (see p.)   [Please select]

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On the latter date he moved north along the coast, meeting at first no resistance and easily overrunning the country.   [Please select]

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When he became bishop, the Germans were overrunning the western provinces of the empire.   [Please select]

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To make things absolutely safe, a train should have positive control over a train following, to prevent the driver overrunning the signals.   [Please select]

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Overrunning Kwangsi and Hunan, they had got possession of Hankow and the two adjacent cities,--a centre of wealth which may be compared to the three cities that form our Greater New York.   [Please select]

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While the Romans were conquering the towns of Etruria, these barbarian hordes were moving southward, and overrunning and devastating the countries of Central Italy.   [Please select]

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