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'overtake' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'overtake' with 11 example sentences.


overtake verb

: catch up with and possibly overtake

: travel past

: overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli


  • He accelerated his car and overtook me.
  • If you hurry, you will soon overtake her.
  • The weeds have completely overtaken the garden bed.
  • The hare was overtaken by the tortoise.
  • The city was overtaken by the jungle and disappeared.
  • Aristotle thought women were of weak nature and easily overtaken by their emotions.
  • A cart with four horses is not able to overtake the human tongue.
  • Supply will soon overtake demand.
  • We could not overtake him.
  • I was overtaken by greed.
  • Where did you overtake them?
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