'overtake' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'overtake' with 11 example sentences.
- overtake verb
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: 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?