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• On a motorway, you should always overtake other vehicles on the outside.From the entry outside
• He used DRS at the perfect time to gain a position by overtaking his opponent.From the entry drs
• We were overtaken on the inside by a speeding motorcyclist.From the entry speeding
• Education is getting overtaken by clankers.From the entry clanker
• They certainly didn't let sleepness overtake them while Hitler was talking.2012, Dahn A. Batchelor, Whistling in the Face of Robbers. From the entry sleepness
• About to be overtaken, she pulled a cord near her chest.2012 December, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Elyse
• "If you always stay at a company, this barbaric businessness overtakes you," he says.2005 March 14, Chris Taylor, quoting David Taylor, “School of Bright Ideas”, in Time, volume 165, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc.…. From the entry businessness
• Later, on the motorway, a car with go-faster stripes and spoilers overtakes us, horn blaring.1999, Mark Simpson, It's a Queer World. From the entry go-faster stripe
• Before the outgunned ship was overtaken and captured, a crewman was wounded, and he later died.1988 December 25, “Pueblo's Veterans Look Back on '68 in Anger”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2012. From the entry ship's company
• Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 117. From the entry generous
• Why would I try and overtake you, Magros?2013, Erin Marie Evans, The Adversary, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry archlord
• In NOEM model, once the superburst occurs the model breaks down and activism overtakes virtually all agents that are not imprisoned.2012, Shanchieh Jay Yang, Ariel M. Greenberg, Mica Endsley, Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, →ISBN. From the entry superburst
• "I understand the circus that it is," Springer says of the hurly-burly mob scene that often overtakes his show.1998, Aileen Joyce, Jerry Springer: For The First Time Ever, It All Hangs Out!, page 12. From the entry hurlyburly
• In Kundera's unsentimental vision, moreover, children serve as emblems of the mindless "infantocracy" overtaking contemporary culture in both East and West.1992, The Journal of Narrative Technique, volumes 22-23, page 87. From the entry infantocracy
• Within a few hours, the posse overtook the thieves.1986, Donald R. Lavash, Sheriff William Brady, Tragic Hero of the Lincoln County War, Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry posse
• Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54. From the entry huddle
• Just south of Wamphray Station, they overtook the runaway.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54. From the entry runaway
• Until recently, Americans may have feared the day China would overtake them as the world's largest economy, but now analysts doubt if this will happen.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC. From the entry weather
• It hasn’t helped that some especially avid pickleball fans proudly proclaim that their sport will soon overtake tennis and eagerly boast anti-tennis sportswear.2022 October 16, Rachel Simon, “In the tennis vs. pickleball showdown, who’s winning?”, in NBC News. From the entry anti-tennis
• Most riders come back and talk about their SMIDSY collisions and cornering spills but we hardly ever hear firt-hand about overtaking crashes.2017, Kevin Williams, Survival Skills, page 21. From the entry SMIDSY
• Only Berenger, hapless lover of a drink who wanders town in a state of morning-after dishevelledness, appears immune to the disease overtaking everyone around him.2017 August 10, David Pollock, “Edinburgh Festival, Rhinoceros, Royal Lyceum Theatre, review: 'Far smarter than a one-note topical…. From the entry dishevelledness
• Djokovic came through 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3 to end Nadal's reign as Wimbledon champion, before overtaking the Spaniard as world number one on Monday.2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport. From the entry number one
• Sayyid Qutb is quickly overtaking Reinhold Niebuhr as the theologian about whom the un- or antitheological pronounce with the most serene authority.2008 April 27, Leon Wieseltier, “The Catastrophist”, in New York Times. From the entry antitheological
• My brother, who had recently overtaken me in height and then racked up another six inches, ate to fill his hollow leg.2006, Amanda Boyden, Pretty Little Dirty, page 268. From the entry hollow leg
• We had not gone a mile from camp before we were overtaken by a score or more of boys going home to Missouri.1915, Ed Blair, History of Johnson County, Kansas, page 61. From the entry skift
• We have sometimes fancied that the modern noises are the utterances of that rejuvenescence, another name for recrudescence, which has overtaken the race.1906, “Editor's Easy Chair”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 113, number 678. From the entry puerilization
• On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight.2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport. From the entry chicane
• Perturbed at being overtaken, the USS Texas is leading the 6th Battle Squadron at 22-and-a-half knots as the engineers pour everything they have into the effort.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 18:32 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry dreadnought
• Suddenly, a rhythmic shaking and rattling overtook the room, shoogling and shimmying the structure in time to the acid jazz stomp riverboat boogie shuffle beat of the song.2005, Neil Keir Henderson, An English Summer in Scotland and Other Unlikely Events, page 225. From the entry shoogle
• A sudden pupaphobia overtook her as she watched the boy volley, step out, recompile a few new lines of code, step back in and volley again.2000, Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark: A Novel, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry pupaphobia
• Never be a stinker, because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter II, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry stinker
• Retreating, she watched these uninfluenced sinners fly riverwards for more mud; and as the result of the past few weeks' teaching, meditated on the judgment sure to overtake them.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry riverwards
• Not long after the start Mr Bhosh was chagrined to discover that he was all behindhand, and he almost despaired of overtaking any of his fore-runners.1902, F. Anstey, chapter 13, in A Bayard from Bengal, London: Methuen, pages 97–98. From the entry behindhand
• Semigration – where South Africans move between provinces - has overtaken emigration as a key driver for house sales in SA's largest metros, according to property data compiled by FNB.2023 August 13, Jan Cronje, “House sales: Semigration growth much stronger than emigration”, in News24. From the entry semigration

Meaning of overtake

1. verb To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).
2. verb To become greater than something else in quantity, worth, etc.
3. verb To take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.

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Questions about overtake in a sentence

How do you use overtake in a sentence?

Overtake is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The racehorse overtook the lead pack on the last turn.”

What is a short sentence with overtake?

“Education is getting overtaken by clankers.”

What does overtake mean?

Overtake means to pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).