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Sentence count:98+7Posted:2017-02-28Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: catchcatch up withovercomeoverhauloverpoweroverwhelmpasssweep overwhelmSimilar words: undertaketake overundertakingovertcovertpovertyover thereoverturnMeaning: [‚əʊvə(r)teɪk]  v. 1. catch up with and possibly overtake 2. travel past 3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. 
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(61) Each time he tried to overtake, one of them would signal and pull out.
(62) For no man knows what misfortunes may overtake you.
(63) It is dangerous to overtake at a corner.
(64) The United States could overtake the Germans.
(65) I had to walk very fast to overtake you.
(66) Volkswagen recently said it intended to sell more than 10m cars by 2018 and overtake Toyota and GM to become the world's largest auto firm in terms of sales.
(67) Already the world's top emitter of sulphur dioxide, which causes acid rain, China will overtake the United States as the biggest producer of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide this year or next.
(68) We project that China will overtake the United States as the largest consumer market by 2020.
(69) I overtake the undertaker who takes my stake by mistake.
(70) For Fischer and his religious right friends, if the U.S. military overturns "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," rampant gay sex will overtake the military and lead to death and destruction.
(71) Never attempt to overtake on the crest of a hill.
(72) Drivers routinely overtake on the right, taxis breeze through red lights, cyclists ride against the traffic and pedestrians jaywalk.
(73) On some projections, it may overtake the United States in terms of purchasing power parities as early as 2016.
(74) The vessel of choice for these pirates in the early days was the galley, whose oars allowed them to overtake merchant vessels caught in light wind.
(75) Our midfielders should overtake their opposite number individually more often.
(76) The combined activities of aphidenemies overtake reproduction by the aphids.
(77) Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtake.
(78) We all know the so-called sophism of the ancients, proving that Achilles would never overtake the tortoise, though Achilles walked ten times as fast as the tortoise.
(79) That driver's trying to overtake. Slow down a bit and let him pull ahead.
(80) Huntress: Then we'd better hurry. If the undead overtake his Den before he's awakened...
(81) A container vessel wished to overtake us. I did not agree.
(82) To overtake the enemy, you must strike while the iron is hot.
(83) Here it had deteriorated so badly that I could often overtake the fabulously ornate "jingly jangly" wagons - Bedford lorries imported from Britain in the 1960s and still in service.
(84) just as bookeepers with their bees that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related ...
(85) The nation will take a "considerable" time to overtake the U.S. in terms of final consumption, combining goods and services, Huang said.
(86) A national Athenian spirit at last began to overtake tribal loyalties.
(87) For 106 years, Pepsi-Cola has been trying to overtake Coca-Cola without success.
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(88) The Briton could overtake Roger Federer in the rankings if he reaches the final and the Swiss falls before the semis.
(89) There was not much time, however, for thought or elusion, and she yielded as calmly as she could to the necessity of letting him overtake her.
(90) "Based on these predictions, we can tell that China will overtake the United States to be the world's largest trader in 2010, " Li told a seminar on China's foreign trade prospects in Guangzhou.
More similar words: undertaketake overundertakingovertcovertpovertyover thereoverturnover timeoverturemake overoverthrowextrovertall over the worldincontrovertibleover and overover and over againmake a mistakepertaintakecertainstaketake ontake outtakeofftake intake totake uptake offtake for
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