Use "overtaking" in a sentence

1. When he is unsuccessful with overtaking this woman, he then goes after the rest of her offspring – those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus

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2. She moaned and thrust herself upward to meet him, her passion overtaking her

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3. I was about ten years old and recollect an Army Sergeant-Major grabbing me by the arm whilst overtaking me to make sure I stayed far enough away for I truly wanted to collect the hand grenade as a trophy

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4. “But you died when I was seven,” she whispered, anger overtaking her

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5. Indeed only after a little more than a hundred steps Hilderich felt cramps and stiffness overtaking his aching body, especially the legs where he put much of his strength to propel himself upwards on the steps that seemed fit only for giants

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6. Hilderich repeated his question, this time shouting, demanding, fury overtaking him despite the parts of his mind that warned him of teetering on a precipice of unfathomable depth, every step reeking with deadly danger:

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7. these inhospitable, but completely natural, reactions about fertility from overtaking your mind and

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8. Yaw: zigzag motion of a vessel carried off its heading by strong, overtaking seas

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9. Miles scrambled to his feet and charged her way, almost overtaking her, but the door closed before he could snatch her

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10. By the end, she can hardly speak or eat, the swelling overtaking the petite features of the woman he loves beyond all things

11. A shadow was overtaking them

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12. He stared at the house for several minutes from the shelter of a hedge, panic rising in his chest and throat until he could bear it no longer and cycled away, tailbone tickling as if the bats of hell were overtaking him

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13. competitors, we can think of overtaking

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14. Barred from the Shalizah road, however, he had turned to the forbidden route, until news that Conan had not yet reached Afghulistan with his captive had caused him to turn southward and push on recklessly in the hope of overtaking the Cimmerian in the hills

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15. When the guards started back to Jerusalem with Jesus, John Mark attempted to steal out of the shed in order to catch up with the fleeing apostles and disciples; but just as he emerged, one of the last of the returning soldiers who had pursued the fleeing disciples was passing near and, seeing this young man in his linen coat, gave chase, almost overtaking him

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16. He urged on the distressed stallion, for he saw that he was overtaking his prey, yard by yard

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17. I ran down the corridor, overtaking the other passengers, and jumped onto the waiting bus that was taking us to the plane

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18. With each step Sam felt stronger, more positive about overtaking the fugitives

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19. Afraid of the mental illness which was overtaking me with the speed of this insane

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20. Overtaking the vehicles travelling along the road Grailem runs as fast as he can

21. secrecy overtaking the computer industry-a wave first noticed

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22. Insane hope overtaking her, Tammy started running along the sandy beach, waving her arms and screaming

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23. � She had to close her eyes and concentrate in order to prevent panic from overtaking her

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24. Ben was in the lead, and Dahms quickly passed Sam, but Gaal was steadily overtaking her

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25. He was now clearly overtaking the enemy aircraft, ignoring for the moment the pursuing P-61s, who were being outraced by his Ju 88G

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26. coming sometime without warning- always with an overtaking

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27. With the bitterness of defeat overtaking him, the captain had a last look at his men, dead or dying across the taxiway, then raised his right hand in a flash to grab one of his hand grenades

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28. There was no traffic except for the occasional TIR that would announce its presence with a heart-stopping blast of its double air horns before overtaking us and speeding on out of sight

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29. In the mountains I’ve been forced off the road, less than a foot away from the cliff's edge, by buses that were overtaking each other on the bend

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30. The prosecutor stalked angrily around her table, oblivious to the panic overtaking the room

31. I heard a voice calling through the arcade: “They’re here! Overtaking the bridge

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32. are incapable of overtaking It

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33. motorcycles and trucks were everywhere, overtaking,

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34. diversification and overtaking pigs in numbers of species

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35. alcohol really such an overtaking substance? She wondered fearfully

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36. keep her emotions from overtaking her

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37. from overtaking her, she feared that her determination to fulfill Rose’s last wish was quickly

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38. Miss Avery begins to back away, due to the shock overtaking her

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39. him made up for lost time and were in the process of overtaking him

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40. c) No overtaking is permitted in the vicinity of road dividers

41. The wreckage stood as a huge monument to failures of the past, rusted metal and green vegetation overtaking the pathetic, colossal structure

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42. Fred was driving pretty hard and competently, changing gears before tight curves and accelerating smoothly out of them, overtaking slow- moving vehicles with quick bursts of power, all this while comfortably leaning back in his seat, his shoulders relaxed, his big, gnarled hands holding onto the wheel with calm firmness, his eyes professionally scanning the road ahead

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43. You’re driving fast, and overtaking on a corner at high speed is risky

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44. she didn't realize what was overtaking her

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45. So in this story also we see that lust overtaking love to the point of Amnon getting frustrated and ill

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46. the phone, on the PC, in front of the TV and radio, overtaking, adventuring, and endlessly

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47. fall upon’ as in a giant warrior overtaking you with

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48. against the sinking feeling that was overtaking her

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49. I snapped straight up, scientific curiosity overtaking the need for clean clothes

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50. His eyes grew heavy and as much as he fought the weariness that was quickly overtaking him he was soon fast asleep

51. He had a strong idea that the coffin he had seen was running after him; and, pictured as hopping on behind him, bolt upright, upon its narrow end, always on the point of overtaking him and hopping on at his side--perhaps taking his arm--it was a pursuer to shun

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52. "`We have been to your residence,' said the first, ànd not being so fortunate as to find you there, and being informed that you were probably walking in this direction, we followed, in the hope of overtaking you

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53. But what could be done now? There was a bare possibility of overtaking them if pursued instantly

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54. Vampa measured the distance; the man was at least two hundred paces in advance of him, and there was not a chance of overtaking him

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55. I had again left my boat at the wharf below Bridge; the time was an hour earlier in the afternoon; and, undecided where to dine, I had strolled up into Cheapside, and was strolling along it, surely the most unsettled person in all the busy concourse, when a large hand was laid upon my shoulder by some one overtaking me

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56. The gloomy shadows enshrouding the streets, concealing for the time their grey and mournful air of poverty and hidden suffering, and the black masses of cloud gathering so menacingly in the tempestuous sky, seemed typical of the Nemesis which was overtaking the Capitalist System

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57. The bombs were overtaking them, making a sound that one man likened to the footfalls of a giant: Boom … boom … BOOM … BOOM! At last, Louie and Phil spotted a native hut built on flood stilts

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58. Cole this adventure, she very sensibly observed to me, that "there was no doubt of the due vengeance one time or other overtaking these miscreants, however they might escape for the present; and that, had I been the temporal instrument of it, I should have been put to a great deal more trouble and confusion than I imagined; that,

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59. Vronsky had hardly formed the thought that he could perhaps pass on the outer side, when Frou-Frou shifted her pace and began overtaking him on the other side

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60. At the moment, Thunderer was ghosting through the water at less than one knot, with barely a sigh of water around her stem, and several of her consorts were slowly but steadily overtaking her

61. The working of the usual public institutions presented itself to him most distinctly as a series of calamities overtaking private individuals and flowing logically from each other through hate, revenge, folly, and rapacity, as though they had been part of a divine dispensation

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62. “The happiest time in any man’s life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it

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63. He sprinted toward the doctor, overtaking him before he reached his SUV

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64. O’Neil insisted that it is the leading index that is always telling you what is going on in the market, and at the time the NASDAQ was in the process of overtaking the Dow, as Figures 9

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65. He looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and sometimes four abreast

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66. Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped the third division and convinced himself that there really were no sharpshooters in front of our columns

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67. Alpatych kept meeting and overtaking baggage trains and troops on the road

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68. heard mingling with and overtaking one another

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69. The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase

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70. "Well, you are a boy," said the madcap, overtaking me in the next room and affectionately taking me by both hands, "why, you should have simply not returned the kerchief if you wanted so much to have it

71. Alpátych kept meeting and overtaking baggage trains and troops on the road

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72. The first shots had not yet ceased to reverberate before others rang out and yet more were heard mingling with and overtaking one another

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