How to Use overtake in a Sentence

overtake

verb

• She overtook the other runners and went on to win the race.
• Seasickness can overtake passengers when the ship encounters a storm.
• Alex Palou overtakes Christian Lundgaard at the end of the first lap.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2023
• His friend skied down first and watched as the avalanche was triggered and overtook Burks.
  — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Alex Palou overtakes Christian Lundgaard for the lead on Lap 42.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2023
• In the race for the title of the planet with the most moons, Saturn may have overtaken Jupiter for the final time.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• When East-West follow, South unblocks his ace of spades, overtakes the jack of clubs with the ace and leads the queen of spades.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
• In fact, Glassdoor projects Gen Z will overtake boomers in the full-time workforce next year.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• Thanks in part to the surge in EV sales, China overtook Japan as the world’s top auto exporter in the first quarter of this year.
  — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 18 July 2023
• There’s still no sign that Haley will overtake Trump in the polls and seize the nomination on her own.
  — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• And according to some projections, its GDP per capita is even set to overtake Britain’s by the end of the decade.
  — Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
• They are overtaken by Jones, who, stirred from senescence, thunders down the avenue on a horse, with Nazis on his—and its—tail.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
• But in the end, he was overtaken by Mr. Xi, and became China’s premier — the leader of the cabinet — in 2013.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Shortly after the start, Verstappen overtook Leclerc, and the duel was on.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2023
• In a way, the idea that digital is overtaking print among readers has always been a bit overblown.
  — David Miller, Fortune, 25 May 2023
• According to the sheriff's office, Sloop made it to the bottom first, and watched as Burks came down, when an avalanche was triggered and overtook him.
  — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
• For the Rangers, particularly for the offense, that means finding a way out of the strikeout-laden funk that has overtaken them in the last week.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Luke Kennard finished with 19 points, including a pair of free throws in the closing minute as the Rockets tried to overtake Memphis down the stretch.
  — Clay Bailey, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
• Obsolescence overtook us both in the mid-nineties, more cruelly in my case than in hers.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• To McKee, the album has stood the test of time and fits into the early-2010s pop nostalgia that has overtaken much of the internet.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• And since Kaz is really struggling to choke it down, Tori starts to panic knowing that Kaycee and Troy could overtake them at any minute.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• Trailing 6-3 heading into the final quarter, the Seals scored five times but were unable to overtake their hosts.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
• While the top three spots are set heading into the last day of the tournament, there's still plenty of competitors eager to overtake them.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2023
• When the business of being creative is overtaken by the business of being a business, there’s beauty in the fact that what remains is the joy of art for art’s sake.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 22 June 2023
• Having passed Santa Ana in 2023, Irvine could be poised to overtake Anaheim as the most populous in the not-too-distant future.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• For years Parisians Right Bank and Left have insisted that their city is being overtaken by rodents.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
• The second penalty dropped him from third to fourth place, overtaken by Mercedes’ George Russell in the final podium place.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• But now, nearly 40 percent of Iraq has been overtaken by blowing desert sands that claim tens of thousands of acres of arable land every year.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
• Spaces made for napping—or at least curling up and resting for a bit—are overtaking stiff, formal rooms as a top trend this year.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2023
• At many junctures, the enveloping lows of the drums and other effects far overtook André’s flute (the mixing may need some refining as the tour goes on).
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024