overran in English

verb
1
spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers.
the Mediterranean has been overrun by tourists
synonyms:invadestormoccupyswarm intosurge intoinundateoverwhelm
2
continue beyond or above (an expected or allowed time or cost).
he mustn't overrun his budget

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1. The talks overran their allotted time.

2. Rebel soldiers overran the embassy last night.

3. The news programme overran the allotted time.

4. His speech overran the time allotted.

5. The lecturer overran by ten minutes.

6. Mr Mellor claimed the builder overran his budget.

7. Soviet troops overran the nation in 19

8. Rehearsals, older Philharmonia players recall, never overran.

9. An army of ants overran our picnic.

10. It ( 指 the rabb it ) overran a whole continent.

11. 8 Rebel soldiers overran the embassy last night.

12. The final speaker overran by at least half an hour.

13. It was the time when the Japanese aggressors overran China.

14. Farther to the south, two Red armies overran Romania in August 19

15. Resurgent Fulham, home from Hendon, overran Carlisle 50-6 at Chiswick.

16. Swiftly they overran the island, driving their dark kinsfolk into the sea.

17. The Indians quickly overran the country, selectively engaging or bypassing heavily defended strongholds.

18. A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs.http://Sentencedict.com

19. But they were cut from the programme after it overran by 10 minutes.

20. A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs.

21. Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula.

22. Rommel launched an immediate counter-attack and the German armoured battlegroups overran the two forward battalions of 69th Brigade.

23. It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet.

24. (Psalm 146:3) In July of 1995, attacking forces simply pushed the UN forces aside and overran the town.

25. In a series of fierce engagements, Commonwealth forces gradually overran the Russian field fortifications, and the siege reached its final stages by late September.

26. By nightfall, the Japanese overran and nearly annihilated the platoon, killing 24 Marines with only a few wounded members of the platoon surviving.

27. Peacock prince overran holds the myna princess's hand saying:"my good younger sister, this gem feather robe this should be your, why don't you want?"

28. Vohra and Sharpe are exactly the kind of agents provocateurs that overran the LP in 1980, when unemployment among bomb-throwing anarchist communists and Soviet Brainwashees …

29. They met at the Battle of Nicopolis in eastern Anatolia, where Pharnaces II defeated the Roman army and overran much of Cappadocia, Pontus, and Bithynia.

30. But howsoever , said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

31. The eldest of four daughters born to Princess (later Queen) Juliana and Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Beatrix went into exile with her family when the Germans overran the Netherlands in World …

32. Anti-government protests last April turned violent , scaring off some potential visitors , and in 2008 , another group of protesters overran the main international airport and shut down flights for a week .

33. Synonyms & Antonyms of Butcherly having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others Genghis Khan and his Butcherly horde even massacred the livestock of the villages they overran

34. Israel joined a secret alliance with Great Britain and France and overran the Sinai Peninsula but was pressured to withdraw by the UN in return for guarantees of Israeli shipping rights in the Red Sea via the Straits of Tiran and the Canal.

35. The French eventually overran the Mexicans in subsequent battles, but the Mexican victory at Puebla against a much better equipped and larger French army provided a significant morale boost to the Mexican army and also helped slow the French army's advance towards Mexico City.

36. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front.

37. The tangle of rights and allegiances to various lords during the time of the old empire was swept aside when, beginning in the years 1792-1794, the Revolutionary French overran the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank and occupied them, eventually placing the region under a central administration in 1798.

38. ‘A Besuited man wept openly, scrubbing his eyes with crumpled tissue.’ ‘Surrounding him, a cohort of 18 other Besuited men and one woman.’ ‘Still, the service overran and we were forced to almost run out of the door, with not even time for the after-service coffee, or to properly say thank you to the Besuited gentleman on the door.’

39. Adolf Hitler on Russia and Bolshevism, an extract from his autobiography Mein Kampf, published in 1924: “Never forget that the rulers of present-day Russia are common blood-stained criminals; that they are the scum of humanity which, favoured by circumstances, overran a great state in a tragic hour, slaughtered out thousands of her leading intelligentsia in wild bloodlust, and now for almost