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Sentence Examples In December 1998 the alliance began an offensive to retake Freetown and in January overran most of the city. While barbarian invaders overran the Western empire, the Byzantine emperors always hoped to defeat them and reunite the empire. In the late ninth century, Slavs and Magyars advanced westward along the Danube River valley and overran the area. It moves at the rate of 800 ft to 1000 ft a year and during the 18th century overran cultivated fields and threatened to engulf communities. Other times they're forced out, as the ancient Etruscan language was when Latin speakers overran the Italian peninsula. They overran the country in the 16th century, nearly obliterating the Amharic kingdom of the western highlands. The goldfields rebellion did not last very long and government forces quickly overran the Eureka stockade. Downing Street postponed the appointment from Monday following a delay in the Prime Minister's schedule after talks in Northern Ireland overran. After that we counter-attacked, overran their positions on the national highway and occupied the municipality. When 90 kids overran the tiny space his first month in business, he knew he was on to something. My father was particularly proud of an occasion when he overran by several minutes and his audience stayed. Toward the end of the first day of the battle, the Rebels overran the Federal lines and were on the verge of victory. The seals overran the sole occupant of the station in 1971, forcing him into the ocean with headbutts and angry braying. The enemy quickly overran most of the South Vietnamese position, but not even a furious 5-hour assault could dislodge the Americans. Alan Quinlan overran the ball but Dowling was there to pounce on the loose ball and claim the try. This morning we had an extraordinary meeting of the Conference of Presidents which slightly overran. Most of the violence took place in the capital, Quito, and peaked when the mutineers overran the National Assembly at midday. Throwing grenades and spraying the area with burp gun fire, the North Koreans quickly overran the position. However, as the Austrians retook Bohemia, a French army overran most of Bavaria, where the Elector of Bavaria led another army that joined forces with the French. After a cagey start Mihael Kovacevic broke into the Caley box but he overran the ball before he could cut it back into a dangerous position. Show More Sentences Then, before dawn on 29 May, they launched one of the biggest banzai charges of the war which overran two command posts and a medical station before being halted. Gallic tribes joined the movement, and the insurgents boldly overran all but two of the legionary camps along the Rhine. In Iraq they overran the city of Mosul and in nearby Sinjar they dealt the Iraqi Kurds a humiliating defeat. What would we feel like if some country overran part of Canada on its way to another war? The marks observed on the north rail indicate that two pairs of wheels from one truck overran the running surface and fell outside the rail. The aircraft overran the end of the runway and crashed into an unprepared area within the airport property. During the last overhaul, it was determined that the actuator overran the retract switch. After landing long, the aircraft overran the end of the runway and came to rest in a ravine just outside the airport perimeter. Several factors contributed to increasing the landing roll to the point where the aircraft overran the relocated runway end. In the retract direction, the actuator overran the normal stop, retracting beyond the normal limit. The Canadian Forces supply system upgrade project overran by hundreds of millions of dollars, but who answered for that? After landing on runway 06 in Moncton, the aircraft overran the end of the runway by 154 feet. The aircraft overran the runway and came to rest about 340 feet beyond the end of the runway, 20 feet from the airport boundary fence. Based on these numbers, and considering that the aircraft overran the runway by only 340 feet, the aircraft braking action was appreciable. Even though the German troops overran France and actually occupied our Vimy site, little or no damage was incurred to the monument. Al-Qaeda overran Lahij on August 11 unchallenged, bombed the buildings specified in the memos, then left. The Persian king Cyrus the Great overran the Medes in the mid 6th century bc, although they remained ruling partners in the Achaemenid empire he set up. He was once commissioned to write a history of West Indies cricket, but got so immersed in the research that he overran the wordage by several thousand. Indeed, the separatists boasted at the end of June of capturing a Buk system when they overran a Ukrainian base. An American Airlines jet overran a runway in Jamaica on Tuesday night, injuring 91 people on board. Show More Sentences The finance minister insisted it was a myth that major projects such as the building of Dublin's port tunnel habitually overran to the cost of several hundred million euros. She enjoyed her visit so much it overran by more than 20 minutes. Another more modest failure involved Malaysia, which tried to increase its country equity through an advertising campaign at a time when terrorist activities overran any positive image shifting goals. The aircraft hydroplaned and overran the runway, probably as a result of the anti-skid brake system being selected off and maximum brakes being applied. In Richard's absence, Philip II overran large portions of Normandy and John acquired control of Richard's English lands. They both overran much of Henry's remaining continental lands, further eroding the Angevins' power on the continent. Bristol was occupied by Royalist military, after they overran Royal Fort, the last Parliamentarian stronghold in the city. Making contact with local rebels who were hostile to the Sicilian crown, Greek forces quickly overran the coastlands and began striking inland. During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, invasions by the neighboring Japanese and Qing Chinese nearly overran the Korean peninsula. Mar's proclamation brought in an alliance of clans and northern Lowlanders, and they quickly overran many parts of the Highlands. This left the armies on the Pyrenees free to march east and reinforce the armies on the Alps, and the combined army overran Piedmont. The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home. On the left bank the Germans overran the Bois d'Avocourt on March 20 as a prelude to an assault on the French strongpoint at Hill 304, but that attack failed to develop. In every land which the totalitarians overran, it was the intellectual who was picked out first to face the firing squad-teacher, priest, professor. When the Croats attacked in January 1993, the UN did not defend the Serbs, and because they'd disarmed them, the Croats overran the Serbs and the UN watched them go by. Consequently, the aircraft overran the runway. The aircraft overran the runway, ran over a lighting bar standard damaging a main wheel tire, travelled down a gentle slope, and stopped at a large drainage ditch running perpendicular to the runway. The Toraja are believed to be descendants of speakers of Austronesian languages who overran Celebes long ago and absorbed or exterminated the aboriginal population. Realizing that war was imminent, Prussia preemptively struck Saxony and quickly overran it. However, Edward's forces overran the country after defeating Bruce's small army at the Battle of Methven. Show More Sentences The Franks were a Germanic tribe that overran Roman Gaul at the end of the Roman Empire. Calicut mobs overran the Portuguese factory, killing every Portuguese they could get their hands on. In 1843, an Argentine army overran Uruguay on Oribe's behalf, but failed to take the capital. Led by the Hun military leader Toramana, they overran the northern region of Pakistan and North India. When the forces of King Henry III overran the supporters of Simon de Montfort, the Second Barons' War broke out. Bolstered by ransoms paid for kidnapped Europeans, they have weapons captured from Malian bases they overran in the north or smuggled from Libya after Muammar Qaddafi fell. Cornwallis ordered the Highlanders and Fusiliers forward in a limited pursuit and these units overran all four guns that the retreating Americans could not bring off. But the tight and rigid timetable for Doha was designed to avoid a repetition of the Uruguay round, which overran by three years and still involved eleventh-hour horse-trading. In 1222, Yaroslav, finally enthroned in Novgorod, overran all of Estonia and besieged its capital Kolyvan. Taking advantage of Roman military disarray, a vast number of barbarian peoples overran much of the empire. Thousands of passengers were left unable to travel after engineering work overran, leaving one major London rail station closed for a day and another temporarily closed. The transport secretary said the problems at King's Cross had arisen when work overran in a scheme to modernise points and overhead wiring, replacing 1km of track, and involved 14 engineering trains. I know as a German that even we, who overran almost all our neighbours in wartime, regained the esteem and respect of all by not repressing these aspects of our history or treating them as merely relative. In July and August 1998, the Taliban overran many northern provinces, as well as the cities of Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan, where the government had relocated. The aircraft initially touched down with about 3,500 feet of runway remaining and overran the runway end by 300 feet before coming to a full stop. That was fine when the Soviet Union was rattling its sabre and the Pentagon did not seem too bothered that weapons programmes usually overran their budgets. Bonaparte overran the holding force at the Battle of Rovereto. Huns attacked in Thrace, overran Armenia, and pillaged Cappadocia. The Sur Empire overran Bengal in 1532 and built the Grand Trunk Road. The major war in continental Europe that the British had hoped to avoid exploded in August 1756 when Frederick the Great attacked and overran the Austrian ally Saxony. Show More Sentences In the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire overran Byzantine lands, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, which historians mark as the end of the Middle Ages. The Cimmerians overran Phrygia and the Scythians threatened to do the same to Urartu and Lydia, before both were finally checked by the Assyrians. With doubtful patriotism he left the Danes for a while unpursued, attacked Meath, overran and wasted Connaught, and returning suddenly burnt the royal stronghold of Tara. Examples from Classical Literature They infested the ships, they overran the wharves, they traversed the sewers. In 103 they marched back through Gaul, which they overran as far as the Seine, where the Belgae made a stout resistance. Louis, after the capture of Maastricht led his army southwards into Lorraine and overran the electorate of Trier. At the end of the eighteenth century the Nepalese invaded and overran the country. The benefit overran the merit the first day, and has overrun the merit ever since. The Albertine and Austrian troops soon overran the defenceless land. Last time they overran this country they burned the Alexandrian library. Romanzoff, in command of the Russian army, overran the whole of Moldavia. Realizing the inexpediency of discussing the matter, I went forward myself, overran the line, and let the anchor go. The Boxers, practising their mystic rites, overran the district. In Greece it was first the rude Hellenes who overran the Pelasgians. The English took advantage of these disputes, and overran the land. They advanced against Ahaz, and overran his helpless country. That divine pity which only a woman can feel filled and overran her heart. Then crossing the Adda, they overran the country as far as Milan. In the second part he goes on to tell us of how the Bruces carried war into Ireland, of how they overran Northumberland, and of how at length true peace was made. Above the black cloth that covered the coffin rose the green sprays of a jessamine that grew beside the doorway, and a twisted vine shoot, already in leaf, overran the lintel. Find more words! 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