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Example sentences for: overrun

How can you use “overrun” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held.
Certainly Congress is in no danger of being overrun by Gucci-clad lobbyists working for the poor and the environment.
The 21 projects with the lowest definition averaged 16 percent cost overrun.
This left the country to be overrun by various barbarian tribes, especially the Vandals.
On the whole, the national press has a sneering stereotypical view of the state, which you'd think was overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek, but no one sneers with more relish than the Times . Maybe it dates back to the trouble Molly Ivins had as the paper's Denver bureau chief.