Example sentences for: overrun

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

  • Even if editors at the Times really did consider Texas to be, as you put it, overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek--and let's be honest here, Evan, that's not an entirely inaccurate depiction--I'm still not sure many Texans would even notice.

  • Within 10 years, they had overrun most of Spain.

  • In short, the Reform Party is both run and overrun by people who make Ross Perot look sane and rational.

  • The 21 projects with the lowest definition averaged 16 percent cost overrun.

  • Faro has a greater wealth of cultural and historic monuments than any other Algarvian town, a picturesque old quarter, and best of all, tourists never overrun authentic Portuguese restaurants, cafés, and bars.


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