Example sentences for: overrun

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

  • 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.

  • And they quarrel over yesterday's issues while being overrun by tomorrow's.

  • One of the country’s new private markets has overrun Havana’s small Chinatown, at Calles Zanja and Rayo.

  • Joined by Iranian kings known as Pahlavas, the Greeks were overrun in the first century b.c. by bands of Scythian nomads known as the Shakas.

  • As they were overrun and absorbed by the Akkadians by 1900 BC, even that might be viewed as a bootless economy.


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