Example sentences for: overrun

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

  • A sturdy caponier (a small fortified room with openings for rifles) was to act as a last defense if the battlements were 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.

  • Throughout Serbia, old and young, front-liners and mountain villagers, find themselves regularly overrun by new official vocabularies and new slang as the status quo of the country tilts and changes.

  • This left the country to be overrun by various barbarian tribes, especially the Vandals.

  • 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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