The Austrians overran Bavaria, and the Emperor Charles was obliged to lay down his arms and ask for peace.
At the same time the French king launched a great army over his northern frontier, overran the Spanish Netherlands, and penetrated far into Holland.
Then, pushing on eastwards, he landed at Alexandria, and in a few weeks overran the whole of Egypt, though France had never declared war on the Sultan of Turkey, the ruler of that land.
They took Savannah and Charleston, and overran all Georgia and South Carolina.
The prince-regent was forced to fly by sea, and the French overran the whole of his kingdom.
When the Turks failed to put down the rising, in spite of all their massacres, the Sultan called in the aid of his vassal Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt, who landed his well-trained army in the Peloponnesus and overran half the peninsula.
He overranthe whole electorate and annihilated the Saxon army in a fortnight.
He overran the Lowlands, and then pushed forward into the hills of the Highlands.
Meanwhile Manchester and the Scots overran all the North, and the land beyond Humber was wholly lost to the king.
Aquitaine save Bordeaux and Bayonne, and overran the duchy of Brittany, the sole ally of England on the continent.
He overran the land beyond the Firth of Forth, and might perchance have ended by conquering the whole island, but he died of disease at York early in 211.
The enemy at once overran Maine, and began to infest the borders of Normandy.
This force took Gwalior, Scindiah's capital, and overran the province of Gujarat.
Accordingly his general, Aulus Plautius, crossed the Channel, and overran Kent and the neighbouring districts in a few weeks.
In two campaigns that marvellous general overran the Austrian and Sardinian dominions in the valley of the Po, and then pushing on, crossed the Alps and invaded Austria from the south.
The Welsh and Mercians overran Northumbria after slaying its king, and Cadwallon took York and burnt it.
Philip dispatched the notorious Duke of Alva to take vengeance on the turbulent heretics, and overran the Netherlands with his butcheries.
At best we are in Bengal on sufferance; we are a very small community--only a hundred or two Europeans in Calcutta: and since the Marathas overran the country some years ago we have felt as though sitting on the brink of a volcano.
There were swarms of cockroaches and rats on board; the cockroaches huge beasts, three times the size of those that overran the kitchen at home; the rats seeming as large as the rabbits he had been wont to shoot on the farm.
The Philistines overran the country, and chased Saul even to the mountain fastnesses of Gilboa, where the miserable man, deserted by God, tried to learn his fate through evil spirits, and only met the certainty of his doom.
Shishak was a great conqueror, and in nine years overran all Asia, as far as the river Ganges.
Grecian art and science, literature and even language overran the old Iranic reign and extended eastwards throughout northern India.
Here and in many other places we also see the origin of that "picaresque" literature which arose in Spain and overran Europe; and which begat Le Moyen de Parvenir.
The policy of our Government saved us from falling into a trap that might have held us fast while Germany overran the whole of Europe and made ready to come a-plundering here at her own time and convenience.
After this junction of their forces, they overran the territory of the Boians, spreading devastation as far as the city of Felsina.
These two battalions overran their objectives and curled round the end of Bouleaux Wood.
Owing to the smoke the two left companies lost direction, the flank company being drawn off in the direction of Nameless Farm, and the inner company failed to recognise its position and overran its objective.
But though he soon overran a large part of this island, the Greeks in Sicily liked his iron rule no better than the Greeks of Tarentum had done.
His progress through Asia was a parade; it was no wonder that the Romans were dazzled by the news of the way in which he overran kingdoms and conquered vast territories of enormous wealth.
Entering Pontus in the late autumn, heoverran the rich country without meeting with any serious opposition; Mithridates' armies had been scattered at Cyzicus; he had not yet collected fresh ones.
Persians overran Armenia, and Meroujah, their leader, burned all the books he could find in the country, proscribed the study of the Greek language, and enacted penalties against any who should speak it or translate from it.
Again, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Louis XIV overran the Palatinate and thousands of Germans fled to England, the English government encouraged their migration to America.
The Magyars are the Asiactic conquerors who overran Europe ten centuries ago, and being repulsed by the Teutons to the west established themselves on the Slavs in the valley and plains of the Danube.
During that time Timur overran the greater part of Asia Minor, capturing Nicaea and Brusa and many other strongholds from the Ottomans, and Smyrna from the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
They captured the city of Perekop, and then overran the whole of the Crimea, devastating it and massacring its inhabitants by thousands.
An army of Tartars from the Crimea overran Poland in 1688 and defeated a Polish army on the Sereth.
It overran the whole island and invested Candia, its chief fortress and capital.
Meanwhile the Khan of the Crimea, at the head of a horde of irregular horsemen, overran Moravia, committing the most frightful devastation and carrying off eighty thousand Christians as captives for sale as slaves.
Romanzoff, in command of the Russian army, overran the whole of Moldavia.
The Swedish troops, meeting with no resistance, quickly overran this duchy, and made themselves masters of all its strong places, except Rensburg and Gluckstadt.
But the Imperialists, under the command of Gallas, entered that duchy at Ribses, and overran it by their superior strength.
Bavaria now lay open and defenceless before him; the French and Swedes quickly overran it; and the soldiery indemnified themselves for all dangers by frightful outrages, robberies, and extortions.
But they were powerless against the conquering arms of Philip, who completely overran and devastated the peninsula, taking thirty-two cities, and selling the people for slaves.
Still, a Syrian army overran the country, and John Hyrcanus, shut up in Jerusalem, was reduced to great extremities.
In every country which he overran he spared neither age nor sex; it was one indiscriminate slaughter.
Well, it was Chaka who overran that country I am now speaking of, and drove out all the tribes who occupied it, as well as a large portion of the Bechuana tribes who inhabited lands more to the northward.
The French Revolutionary armies overran Switzerland, as they did all the small neighbouring states, and during Napoleon's career she had to submit to his rule, and furnish her contingent to his armies.
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.
They infested the ships, they overran the wharves, they traversed the sewers.
Then a lot of barefooted children, and women under gay shawls, overran the field gathering wood and making ready for night.
In the meantime, Tyrone had thought proper to break the trace, "and joining with O'Donnel and others, overran almost the whole kingdom.
They overran Syria and broke forever the power of the Hittites along the eastern Mediterranean.
In a series of engagements, in which he fought against great odds and against armies equipped far better than his own, he repelled the Arameans, who overran his territory.
The active and ruthless Aramean king, Hazael, overran Northern Israel, destroying most of its warriors and extracting heavy tribute.
The occasion of this transfer was probably the invasion of Palestine by Shishak, king of Egypt, whooverran and plundered the west-Jordan territory.
Turning towards the Southern states, the British commander now dispatched an expedition which took Savannah and overran the State of Georgia.
Beppo, overran all Europe during that same period--the latter half of the last century.
He overran the Pintados Islands and did a great deal of damage there.
In 330 he overran Susa and took that city, Persepolis, and Pasargada, which contained the tomb of Cyrus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overran" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
