Massy ivy mantles its walls, climbs to its gables, overruns its roofs, peeps in at its tiny-paned casements; doves coo upon its ridges.
Curious little casements are under the eaves; larger windows look out from the gables and are aligned nearer the ground, many of them shaded by the dark ivy which clings to the old walls and overruns the roofs.
Oh, gifts with rain and sunshine sent The bounty overruns our due, The fulness shames our discontent.
So live the fathers in their sons, Their sturdy faith be ours, And ours the love that overruns Its rocky strength with flowers!
But amid his utterance a quick shudder overruns his limbs; his eyes are fixed in horror; so thickly hiss the snakes of the Fury, so vast her form expands.
So speaks she, and is silent, while pallor overrunsher face.
The great and valiant nation of the Comanche Indians, which is divided into three tribes, overruns in every direction the vast expanse of the Prairies: outside those green savannahs they would be unable to live.
The bitch, with a good fox before her, is decidedly more off-hand at her work; but she is less patient, and sometimes overruns the scent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overruns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
