Its length is the true period of the moon's revolution once around the earth, from the sun all the way round till it overtakes the sun again.
This calamity overtakes those who wish to grow suddenly rich from mines, and instead, they become very much poorer than before.
One by one, I overtakes the team strung all along between my camp an' Tramperos.
When I overtakes old Jerry I pours the leather into him speshul, an' the way him an' his pard Tom goes scatterin' for camp refreshes me a heap.
I will rest wherever night overtakes me, either in a cottage, on my horse, or on the ground.
And will have no one to thank but ourselves when ruin overtakes us.
But when a dreadful stalenessovertakes the world, it is ready to cry out, "More sauce!
When the schoolhouse overtakes him, there is a crisis in his affairs.
When he perceives a gazelle cropping a blade of grass, he overtakes her before she has time to swallow what she already holds in her mouth.
I surprise them with my sleek-coated courser that by its swiftness overtakes the wild beasts and never wearies of hunting the gazelle in all seasons and far from our home.
Each one picks out a bird, rides after it, overtakes it, and, either from behind or from the side, fetches it a terrible blow on the head with the cudgel already mentioned.
On our way we were overtaken by a messenger from Major Malcolm, who is advancing with a strong force, and depend upon it he will give the rebels a fearful drubbing if he overtakes them.
A overtakes the queen of clubs in order to continue the lead.
Z, therefore, overtakes the jack of spades with the ace, to make it possible for Y to have two entry cards.
B overtakes the jack of diamonds and continues with the suit.
The invisible Messenger was already near, which overtakes alike the busy and the idle, which arrests man in the midst of his pleasures or his occupations, and changes his countenance and sends him away.
For the usual fate of Chouan prisoners swiftly overtakes the surviving leaders of the Savenaye "band of brigands," as that doughty knot of loyalists was termed by their arch-enemy, Thureau.
But their appointed hour is already at hand and they will not escape if it overtakes them without repentance.
Papageno escapes with Pamina, but the negro overtakes him with his servants.
When the gnomes have disappeared, Conrad overtakes Anna, and she tells him all, asking his help against her mysterious bridegroom.
With the help of Pedrillo, who manages to intoxicate Osmin, they try to escape, but Osmin overtakes them and brings them back to the Pasha, who at once orders that they be brought before him.
Belated at other times, night overtakes them on the ice.
A temporary shelter where night overtakes them is a luxury not always enjoyed.
Venus thus overtakes and passes the earth once in five hundred and eighty-four days, or nearly two and a half of her own years, constituting what is called her synodic period of apparent revolution as seen from this globe.
Each age sees some advance, though death overtakes all its creatures.
Where else in the Scriptures is there a more striking picture of the fate that overtakes those who yield to sin?
As the stream bed comes nearer the sea level its rate of descent is diminished, and so the outlying country gradually overtakes it.
Late in the afternoon, even before the sun has sunk, the radiation of heat from the earth, which has been going on all the while, but has been less considerable than the incurrent of temperature, in a way overtakes that influx.
When Natasha and Vaska are about to start out on the road to a new life, fate overtakes them.
Rigid in his false notions and superstitions, wrought up with distress, he is about to carry out his threat, when a stroke of apoplexy overtakes him.
When old age overtakes the giant redwoods, they exhibit the first symptoms of weakened vitality by dying at the top.
When death overtakes it, the cones open and scatter the seeds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overtakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
