How to Use overtake in a Sentence

overtake

verb

• She overtook the other runners and went on to win the race.
• Seasickness can overtake passengers when the ship encounters a storm.
• Alex Palou overtakes Christian Lundgaard at the end of the first lap.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2023
• His friend skied down first and watched as the avalanche was triggered and overtook Burks.
  — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
• Alex Palou overtakes Christian Lundgaard for the lead on Lap 42.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2023
• Farms are likely to overtake more of the world’s polar regions in the years to come.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2022
• In the race for the title of the planet with the most moons, Saturn may have overtaken Jupiter for the final time.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• If war costs overtake costs of peace Beliefs in the costs of war and the costs of peace also matter.
  — Andrew Blum, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2023
• When East-West follow, South unblocks his ace of spades, overtakes the jack of clubs with the ace and leads the queen of spades.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
• Mason is bidding to overtake Mitchell for the No. 2 role.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
• No one suggests that the oil and gas sector will overtake Big Tech.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• In fact, Glassdoor projects Gen Z will overtake boomers in the full-time workforce next year.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• The Patriots are among the four 7-8 teams trying to overtake the Dolphins.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 28 Dec. 2022
• Words stumble out in a rush, each eager to overtake the one before it.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• Thanks in part to the surge in EV sales, China overtook Japan as the world’s top auto exporter in the first quarter of this year.
  — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 18 July 2023
• The problem with Monaco is there is no room to expand the track to aid overtaking.
  — Ian Parkes, New York Times, 23 May 2024
• There’s still no sign that Haley will overtake Trump in the polls and seize the nomination on her own.
  — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• In the ’80s, Japan was widely predicted to overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2022
• And according to some projections, its GDP per capita is even set to overtake Britain’s by the end of the decade.
  — Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
• So we’ve been overtaken by real life, which is scary as well.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• The deepest of these sub-bass synth hits come across with subwoofer-like rumble but never overtake the balance of the mix.
  — PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
• The market overtook the laboratory, and the race was on.
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• That month, France overtook Britain for the first time to become home to Europe’s largest stock market by value.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023
• The French are also delighted to overtake Great Britain in the gold medal table, with nine in total.
  — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2024
• They are overtaken by Jones, who, stirred from senescence, thunders down the avenue on a horse, with Nazis on his—and its—tail.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
• But in the end, he was overtaken by Mr. Xi, and became China’s premier — the leader of the cabinet — in 2013.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Frank stands in the snow as the flashing blue-and-red police cars overtake the glow of colorful holiday lights.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2022
• Shortly after the start, Verstappen overtook Leclerc, and the duel was on.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2023
• That captures how thoroughly the salads have overtaken her life—and kitchen.
  — Angela Haupt, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
• Nvidia is quickly gaining on Apple and may soon overtake it as the world’s most valuable company.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024