overran

Example Sentences

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Everything changed, he said, when the RSF overran Al-Nahud last May.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Some 10 months into the Islamic revolution, thousands of Iranian students overran the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Over 36,000 Sudanese civilians have fled towns and villages in the Kordofan region east of Darfur, the United Nations said, just over a week after paramilitary forces overran the city of El-Fasher.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

Federal and local authorities began carrying out rescue missions as more rain overran households in the towns of Burnet and Liberty Hill, extending the damage well into Saturday.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025

Or consider the Moche, leaders of a military state that overran much of the northern coast, submerging the identities of its victims in its own.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann