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

It caused significant delays - the couple's first trial overran by about three months, while the second overran by nearly two months.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond