overrunning

Example Sentences

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Seve has let the detritus of life pile up around him — literally — with delivery packages and plastic-wrapped clothes overrunning his tiny Baltimore apartment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Mr. Ellis takes as a case study the overrunning and removal of the Creek Indians in Georgia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Or are we too far gone to prevent rats from overrunning our cities?

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

“I was on a couple hours ago with the Wildwood mayor, and he said we had a fantastic weekend, we happened to have this overrunning of, it sounds like, a bunch of teenagers.”

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2024

But a few were uninhabited and gloomy-looking with dandelions overrunning the yard and limp gutters hanging loose from the weight of soggy old leaves and broken tree branches.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos