Sentences with 'overtook'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overtook and other words derived from it.
• « Selim set the stage for his son, Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520 - 1566) to preside over the golden age of Ottoman power in precisely this way: Suleiman overtook his brothers when Selim died and promptly had his brothers killed. »
• « The driver was crestfallen, smoking a cigarette. One by one, slowly, the other motorists overtook him. »