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. »
« In the 16th century, Spain overtook Portugal as the dominant European power. »
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