How to use in-sentence of “overtaken”:
+ Conifers were eventually overtaken by the flowering plants, which first appeared in the Cretaceous.
+ In thousands of cases the crews were overtaken by captured slaves, some of them warriors.
+ In recent years, the paper’s circulation has also been overtaken by that of the “Daily Mail”.
+ Then, it was overtaken by “faster” games such as nine-ball.
+ The London Eye was overtaken in height by the Star of Nanchang, which is 160 meters high.
+ Dennis feels overtaken by those he outstripped at high school while Phil re-encounters an ex-girlfriend who is Tony’s sister he left behind.
+ After leading in the race at first for the Republican nomination, he was overtaken in the polls by Marco Rubio, and in April 2010, Crist left the Republican Party and ran as an Independent Independent.
Example sentences of “overtaken”:
+ By July 1990, Hawke had overtaken Malcolm Fraser as the second longest-serving Australian Prime Minister but on 21 December 2004 the record was overtaken by John Howard, making Hawke the third longest serving Prime Minister.
+ It stayed on the top for one week before it was overtaken by the Sugababes’ cover of “Freak Like Me”.
+ To the north the “goz” is overtaken by the desert sands of the Sahara.
+ In the early 1960s the Stratocruiser was overtaken by Jet aircraftjet planes like the de Havilland Comet, Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8.
+ Voyagers would probably arrive without being overtaken by later voyagers by waiting a time before leaving.
+ This final change was overtaken by the decision in June 1987 by Andy Allen, Central’s director of programmes, to axe the series.
+ Cassius was overtaken by Caesar en route, and was forced to surrender unconditionally.
+ While this work remains the most comprehensive attempt to review the death of Tina Watson, current events since publication have largely overtaken the Simpson/Cooke account of the fatality.
+ After the end of the US campaign in the Vietnam War, Saigon was overtaken by the North Vietnamese army on 30 April 1975 and renamed after Hồ Chí Minh.
+ It held this position until 1997 when it was overtaken by Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997”, released in tribute to Princess Diana following her death Michael also attended Diana’s funeral with Elton John.
+ Singapore currently has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia, having overtaken Indonesia on 19 April.
+ Futurism was, like science fiction, in part overtaken by ‘the future’.
+ By July 1990, Hawke had overtaken Malcolm Fraser as the second longest-serving Australian Prime Minister but on 21 December 2004 the record was overtaken by John Howard, making Hawke the third longest serving Prime Minister.
+ It stayed on the top for one week before it was overtaken by the Sugababes' cover of "Freak Like Me".