Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: overtaken
IPA transcription: ['oʊvɚt,eɪkən]
Pronunciations of overtaken
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Usage examples
  • Like a shadow never to be overtaken
  • The doom which Malefico had intended for another had overtaken him.
  • Among the criminals so justly overtaken by the divine vengeance Hercules noticed Salmoneus, whom he had formerly met upon earth.
  • "We go through the village; The clouds go in the sky; We go faster, Faster go the clouds; They have overtaken us, And wetted the corn and the vine."
  • Population in Christendom has increased more rapidly than ever before in the history of the world, but it has not overtaken the progress in resources.
  • Overtaken by the megrims, the philosopher may seek relief in soliloquy; my lady find solace in tears; the flaccid Easterner scold at the millinery bills of his women folk.
  • And they, trusting in the calm, mightily drove the ship forward; and as she sped through the salt sea, not even the storm-footed steeds of Poseidon would have overtaken her.
  • Andy gave one look at the white bird-like apparatus that had flown up beside him so noiselessly, and, being too frightened to recognize Tom's voice, must have thought that he had been overtaken by some supernatural visitor.
  • I followed the llama up the beach, and was overtaken by Montgomery, who asked me not to enter the stone enclosure. I noticed then that the puma in its cage and the pile of packages had been placed outside the entrance to this quadrangle.
  • The moon shone on the pasture land about Carentan, but he had noticed great masses of white cloud that were about to scatter showers of snow over the country, and doubtless the fear of being overtaken by a storm had quickened his pace in spite of his weariness.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Parallel computing, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Facebook, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Compact Cassette, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hurricane Grace, License CC BY-SA 4.0