Đặt câu với từ "overtaken"

1. Chomping has actually overtaken champing …

2. This will tell them that we've been overtaken.

3. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken.

4. Once down in the snow he was overtaken by a heavy lethargy.

5. Might a nostalgia have overtaken him, a yearning for a sweeter time just past?

6. Sales are booming in Japan, which has overtaken Britain as the Mini's biggest market.

7. But Burton's radicalism was soon overtaken by the inevitable favours bought him by his talents.

8. Shortly after, hysteria's explanatory powers would wane, overtaken by Sigmund Freud's notion of penis envy.

9. Just occasionally, one could be forgiven for thinking that the dummy had overtaken the ventriloquist.

10. India has overtaken Hollywood by a long margin to become the world’s largest producer of films.

11. The operation was overtaken though by the sudden German invasion the following day on 8 April.

12. Greed for a high bride-price has overtaken some Christians and has led to tragic consequences.

13. Says the memorial: “Some were overtaken by the howling winds and mountainous seas of a catastrophic northeaster.

14. Benighted (adj.) 1570s, "overtaken by darkness," past-participle adjective from obsolete verb benight (q.v.)

15. Synonyms for Befallen include struck, stricken, hit, hitten, overtaken, visited, betid, betided, happened to and come upon

16. Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee.

17. Radar, radio, sonar, and satellite navigation have now overtaken even the lighthouse itself, and many have been decommissioned.

18. Definition of Benighted 1 : overtaken by darkness or night Benighted travellers … have seen his midnight candle glimmering.

19. Be careful not to be overtaken by the false reasoning, ‘Everybody else does it, so it’s OK.’

20. It was not a hesitant or infant Church that was overtaken by the apocalyptic disasters of the barbarian Invasions.

21. They were together for almost a quarter of a century—happy, content, and fulfilled until overtaken by mortality.

22. 25 It was not a hesitant or infant Church that was overtaken by the apocalyptic disasters of the barbarian Invasions.

23. The traditional industries of fishing, paper-making, shipbuilding, and textiles have been overtaken by the oil industry and Aberdeen's seaport.

24. In truth, however, humble photocopying has been overtaken by the wonders of the fax and personal computers complete with printers.

25. Will these revolutions be pushed through the transitions and democracy or be overtaken by the military or extremists of all kinds?

26. But as modern Automatics gained additional gears and relied less on a torque converter, they have now overtaken manuals in terms of fuel economy

27. The ship of the line was overtaken by the ironclad: powered by steam, protected by metal armor, and armed with guns firing high-explosive shells.

28. He says, "To be overtaken with awe of God is not to entertain a feeling but to share in a spirit that permeates all being."

29. Benighted (comparative more Benighted, superlative most Benighted) (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination

30. "Right now, we don't have figures for Japan's GDP in 200 but I think China may have already overtaken Japan last year, " Yao told China Daily in a telephonic interview yesterday.

31. The number of millionaires in Asia has overtaken North America for the first time in a sign of wealth shifting across the globe due to the economic downturn , according to a new report .

32. 14 And it came to pass that Giddianhi, who had stood and fought with boldness, was pursued as he fled; and being weary because of his much fighting he was overtaken and slain.

33. Significant quantities of cotton began to be used after about 1600, firstly in linen/cotton fustians, but by around 1750 pure cotton fabrics were being produced and cotton had overtaken wool in importance.

34. The original phrase is, indeed, Champing at the bit, but chomping at the bit emerged in America in the 1930s according to the Oxford English Dictionary and chomp has overtaken champ in common use

35. During the global economic crisis, the company was overtaken by the Silk and Decorative Fabric Weaving mill A.F. Haas & Co., which produced until 1970 and since then has been running a textile trading business, today named Haas Shopping.

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37. ‘The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants.’ ‘Now the Baconian conception of technology as instrumentum has been overtaken by ‘autonomous technology’ since technology has now become end itself rather than means as ends are subverted by means.’

38. d) A small craft approaching another small craft in the sector of its stern light (or lights), i.e. at over # o abaft of the beam, is overtaking and, whether motorized or under sail, may pass the small craft being overtaken, keeping clear of its course, as follows

39. Benighted: 1 adj overtaken by night or darkness “ Benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home” Synonyms: nighted unpunctual not punctual; after the appointed time adj lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture “this Benighted country” “ Benighted ages of barbarism and superstition” Synonyms: dark unenlightened not enlightened; ignorant

40. A Bearcoot will swoop down upon a full-grown deer and kill him in a few minutes; a deer running at full speed can be overtaken by a Bearcoot in a course of little more than a mile, when he has the advantage of fully a mile at the start.

41. In the channel- to port only; the small craft being overtaken shall facilitate rapid overtaking by reducing its speed (no more than two craft may be abeam at once); Outside the channel, when crossing it and on sections with cardinal buoys- on either side; Small craft and vessels under sail shall pass and overtake without exchanging visual signals