Catches, then passes

Usage examples of overtakes.

Dropping the flare gun, I gun the throttle with one hand, yank the wheel to the left with the other, trying to turn away from the boat before it overtakes me.

The interrogation continues until pain overtakes me and my words become slurred, then meaningless.

A flush of anger overtakes her face, just as it had mine, when I repeat what Derek said to my son.

Lassitude overtakes us and we lie for too long, half dozing, side by side.

My wounds no longer bother me, but hunger overtakes me and with it, exhaustion.

The recollection of the distant female's scent overtakes me and—no matter the rain, the wind, the tousled, frothing seas that batter me—I give in to the fantasies the remembrance brings.

But I have to admire his control, the Hobie leaping and bucking, slicing the tops off waves as it overtakes them.

Before another swell overtakes us, I bend over the side of the boat, grab her by her wrist and yank her out of the water.

Though it may be our part to find bitter end before the Gate of Mordor, if we do so, then you will come also to a last stand, either here or wherever the black tide overtakes you.

He overtakes window-shoppers, bent old men leaning on sticks and tiny children clinging to their mothers.

No one else has rescued them from the oblivion which usually overtakes all transitory stages of human development.

Is there a place on these downs where I can go to ground, if the daylight overtakes us while we are there?

It is possible, though not too probable, that I will die of natural causes before this slower defeat overtakes us.

It is a very odd feeling and it overtakes one after only a few days in the Soviet Union.