11 example sentences using overrun.
Overrun used in a sentence
Overrun in a sentence as a noun
We were overrun in days, not many of us are left.
If Kickstarter doesn't stop this sort of thing, it will soon be overrun with this sort of thing.
What happens when we're overrun by lizards?Skinner: No problem.
Treating when it's appropriate is better than letting the bees get sick or overrun by parasites.
In this area, if you just let some land go that started as grassland, in the first couple of years it will be mostly weeds, then for the next several years it will become overrun by shrubs, such as [1].
Look I can understand the "oh it's so convenient that you can now pay to promote your posts" but the "turning down the volume" on the Newsfeed was done because our Newsfeeds were getting overrun.
Overrun in a sentence as a verb
To be honest, my only frustration with them of late has been the fact that my streaming queue is overrun with "Bob the Builder" & "Caillou" when I'm actually looking for something to watch.
His very modest helpings of competence and ethical backbone were quickly overrun, demoted in priority to the same level as getting enough niacin in his diet.
If the project works out, and it's going swimmingly so far, Mozilla will try to apply it to writing a next-generation browser, without the constant danger of buffer overrun exploits and threading bugs that comes with C++.
It's somewhat encouraging to read the comments here and note that for a change they are not already overrun by aggressive apologists for the continuing misogyny in software development.
Perform a study, put out RFQs, get bids, select the best bidder, have them build the system, manage them through the cost overrun, opps, 3 months before deployment Congress mandates that that core-memory system be retired, and oh, how will this work in the 168 other countries?Got that sorted.
Overrun definitions
too much production or more than expected
See also: overproduction
invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
See also: infest
occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
flow or run over (a limit or brim)
See also: overflow
seize the position of and defeat; "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"
run beyond or past; "The plane overran the runway"