overran

• “So it just kind of overran us and we were just trying to find shelter.”

  CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Firefighters Risk it All to Battle California Wildfires - August 6, 2000

• “During the war in Gaza, the Sri Lankan government forces overran the last stronghold of the Tamil Tigers -- a group considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government -- at the expense of dozens of civilians.”

  Numbers matter

• “They would have been like wheat under the thresher when the creatures overran the house.”

  Simon & Schuster: Crimson Wind

• “The airstrikes hit just east of the town of Zinjibar, near Yemen's south coast, which Islamist militants overran earlier this year.”

  USA Today: Airstrikes kill 40 pro-government Yemeni tribesmen

• “The rebels said they overran Bir al-Ghanam on Saturday with support from NATO airstrikes.”

  Voice of America: Libyan Rebels Hold Western Town Near Tripoli

• “Any negotiations would be complicated by the rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank, which Abbas controls, and in the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Islamic Hamas militants who overran the territory in June 2007.”

  The Huffington Post: Israel Settlement Freeze Ends, Construction Resumes

• “But that was before Bravo's Real Housewives franchise overran the airwaves like hair extensions from hell.”

  The Huffington Post: Bryan Safi: The Gay BFFs of The Real Housewives (VIDEO)

• “He overran the one space project for which he was the PI by $100M (according to his own charts shown at a meeting of Mars Community.)”

  MSL Problems Revisited - NASA Watch

• “They overran my orchard, rooted out my lawn, and rubbed mud holes into my garden.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

• “In October 1990, two months after the Iraqi army overran Kuwait, Khan had tried to interest Saddam Hussein in a package of nuclear equipment similar to the one he had sold to Iran three years earlier when Iraq and Iran were locked in a war.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fallout

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