Examples of 'were overrun' in a sentence
Meaning of "were overrun"
means that a place or situation has been overwhelmed or overtaken by a large and uncontrollable number of people, things, or events
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were overrun
They were overrun and taken captive so easily.
A few years ago we were overrun with rats.
Our intelligence indicates the russians were overrun.
The hospitals were overrun weeks ago.
I knew it was only a matter of time before we were overrun.
Your premises were overrun by a bunch of agitators.
The heavy infantry guards were overrun.
You were overrun by the creatures.
But after they were overrun.
We were overrun within hours.
German forces in the sector were overrun with heavy losses.
We were overrun with work.
The camps were overrun.
Hospitals were overrun with people willing to donate blood to the victims.
The army blockades were overrun.
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The hotels were overrun by land seekers.
The major Greek defense positions were overrun.
Entire cities were overrun in a matter of days.
Got a distress call that civilians are Police were overrun.
And they were overrun.
I think Lord Carrington was across the bridge before we were overrun.
The buildings were overrun with crime and fell into disrepair.
Bordeaux and other southern French cities were overrun by desperate refugees.
Places like this were overrun by people trying to get out of the cities.
That if Caddock were overrun.
National parks were overrun with people looking to exploit minerals and resources.
The British troops in Artilleriemulde were overrun and captured or killed.
We were overrun.
The Vilnius and the Suvalkai regions were overrun.
Trains were overrun.
Before we made cincinnati, we were overrun.
Hundreds of tunnelsturnedbunkers were overrun making the highway safe for civilian travel.
Attacks on strategic hamlets were launched almost every day, and hundreds were overrun.
Police were overrun.
Casualties had been very heavy, many taken PoW when their positions were overrun.
The prison cells were overrun with insects and rats and there was no toilet.
I could have kept fighting, but we were overrun and outnumbered.
We were overrun by Chinese almost.
Many were lost intact simply because they were overrun before their crews could move them.
Johnston 's first volley killed several guerrillas, but then his men were overrun.
Pucon and Villarrica were overrun by a toxic cloud that made the air breathable.
At times during testing, our team anglers were overrun with carp.
Eventually the Byzantines were overrun and Romanus Diogenes was taken prisoner.
Aborigines once made up the majority of the population, but they were overrun by settlers.
British troops at Wormhoudt were overrun by advancing German forces.
In the early days, we suffered terrible losses because the caves were overrun with dragons.
Srebrenica and Zepa were overrun by Bosnian Serb forces.
They originally had shared the land with whites, until they were overrun by them.
South America and Africa were overrun almost immediately.
The protection detail, they held them off for a while but they were overrun.
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