"overtake" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

overtake verbo

overtake + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 6
overtake Brazil • overtake one's record • overtake Japan • overtake China • overtake Britain • ...
overtake + preposición
Kolokacji: 10
overtake in • overtake with • overtake on • overtake at • overtaken by • ...
overtake + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 10
quickly overtake • eventually overtake • finally overtake • rapidly overtake • easily overtake • ...
  • However, inevitably a report of this nature is rapidly overtaken by events.
  • It is no wonder that the developing world is rapidly overtaking you.
  • Some digital products are rapidly overtaking the conventional ones.
  • By the 1850s, the new technology of railroads was rapidly overtaking the canal systems in many areas; it provided access to additional places.
  • We were rapidly overtaking a bus which was indeed thundering along in the very centre of the narrow road.
  • Nestor rubbed at his eyes: exhaustion was rapidly overtaking him.
  • A police car was rapidly overtaking the terrorists, scattering traffic as drivers pulled aside to let it pass.
  • We role-reverse quite naturally, as you might imagine with people whose children are rapidly overtaking them in the social maturity stakes.
  • And he doggedly maintained his sixty-four as the other car rapidly overtook them, passing on their left.
  • It rapidly overtook them, passing overhead just as Fox Island came into view a mile and a half away.
5. slowly overtake = wolno wyprzedź slowly overtake
6. swiftly overtake = prędko wyprzedź swiftly overtake
(2) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2

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