"A wave of panic overtook me, and I grabbed the blanket and pulled it from him," she said.
He steadied himself as a wave of dizziness overtook him.
An uncharacteristic and unexpected wave of emotion had overtaken him.
But with a roar of rushing water, a tidal wave overtakes us, and the boat goes over.
I turned; a second huge wave was overtaking us.
She hugged herself as a wave of the shivers overtook her.
A wave of darkness was overtaking him, a great wall of nothing sucking him in.
Board and rider must be moving shoreward at a good rate before the wave overtakes them.
However, the great wave that rolled over the sinking land overtook her, and she drowned before reaching the summit.
When that wave overtakes us, there will be no stopping us.