overrun - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • avoid: In the first case designing writing tools to help authors avoid overruns.

Object

  • brake: Front hitch, all four wheels have auto-reverse overrun brakes.
  • ball: The Burnley right back tried to shepherd Lewis out of play, as he had appeared to overrun the ball slightly.
  • cost: The cost overrun on the scheme is expected to be less than £ 20,000.
  • device: Vehicle Technology Caravans Overrun Devices Standard Spring Cylinder Most AL-KO overrun devices supplied to the caravan market are fitted with a standard spring cylinder.

Adjective modifier

  • massive: Firstly the history of high-tech government schemes is one of massive cost overruns coupled with equally massive logistical and technical failures.
  • huge: Unfortunately, failing public sector IT projects are no longer the exception and huge cost overruns can be confidently predicted.

Noun used with modifier

  • buffer: This isn't really any different from the problems we saw with buffer overruns in the from line permitting execution of arbitrary code.
  • cost: In contrast, cost overruns under PFI are on average 170 per cent from outline to full business case.
  • budget: It is the tenant who has to pay for budget overruns.

Preposition: in

  • midfield: Wednesday, overrun in midfield, caught out Steve Coppell's side in the 26th minute.

Preposition: with

  • mice--: I had rather my studio were overrun with multicolored mice-- " She stopped with free game palm software something almost like a sob.
  • weed: Is it bearing fruit, or is it overrun with weeds?
  • tourist: Hence they aren't as overrun with tourists as Dunn's.

Preposition: by

  • tourist: Always fancied visiting, but fear it will be a cheap cash-in overrun by fat tourists.
  • army: The smaller nations of the Middle East, rejoicing over their deliverance from Assyria, soon found themselves overrun by the armies of Babylon.

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