Meanings of overrun the country in English

These rebels are growing by the thousands; they overrun the country like ants.

He could overrun the country, but he made no conquests.

Are the French to land, and overrun the country?

They used to overrun the country in great bands, and brooked no interference with their business.

And now he poured into my astonished ears the amazing story that had overrun the country-side.

Yet they overrun the country like an army of ghouls, and the country does not want them.

After this the Romans divided, in order that many detachments might overrun the country in separate places at one time.

Rattlesnakes, buffalo, lions, wildcats no more overrun the country, and why is this relation of "protector" still claimed?

Sumut, the ant (formica), the multitudes of which overrun the country, and its varieties are not less extraordinary than its numbers.

The French might have to land, as a matter of form; but not to overrun the country, only to secure British liberties and justice.

They can overrun the country, and, until the Pennsylvanians arrive, we are next to nothing in point of opposition to so large a force.

William Hague is in northern Iraq for talks with Kurdish leaders in an effort to rally opposition to Isis extremists threatening to overrun the country.

And in order to obtain by force what they had refused to purchase, they sent troops to plunder and overrun the country of the Lucchese.

In a short time, the immense number of rabbits that began to overrun the country furnished food for reflection, as well as for the table.

We have been flying low, and watching the cavalry overrunning the country.

Now they're just plumb overrunning the country.