overflow
verb (used without object)
to flow or run over, as rivers or water.
had overflown
Example Sentences
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Air Force Chief of Staff Mordechai Hod insisted later at a press conference that the Libyan plane had overflown "one of the most sensitive security areas" in Sinai.
From Time Magazine Archive
The morning of his speech, he had overflown the Willamette National Forest, its mountaintops scalped by clear-cutting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Large masses of rock had been detached from the mountains, and obstructed the course of streams which had overflown their banks or changed their course.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum
Streams had overflown their banks, the water had stagnated, rank foliage had arisen, and giant trees rotted in swamp and slime.
From The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
