Example Sentences

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The morning of his speech, he had overflown the Willamette National Forest, its mountaintops scalped by clear-cutting.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

And then the wet courses on her cheeks told how the fountain of her soul had overflown.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)