Example Sentences

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“Unscheduled drone overflies can present a distraction and potential accidents to employees who operate heavy machinery,” McClure said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2022

“The advantage offered by a hypersonic offense is that it overflies air defenses as we understand them today, and it underflies our missile defenses. It goes into the gap between air defense and missile defense.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 10, 2020

I sense an extrusion, noodle-like, of a mood of ambulatory viewership from the hundreds of Chelsea art galleries that the park overflies.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2014

Its purpose: to beam messages to Moscow via the Soviet satellite "Horizon" that overflies Western Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Lowell said, indeed, that it "overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle."

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald