overhead door

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noun

a door that rotates on a horizontal axis and is supported horizontally when openSometimes shortened to: overhead

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Words nearby overhead door

overharvest, overhasty, overhaul, overhead, overhead camshaft, overhead door, overhead projector, overhead railway, overheads, overhead-valve engine, overhear

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How to use overhead door in a sentence

A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.
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Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.
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The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.
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They eye the door anxiously, convinced that at any moment, a Pakistani or Iranian intelligence officer will come barging in.
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Gurley came out of stairwell door as the two cops approached.
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Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.
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Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
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Then the door opened, the portiere was swept aside, and Anselme announced "Monsieur de Garnache."
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