overlap
verb (used with object)
to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
was overlapping
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past progressiveof overlap.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Lendl appreciated the coincidence that “Garden Party” was overlapping with the shindig in the Garden.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2010
Gifford and I patrolled the boundaries of our claim and made due protest when it became evident that anybody was overlapping us.
From Branded by Francis Lynde
The bend was of short reach; and, from the time I caught sight of the descending steamer, I could scarcely have counted two hundred till she had met and was overlapping the Sultana.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
Meanwhile the bows were getting dangerously near the stern of the vessel ahead, while the ship astern was overlapping the port quarter.
From The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie
And up above, Great Britain was overlapping our claims to the valley of the Columbia and even part of this Missouri Valley.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
