overhead

Example Sentences

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For more than a century, people had come to swim and camp under the firs that towered hundreds of feet overhead.

From Literature

Planes continually rumble overhead in Walter Thompson-Hernández’s “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” shot on location at Nickerson Gardens in Watts under the flight path to LAX.

From Los Angeles Times

“No boat can get close; the glimourie pushes them away, so gently that they never notice. In the same way planes can’t fly overhead, but they never know it. It’s uncharted and unchartable.”

From Literature

The window blind is pulled shut, and the bare bulb overhead is painted a dimming blue, giving an unearthly tinge to all beneath it.

From Literature

When flying it is overhead, someone on the ground might not be able to hear it.

From Los Angeles Times