overhead

Example Sentences

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“We have overhead assets that have been surveilling the area, so there’s some idea what the surface looks like.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Tierney's cross was swept home by Maeda and was soon followed by his piece-de-resistance, the overhead kick that nobody saw coming, Butland most of all.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

“You cannot run 135 vessels a day, the prewar baseline, through a narrow guided lane that depends on continuous overhead air defense,” she said.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

With a helicopter circling overhead, police in armored vehicles rolled up to the Sunshine Motel in downtown San Bernardino and jumped out with assault rifles at the ready.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026

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

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone