overhead
Example Sentences
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The crane was being used to build an overhead railway that is part of a China-backed project to link Bangkok with neighbouring Laos, where a Chinese-built high-speed line is already running to south-western China.
From BBC
Openreach – which runs the UK's digital network - said the outage was due to "damaged" overhead lines, with "extra work" required due to the remote location.
From BBC
Ropes course guests must be at least 4 feet tall, able to reach 70 inches straight up with your arm fully extended overhead, and weigh less than 275 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times
On that overcast morning with the F-150, Hummel stood on his tiptoes and reached both arms overhead into the tight crevices under the pickup.
“You’re spending so much staff overhead and work trying to fight them and appeal to them and justify why we should get paid,” he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
