overleap

Example Sentences

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“But there are more significant hurdles,” she says: hurdles modern medicine hasn’t found a way to consistently overleap quite yet.

From Time • Nov. 30, 2016

"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.

From Time Magazine Archive

Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the loyal wave rolls up as if it would overleap its barrier, the crest.

From The Battle of Gettysburg by Haskell, Frank Aretas

I wondered if she meant to emancipate "ladies" merely, or if her principles could possibly overleap her birthright of caste?

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson