OVERHEAD in a Sentence
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65 example sentences for OVERHEAD, such as:
1. The sky overhead was of a fairy blue.
2. It was dark now and the sliver of a new moon could be seen overhead.
3. The firelight flickered on the hewn logs that supported the thatch overhead.
4. Back inside his room, he turned on the overhead fan and the air conditioner.
5. The vultures flying overhead presage the discovery of the corpse in the desert.
2. It was dark now and the sliver of a new moon could be seen overhead.
3. The firelight flickered on the hewn logs that supported the thatch overhead.
4. Back inside his room, he turned on the overhead fan and the air conditioner.
5. The vultures flying overhead presage the discovery of the corpse in the desert.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of OVERHEAD
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overhead
ad. above your head; in the sky
n. the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1 The effect produced on Frome was rather of a complete absence of atmosphere, as though nothing less tenuous than ether intervened between the white earth under his feet and the metallic dome overhead.
2 The dark cedars on either side of the graveled drive met in an arch overhead, turning the long avenue into a dim tunnel.
3 Suffocating under feather pillows while death screamed overhead, Scarlett silently cursed Melanie for keeping her from the safer regions below stairs.
4 The bright glare of morning sunlight streaming through the trees overhead awakened Scarlett.
5 Now all that mattered was food enough to keep off starvation, clothing enough to prevent freezing and a roof overhead which did not leak too much.
6 A cold wind was blowing stiffly and the scudding clouds overhead were the deep gray of slate when Scarlett and Mammy stepped from the train in Atlanta the next afternoon.
7 Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.
8 Up the dim street she fled, her head down, her heart hammering, the night air wet on her lips, the trees overhead menacing.
9 Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.
10 At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the same instant a volley of thunder peals rolled overhead.
11 The firelight flickered on the hewn logs that supported the thatch overhead.
12 She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with the checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead.
13 They spread in vast clouds overhead, writhing, curling; then, uniting in one giant river, they streamed away down the sky, stretching a black pall as far as the eye could reach.
14 The sky overhead was of a fairy blue.
15 He stared for a while at the leaves overhead, moving in a heraldic wind of the day.
Example Sentence:
1 Watching the weight lifter heave the barbell to shoulder height and then boost it overhead, we marveled at his prodigious strength.
2 The vultures flying overhead presage the discovery of the corpse in the desert.
3 In the Airplane movies, every flight turns into a debacle, with passengers and crew members collapsing, and baggage popping out of the overhead bins.
4 Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead.
5 In July, a trainload of Metro-North passengers was stranded for about an hour without water or air conditioning near Westport, after overhead wires fell.
6 It was dark now and the sliver of a new moon could be seen overhead.
7 Back inside his room, he turned on the overhead fan and the air conditioner.
8 The air grew thick with dust and cordite as Leopard 2 tanks raced across the scrubby landscape, with howitzer fire providing cover and helicopters circling overhead.