Sentence examples for overfly from inspiring English sources
The word "overfly" is an acceptable word in English and can be used in written English
It is an alternate spelling of the verb "overfly" which means to pass over something by flying higher than normal. Example sentence: The pilot had to overfly the restricted airspace to avoid the thunderstorm ahead.
verb
To fly over something.
- My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
"They seem focused on wild prey – I've seen them overfly a whole field of lambs and go for a greylag goose or snatch a rabbit caught by a buzzard".
Large flocks of white storks overfly the city.
Britain's worst-ever airshow accident, in which 31 people were killed when a De Havilland prototype plunged into the crowd at Farnborough in 1952, led to a radical overhaul of safety, including the introduction of the rule that aircraft must never overfly spectators.
Israeli officials have claimed privately in the past that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye if Israeli warplanes needed to overfly its territory to strike at Iranian targets, although the Saudis are said to be keen for Israel to revive the stalled negotiations over a Palestinian state.
The captain planned to overfly the area at an altitude well above the height perceived as potentially dangerous.
We want to overfly New York".
I sense an extrusion, noodle-like, of a mood of ambulatory viewership from the hundreds of Chelsea art galleries that the park overflies.
No bombing that I've heard, but lots of their whooshing overflies.
NEW YORK — Here's an intriguing nugget, given Turkey's recent decision to close its airspace to Israeli military planes: When Israel attacked a covert Syrian nuclear reactor on Sept. 6, 2007, its bombers overflew Turkey.
When a Chinese military surveillance plane overflew the islands two weeks ago, Japan scrambled fighter jets in response.
But the dispute between China and Japan in the East China Sea took another harrowing turn last week when a Chinese plane overflew the islands and Japan scrambled some fighter jets in response.
