Sentence examples for overleap from inspiring English sources

The word 'overleap' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a intransitive verb to mean "to leap or jump over something". For example: "The deer overleaped the fence and continued running."

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overleap

verb

To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.

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American slaveholders desperately feared that Haiti's fires of revolt would overleap those few hundred miles of sea and inflame their own human chattel.

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No! the swelling flood of human life rises up to the topmost height of all its ancient barriers way must be found for it, or it will overleap them all!Yes!—the world is on the eve of a stupendous social change.

"Tax avoidance; financial regulation; university fees – on that you overleaped anything we'd done".

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher gives a performance of uncanny exactitude and command that overleaps the bounds of mimicry: despite a face encrusted with prosthetics and make-up, Streep somehow conveys through outward presentation (clothes, hair, voice) the inward drive of her personality.

"He overleaps the bounds," Shelley writes of the Poet in "Alastor," and his own poetry lives in a perpetual overreaching.

The philosophical sound-world he created for them — which overleaped the present tense to link the past and the future — was the basis for inspired solos and group improvisations that helped to redefine modern jazz.

He overleaped two generations to become a director of our times.

The disproportion stokes amazement at the way the world works and, overleaping the particulars of the story, giddily induces a general sense of wonder.

In both its intensely energized, nearly unhinged visual inventiveness and its apocalyptic tone, "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" is the work of an artist overleaping his material constraints and going out with a grand flourish — though, of course, Dwan didn't intend to go out: he was unable to get financing for another film, but lived until 1981.

When the madness was over, the Chinese awoke to discover that far from overleaping the West, they were "economically destitute and culturally barren".

Persecuted in the orphan age, she at least understands that education will equip her to be independent; interrogated by Orson Welles, cast as the thundery-tempered Rochester, she thanks him for treating her as an equal and he wonders at her courage in "overleaping the obstacles of custom".

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