Sentence examples for overlies from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of overlie
It added, more intriguingly, that rainforests had entered the "global economy".Iwokrama is part of the largest expanse of undisturbed rainforest in the world, which overlies the Guiana Shield.
It overlies the truncated and strongly faulted coal-bearing Pennsylvanian sequence (the Pennsylvanian Subperiod extended from about 318 million to 299 million years ago), which is considered to be the main source of the gas.
Geophysical methods also are used in certain geologic-engineering applications, as in determining the depth of alluvial fill that overlies bedrock, which is an important factor in the construction of highways and large buildings.
The Rhuddanian Stage overlies the Hirnantian Stage of the Ordovician System and precedes the Aeronian Stage.
The Beaufort Series is part of the Karoo System, and it overlies strata of the Ecca Series and underlies rocks of the Stormberg Series.
The Carnian Stage underlies the Norian Stage of the Upper Triassic Series and overlies the Ladinian Stage of the Middle Triassic Series.
The Norian Stage underlies the Rhaetian Stage of the Upper Triassic Series and overlies the Carnian Stage of the Upper Triassic Series.
I remained overly cautious, and even as our child grew up and started to put two and two together, I was conservative in anything I said, lest I should be in contempt of court.
For much of its first hour, Mad Dogs US seems overly preoccupied with underlining the tension between its leads in thick marker pen, making it seem less like a high-octane thriller and more like a sulky stag night.
Simon O'Connell, the executive director of Mercy Corps Europe, states that "both NGOs and journalists have been guilty of an overly-simplistic portrayal of people who are caught in crisis or poverty and both groups need to get better at telling that story".
I've overheard conversations at academic gatherings in which female colleagues have been described as "power-dressing" – coded language used to accuse a woman of asserting herself in overly-ambitious ways.
