Sentence examples for to overfly from inspiring English sources
verb
To fly over something.
- My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
We want to overfly New York".
This could involve allowing US war planes to launch missions from Britain or allowing US aircraft to overfly the UK.
The captain planned to overfly the area at an altitude well above the height perceived as potentially dangerous.
If the missile was intended to overfly Japan, it must have been designed to cause a strong reaction.
Later he said France and Portugal had reconsidered and had agreed to allow Morales' plane to overfly, but that Italy and Spain were still refusing.
Mr. Chávez, an ardent nationalist, has irritated American officials by refusing to allow their anti-narcotics flights to overfly his nation.
The aerial search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight has been hampered by refusal from Indonesia to let planes overfly their territory.
In resolution 757, the Council also called on states to "deny permission to any aircraft to take off, land in or overfly their territory if it is destined to land in or had taken off from the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", setting the precedent for later anti-air measures.
From Singapore to London, I may overfly both.
For example, in late January a Somali-Canadian citizen was forced off a flight from Canada to Europe because it would overfly U.S. airspace.
They depart their wintering grounds across Ireland in May and overfly Iceland and Greenland en route to Canada.
