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Example sentences for "overarched"

Lexicographically close words:
overabundance; overactive; overall; overalled; overalls; overarches; overarching; overawe; overawed; overawing
  1. The streets meander in and out, and up and down, overarched and balconied, but very clean.

  2. It loves to be alone--inaccessible ledges, chasms where winds combat, or moist caverns overarched near thundering falls, are the places that it seeks.

  3. There, as it overarched him, he launched his body forward and shot through the transparent green, emerging beyond the white smother with a thrill and a laugh of sheer physical delight.

  4. But she believed--she could not help believing--in an awful Justice overarching all human life with its law, as it overarched the very stars in heaven.

  5. Now she could read ironically the courtship of man and maid, dallying by river-paths, beside running water, overarched by boughs that had protected a thousand such courtships.

  6. I remember the grand trees which encircled Bootle Hall and overarched Marsh Lane; here dwelt in sylvan retreats the Mathers, the Birches, and the Tyrers.

  7. The luxuriant groves of the tropics, the serene skies which overarched her head, the gentle zephyrs which breathed through orange groves, all were congenial with her pensive spirit.

  8. The throne, which was hung with crimson velvet, was overarched with a canopy of the same rich material.

  9. They were passing a low, wide farmhouse, gray from want of paint, with a shabby barn and sheds attached, all overarched by tall elms.

  10. Out of this tunnel you emerge into a picturesque alley of rock, with smooth high walls overarched with mountain-ashes.

  11. Down past the church, from the westward hills, comes a lane that in any but the best of weather must be a mere mountain torrent, paved with the naked rock and overarched by ancient yews.

  12. A winding pathway, overarched by beech trees and ancestral oaks, meanders through the park, and leads us down to a low stone bridge, where we pause awhile to enjoy the charming view of Pitchford Hall, which our artist has portrayed.

  13. He pointed to a serpentine walk, overarched by laurustinus, and they had proceeded some yards before he spoke again.

  14. Slowly he rode along the venerable aisle of elms that had overarched his childish head in the sunny morning of a quickly clouded life, and as he reached the gate, which Edna held open, he dismounted.

  15. A glowing orange sky overarched an orange ocean, which slowly became in turn ruby, and rose, and violet, and pearly gray, powdered with a few dim stars.

  16. It was most interesting to see a bird whose characteristic haunts, at least in autumn and winter, are boundless stretches of wind-swept ocean, thus disporting itself in a brawling mountain stream overarched by trees.

  17. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, staff behind them, pursued a span-wide bridle path, overarched by dogwood and Judas tree.

  18. Out of a wood road, a misty opening overarched by tall and misty trees, came two or three horsemen, the foremost of whom rode up to the battery.

  19. It was a retired residence, approached by an avenue overarched by lofty trees and bordered by flowering shrubs.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overarched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    incumbent; lapping; shingled; superincumbent