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Example sentences for "overlap"

Lexicographically close words:
overjoyed; overladen; overlaid; overlain; overland; overlapped; overlapping; overlaps; overlay; overlaying
  1. Especially should such a population be found when the two extreme types are adaptational forms and the region of overlap is a region of intermediate conditions.

  2. But in the levels at which they overlap there is no intermediate population, and only occasional intermediate individuals.

  3. The surrounding hills are of sandstone formation, with large boulders of a bluish colour that overlap them.

  4. This thickness is made up, in considerable part, by the adherent bases of old stalks; the stalks being perfectly continuous with the root-stock, and so much crowded as to overlap each other.

  5. The two images overlap at O, and produce white by their mixture.

  6. A spectrum is pure in which the colours do not overlap each other.

  7. But, as the apertures come closer to each other, that is to say, as the tin-foil between the apertures vanishes, the images overlap more and more.

  8. This leaves a frame of paper, the inner edges of which will slightly overlap the edges of the plate.

  9. If the edges have been properly pared, the thickness where they overlap should not exceed the thickness of the frame paper.

  10. The overlap 4 is then turned over, and the back folded, as at C.

  11. Mending vellum is done in much the same way as mending paper, excepting that a little greater overlap must be left.

  12. It is well to leave a little greater overlap at the edges of the page.

  13. Sometimes both feet are affected with varus, so that their points form an acute angle with the leg; or approach so nearly as to touch, or even overlap one another.

  14. Unless this be attended to, the skin will overlap the puncture in the vessel, and thus the stream will be completely obstructed, or at least the blood will not come away so smartly as at first.

  15. If the operator intend to shut the cavity as soon as the fluid has been discharged, the integuments are drawn upwards previously to making the incision, in order that they may afterwards overlap the wound.

  16. The conjoined breadth of the splints should be sufficient to embrace the limb almost entirely; some space being left, so that when the swelling subsides, they may neither meet, and consequently lie loose, nor overlap each other.

  17. In this form of box coupling the ends of the shafts overlap within the box.

  18. The butt straps where they overlap are forged so as to fit one another as shown, and thus form a close joint.

  19. Two plates or pieces to be riveted together have holes punched or drilled in them in such a manner that one may be made to overlap the other so that the holes in the one may be opposite the holes in the other.

  20. Where the ranges of the two species overlap in western Washington they do not interbreed so far as is known, and are somewhat different in their ecology, bendiri being a lowland, and palustris being a montane, species.

  21. Illustration] They are not so long as the wings of the grasshopper, but they overlap on top.

  22. See, they open, and fasten themselves open, like the wing covers of the grasshopper; and when they are at rest they overlap like the wings of the grasshopper.

  23. The spirals overlap each other, and increase in diameter towards the top.

  24. The shuttle slides in the race, and is of such length as to overlap the opening, so that it may pass smoothly from one section of the shuttlerace to the other.

  25. The upper beds are seen to overlap the basaltic streams on which the town stands.

  26. In both legs of one specimen, the insertion does not overlap the insertion of M.

  27. In one instance, the insertion does not overlap the insertion of M.

  28. Figure 22 shows this range to overlap broadly with the temperature range of active turtles and the means of the two groups are close to each other.

  29. Home ranges of turtles of all ages and sexes overlap broadly.

  30. There is no defined or visible water shed; a succession of low irregular ridges, divided by swampy flats, extends from coast to coast, and the sources of the streams running into either overlap in a most puzzling manner.

  31. Finally, the whole upper part of the sheaf will become horizontally recumbent; and as the uppermost folds will be those experiencing the greatest effects of the continued displacement, the déferlement or overlap must necessarily arise.

  32. The folds have been overthrown and drawn out; those which lay originally most to the south have become the uppermost; and, experiencing the maximum amount of displacement, overlap those lying beneath.

  33. Instead of keeping an unbroken line to receive the attack, they stationed their left wing at same distance from the center so as to overlap the Roman right, and their right wing in column ahead, so as to overlap the Roman left.

  34. The values have been adjusted to account for overlap resulting from surface flow recharge of groundwater sources.

  35. Imbricate or Imbricated, in which the outer parts cover or overlap the inner so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof; whence the name.

  36. The pieces of the calyx or the corolla either overlap each other in the bud, or they do not.

  37. When the pieces overlap in the bud, it is in one of two ways; either every piece has one edge in and one edge out, or some pieces are wholly outside and others wholly inside.

  38. Obvolute (in the bud), when the margins of one piece or leaf alternately overlap those of the opposite one.

  39. Seen from the under surface to show the overlap of the feathers.

  40. Drawing from a painting of a Hawk at Karnak, to show the overlap of the wing feathers.

  41. All the beautiful reds and blues, yellows and greens which comprise the brilliant livery of these insects are seen, under the microscope, as hundreds of minute scales which overlap one another like tiles on a roof.

  42. In the shark family, however, the scales are often relatively wide apart, they do not overlap but are imbedded separately in the skin.

  43. In such a case, unless the secondary is closed through a condenser, it is almost essential, in order to produce rotation, to make the primary and secondary coils overlap each other more or less.

  44. Again to improve, the secondary coil is made to partly overlap the primary, so that it cannot free itself from a strong inductive action of the latter, repel its lines as it may.

  45. The boundaries of the northern zone coincide in the main with the northern limit of the equatorial zone; but they overlap the latter at different points.

  46. Now referring to Commission Exhibit 801, which is the actual card, do the numbers overlap or extend to the borders of the margin at all?


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overlap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.